Universities in China and Singapore dominated the top five places of the first Asia-Pacific University Ranking 2017 published by the London-based magazine, Times Higher Education. According to THE, the rankings reflect the region's growing strength in the higher education sector. Peking University took second place, while Tsinghua University is in fourth. The National University of Singapore topped the rankings. The only university to appear in the top five outside of Asia is the University of Melbourne in third place and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore rounds up the top five. Two higher education institutions from Hong Kong also feature in the top 10. This includes University of Hong Kong at sixth place followed by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in seventh. The ranking features just over 200 universities from 13 different nations. Simon Marginson, director of the Centre for Global Higher Education at the University College London Institute of Education, told Times Higher Education: "The Asia-Pacific region is the most dynamic in the higher education world. In terms of students and research and development activity, it is larger than Europe and the UK, and one day it will become as important as the US and Canada." While Japan is the most-represented country on the list with 69 universities, China is in second place with 52 institutions. Other countries with a strong presence include Australia, South Korea and Thailand. Marginson said: "In China, higher education enrolments grew astonishingly in the first decade of this century, and research outputs continue to rise by 15 percent a year. China now has the largest number of students and the largest number of academics of any nation in the world." He noted that the achievements from the world's second-largest economy in the physical sciences and engineering are clear. "If the indicator is the number of published papers in the top 10 percent of their research field by citation rate, then in mathematics and complex computing China has surpassed the US. China has six of the world's top 15 universities in these fields, while the US has five," he said. The universities are judged in five areas - teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income. Contact the writer at [email protected]fabric wristbands ukcustom rubber bandscustom fidgetrubber bracelets custom cheapcustom rubber band braceletswristband creationbatman wristband
BEIJING -- Nobel laureates Andre K. Geim and James Fraser Stoddart, together with other 14 scientists, have been elected as new foreign academicians at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), one of China's top think tanks. CAS published the list of 77 newly-elected academicians, 61 Chinese and 16 foreigners, on its website Tuesday. There are now 800 Chinese academicians and 92 foreign academicians at CAS. CAS membership is China's highest title in the field of science, and a lifelong honor. New members are recruited every two years. CAS and the Chinese Academy of Engineering are the country's top two think tanks to advise government and industry on key scientific and technological issues. The Chinese Academy of Engineering also announced its list of newly-elected academicians Monday, which included Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.
