Universities in Mainland Europe Go Head-to-Head with the UK

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The best universities in the UK are going head-to-head with rivals in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-16. Many UK institutions in the top 100 are ranked just one or two positions away from those in mainland Europe that offer study opportunities at a fraction of the cost. Times Higher Education https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/universities-mainland-europe-go-head-head-uk
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The top 20 Universities for Teaching

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China, Japan and Switzerland are tied as the third most represented countries in the top 20 universities for teaching, with one university each. The top 20 is dominated by US institutions, which take 13 spots. The UK trails behind with only four universities with top-20 teaching scores, and Australia’s institutions fail to make the cut.
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IREG Forum 7, Aalborg University – Introduction a new member: the ELTE!

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Prof. Fábri: "Rankings are media phenomenon of the postmodern mass democracy."  Mr. President, Dear Colleagues! I welcome you in name of Hungary’s oldest and most competitivness (based on ranking positions too) research university. It is a great honor to us that the we should be member of the International Ranking Expert Group – Observatory, one of the most important global organization of higher education. This membership offer for us a chance to learn about new viewpoints, methods, impacts of university rankings. I hope, you can also use results of our own research and experiments about the ranking-questions. My institution not only observes and evaluates it’s ranking positions, but also analyzes such results trough the work of our special research group established for this purpose. The most well-known Hungarian university ranking are also…
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