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By Brenda Masilela 
6h ago
Cape Town: The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been ranked as the best tertiary institution on the continent and 155th among the top 200 universities worldwide featured in the world university rankings.
Times Higher Education, a London-based weekly magazine that specifically reports on higher education news and topics, made the announcement in a statement issued on Wednesday.
This is not the first time that UCT has been among the best performing universities in the world. In July, it was ranked 220 in the 17th edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings report.
In terms of representation of the top 200, the United States dominates with 59 places, while the United Kingdom is next with 29, followed by Germany with 21.
Overall, European representation is in steady decline, losing nine spots in the past five years as a result of China, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong and Canada gaining positions.
“We have watched Asia rise in the world rankings for several years, but this year marks an important milestone, as mainland China’s Tsinghua University disrupts the traditional dominance of Western universities at the top of the table, entering the top 20 the first time, and as mainland China doubles its representation in the top 100, “said Phil Baty, Times Higher Education’s chief knowledge officer.
“This new classification provides clearer evidence of a shift in the balance of power in the global knowledge economy from established higher education systems in the west to those in parts of the east.”
Baty said this trend is likely to accelerate further as the coronavirus pandemic heralds a perfect storm of enormous challenges for primarily Western universities, particularly those in the US and the UK, which face the risk very real of losing significant international student talent, and therefore billions of dollars. in rates.
“While universities at the top of the table, with a long history of success and prestige, will be difficult to unseat, these factors, combined with the effects of a possible deep and long-lasting global recession and its likely impact on university funding levels , it could herald the beginning of a dramatic rebalancing of the global knowledge economy, “added Baty.
African News Agency (ANA)
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