Open University ranks No 1 European university in Google’s most searched universities
Posted in Governance and administration on September 30th, 2014 by steve
“Google has revealed that The Open University has been ranked as the No 1 European university and No 3 in the world in its worldwide search rankings. The OU was the only university in the top 20 with a base in Ireland. It has 2,500 Irish students currently registered on various courses and qualifications …” (more)
[Karina Corbett, Business and Leadership, 30 September]
“The University of Ulster has told staff it will have to make an immediate budget cut of £3.15m as a result of financial pressures at Stormont. That cut amounts to just under 4% of the university’s day-to-day costs …” (
“I was in Athens this past June, at an EU-sponsored conference on rankings, which included a very intriguing discussion about the use of reputation indicators that I thought I would share with you. Not all rankings have reputational indicators …” (
“Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has said that decisions need to be made about the future funding of higher education in Ireland. But she said she would await the report of an expert group set up by her predecessor Ruairi Quinn, which is due to issue its final findings by the end of 2015 …” (
“Today’s elite students are technically gifted but risk-averse and typically stressed, says former Yale professor William Deresiewicz. Former Yale professor William Deresiewicz has sparked a fiery debate in the US about the point of higher education …” (
