This sums up the motivation behind the new Building Universities’ Reputation conference, launched last week at Spain’s Universidad de Navarra. A global forum for universities and related bodies – including rankings organisations – the conference will be held every two years, with plans for related research projects in the interim. Some 300 delegates and 48

US universities have registered by far the strongest growth in international student numbers over the past decade, according to a new report by the British Council. An analysis of enrolments in the four main host countries for international students shows that the strongest growth in 2013-14 was in Australia. But two years of sharp decline

UK higher education got one of its biggest talking points in years late last December, with the release of the Research Excellence Framework. This massive assessment of university research performance graded over 100 institutions across the full range of academic inquiry, and will be used to settle the distribution of hundreds of millions of pounds

The fifth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject is now imminent. We will report fully on the results in a forthcoming edition of Higher Education World. But we are already sure that these rankings will be the most influential examination ever compiled of university achievement at subject level. Throughout their existence, the