England is still searching for a trusted and independent body<\/a> to take on the role of assessing quality in English higher education.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s THE World University Rankings launch on 12 October.\u00a0 Next year\u2019s rankings will see some changes to the methodology. This blog<\/a> by THE\u2019s chief data officer, Duncan Ross, gives an early glimpse of what will be changing.<\/p>\n THE\u2019s Reputation Rankings launch on 16 November. Based on the largest invite-only survey that measures the prestige of universities in the eyes of the world\u2019s top academics, this year a record thirty-thousand scholars voted<\/a>.<\/p>\n The UK\u2019s Research Excellence Framework needs a \u201cfundamental rethink\u201d<\/a> to reflect how research systems work, according to the outgoing executive chair of Research England, David Sweeney.<\/p>\n A majority of UK students now say they would prefer a mix of on-site and online tuition, according to a major survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n UCU general secretary Jo Grady has told THE<\/a> she is confident the union will \u201cfar surpass\u201d the necessary turnout of 50 per cent to secure a mandate for further industrial action.<\/p>\n There are now cautious signs that China is beginning to open up to international students for the first time in more than two and half years, since coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan.\u00a0 Times Higher Education\u2019s (THE) Asia reporter Pola Lem has been assessing<\/a> the current state-of-play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quality England is still searching for a trusted and independent body to take on the role of assessing quality in English higher education. Rankings This year\u2019s THE World University Rankings launch on 12 October.\u00a0 Next year\u2019s rankings will see some...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rankings<\/h3>\n
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