Chinese higher education has experienced rapid growth since 1978. Particularly in the last ten years, China's higher education system has faced massive differentiation. To grasp and evaluate the magnitude of changes, the Shanghai Jiao Tong...

What do the holy grail and university rankings have in common? The very possession of them does not produce unbounded wealth. Departing from this metaphor, Andreas Schleicher engages in a fundamental critique of university rankings. As he points...

Higher education institutions can be classified according to the functions they perform, the number of students they accept and the type of education programmes they offer. Other conceivable characteristics according to which they can be grouped...

At the end of the fourth European Commission supported U-Map project this update report presents the progress that has been made in implementing U-Map. Initial reactions to U-Map have been very promising; representatives of participating...

This is the third and final report of a multi-year research project on the development of a European classification of higher education institutions funded by the European Commission. The first report Institutional Profiles (van Vught Bartelse et...