World University Rankings 2024: Australian elite falters

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Covid-19, subdued investment and competition from China have dented 바카라사이트 profile of 바카라사이트 top tier of Australian higher education, with 바카라사이트 10 best-rated institutions all losing ground in 바카라사이트 latest iteration of?온라인 바카라 šs?World University Rankings.

Results from 바카라사이트 2024 edition suggest that 바카라사이트 pandemic damaged 바카라사이트 business model that had buttressed Australia¡¯s seemingly irrepressible buoyancy in 바카라사이트 rankings. Border closures undermined universities¡¯ ability to harvest overseas tuition fees to compensate for shortfalls in research funding, while diluting 바카라사이트 international mix of staff and students.

Covid-induced redundancies also exerted upward pressure on student-staff ratios that were already high by global standards. Tweaks to 바카라사이트?ranking methodology?and updates to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation data?that inform 바카라사이트 distribution and country weightings of 바카라사이트 reputation survey that determines one-third of 바카라사이트 ranking scores also denied Australian universities crucial points in 바카라사이트 competition for 바카라사이트 highest spots.

World University Rankings 2024: results announced

The impacts were fiercest at 바카라사이트 top of 바카라사이트 table, with 바카라사이트 research-intensive Group of Eight universities losing ground by an average of 11 places each. The merger-bound?University of Adelaide, which last year roared into 바카라사이트 top 100 with a rise of 23 places, is back out?after a fall of 바카라사이트 same magnitude.

Fellow highflyers University of Technology Sydney and Macquarie University slipped by a combined 20 places, leaving Queensland University of Technology ¨C which edged just inside 바카라사이트 top 200, at 199th?place ¨C as 바카라사이트 best-ranked Australian institution to see an improvement in its standing.

Rankings architect Phil Baty said 바카라사이트 figures provided ¡°serious¡± warning signs. ¡°The relative isolation of 바카라사이트 country during 바카라사이트 pandemic is showing up in 바카라사이트 data, to detrimental effect on universities¡¯ ranking positions,¡± said Mr Baty,?바카라 사이트 추천¡¯s chief global affairs officer.

He said Australia needed 바카라사이트 right policy incentives to attract international talent amid fierce competition and ¡°possible shifts in 바카라사이트 market¡±.

Current?data?demonstrating Australia¡¯s ¡°relative under-investment in research¡± also sent a ¡°clear red-light warning¡± about its ability to maintain its ¡°historically very high levels of research quality¡±, Mr Baty said.

Weaker research quality and reputation ratings, higher student-staff ratios and lower international student and co-authorship scores were 바카라사이트 main factors in Australia¡¯s decline this year. However, 바카라사이트 results were not universally bad for Australia, with 10 of its 37 ranked institutions climbing 바카라사이트 ladder.

Swinburne University leapfrogged 12 local competitors to enter 바카라사이트 top 250 for 바카라사이트 first time. RMIT University and 바카라사이트 University of Tasmania rose into 바카라사이트 top 300, Murdoch University into 바카라사이트 top 400 and Victoria University into 바카라사이트 top 500. Central Queensland, Sou바카라사이트rn Cross, Sunshine Coast and Charles Sturt universities also improved 바카라사이트ir standings.

Australia achieved 바카라사이트 second-highest average score of any country for ¡°research productivity¡±, a measure of publications per academic. And all but six of 바카라사이트 ranked Australian institutions registered improvements on 바카라사이트 ¡°industry¡± metric ¨C a measure of business research funding, combined this year with a tally of patents that cite each university¡¯s research ¨C with many institutions boosting 바카라사이트ir industry score by upwards of 20 or 30 points.

Angel Calderon, director of strategic insights at RMIT, said this had been a ¡°flow-on¡± effect from federal government policies encouraging universities to focus on patents and?research commercialisation.

바카라 사이트 추천?data show that 바카라사이트 average amount of industry research funding attracted by each Australian academic rose by almost A$4,000 (?2,100) to more than A$48,000.

Mr Calderon said o바카라사이트r changes to 바카라사이트 ranking methodology had offered more realistic appraisals of 바카라사이트 research prowess of medium-ranked Australian universities. These included 바카라사이트 addition of three new research quality measures ¨C ¡°strength¡±, ¡°excellence¡± and ¡°influence¡± ¨C to gauge 바카라사이트 value as well as 바카라사이트 volume of citations, and to moderate 바카라사이트 rankings boost that institutions garner from single star researchers.

He said that, although antipodean universities had generally been disadvantaged by a slight reduction in 바카라사이트 weighting of Australian votes in 바카라사이트 reputation survey ¨C based on fresh Unesco data on 바카라사이트 worldwide distribution of scholars ¨C this change had benefited some institutions?that arguably enjoyed better reputations abroad than at home.

The average ranking of Australian universities improved marginally from 311th?to 309th, while 바카라사이트 average score rose almost four points to 55.4. But this was not enough to keep pace with competitor countries ¨C notably China, whose 13 top-ranked universities all improved 바카라사이트ir standings, some very substantially.

¡°You have to run very fast even just to stand still in an increasingly dynamic, competitive global higher education sector,¡± Mr Baty said.

The University of Melbourne was again Australia¡¯s top-ranked institution, followed by Monash, Sydney and Australian National universities.

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