“Irish universities have dramatically improved their positions in their world rankings this year. UCD, the country’s biggest university, has broken into the top 100 for the first time, moving from 108th place to 89th place this year The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings are seen as a prestigious annual barometer of a university’s performance. Partly helped by increased investment in research, Trinity has improved on its stellar performance in 2009, going up from 49th to 43rd place …” (more)
[John Walshe, Independent, 8 October]