British magazine Times Higher Education (THE) released its first Asia-Pacific University Ranking on Tuesday to reflect the region’s growing strength in the higher education sector. Of the 243 universities featured on the list, institutions in China and Singapore dominated four of the top five places.
Australia’s University of Melbourne ranked third.
Japan was the most represented nation, with 69 universities featured on the THE list. China ranked second with 52 universities. Other countries and territories with a strong presence in the ranking are Australia (35 universities), Taiwan (26), South Korea (25) and Thailand (nine).
“The Asia-Pacific region is the most dynamic in the higher-education world. It is already larger than Europe and the UK in terms of student numbers and research spending,” said Simon Marginson, director of the Centre for Global Higher Education at the UCL (University College London) Institute of Education. “And one day it will become as important as the US and Canada.”
The 2017 THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings assess world-class universities in terms of teaching, research, citations, international collaboration and knowledge transfer, using the same performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but with special modifications to reflect better the characteristics of universities in the region.
Universities from 38 nations and territories in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania were examined.
It is easy to dismiss Learning by rote as not creative, but nevertheless it can also produce the high ranking grades,
For Science, Technology, and Business, I believe that schools in countries which are currently followed the Metric System will be very attractive to all international students while countries that want status quo of Standard System (lb, mi, inc, etc) will still be ok but cannot sell their technological products abroad. Companies in these few leftover countries must establish their production facilities abroad in order to reach the international/global market. Eventually, the metric system schools will takeover the top spots!
So, of the top ten: 2 from Singapore, 2 from Hong Kong, 3 from Australia. 7 out of 10 for the former British Empire!
Such lists are only as good as the metrics used in them.
Remember somebody in the distant past Said" knowledge is power".
I do not see any evidence that the bloody English gave any consideration to educating the peoples of their colonies.
Clarke Ken You could always do some research. Look at the histories of the universities in the THES listing that this article is discussing.