Rankings Watch

An overview of the final global ranking of the season, U.S. News & World Report's Best Global Universities 2019 and a focus on our members' performance

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Riding the Tiger – International Partnerships research published

W100 members recently received the final report of the 'Riding the Tiger: Enhancing the Role of Reputation in international partnerships' research project. The report reflects key findings that international partnerships provide great opportunities – often under-exploited at present – to build global profile; whilst also presenting a risk that they will turn around and bite you if partners suffer reputational damage.

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The Digital Approach Research Project 2017/2018: Resources and structures for online communications – Overall Findings

The World 100 Reputation Network set out to explore approaches to online communications at top global universities. The research explores budgets, teams, in-house capacity, outsourcing, approaches to monitoring and evaluating digital communications, policies and guidelines, internal training and more.

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The Digital Approach Research 2017/2018: Resources and structures for online communications – Executive Summary

The World 100 Reputation Network set out to explore approaches to online communications at top global universities. The research explores budgets, teams, in-house capacity, outsourcing, approaches to monitoring and evaluating digital communications, policies and guidelines, internal training and more.

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World 100 Tracker Symposium 2019

King’s College London was the suitably impressive venue for the 2019 W100 Tracker Symposium on 27th November with colleagues from member universities discussing how the tracker is being used and providing constructive feedback on enabling more effective data collection.

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International Partnerships: Protecting Reputation When Things Go Wrong

New research by the World 100 Reputation Network (W100) shows that most universities are not adequately preparing for the reputation risks associated with international partnerships.

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Riding the Tiger: Balancing Reputational Risk and Reward is Key to International Partnerships

New research by the World 100 Reputation Network shows that most universities are failing to fully exploit the opportunities for using strategic international partnerships to grow their global profile.

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Riding The Tiger Research 2018/2019: Enhancing the role of reputation in international partnerships – Full Report

Our 2018/2019 Research project aimed to answer some key questions around the role of reputation in international partnerships. Members can download the full report here.

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Riding The Tiger Research 2018/2019: Enhancing the role of reputation in international partnerships – Executive Summary

Our 2018/2019 Research project aimed to answer some key questions around the role of reputation in international partnerships. Members can download the executive summary here.

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A Reputation for Relevance – highlights from the Manchester conference

Nearly 100 leaders in reputation management at leading global universities in 12 countries gathered in Manchester for 3 days of intensive discussion, debate and networking in what has become the essential global forum for leaders in reputation management.

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Rankings Watch – reputation increasingly driving ranking performance

Universities with a strong focus on building reputation are winning the race for global recognition, according to analysis of data from the latest THE World University rankings released in mid-September 2019

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Brand new W100 Social Media Rankings now available

The brand new W100 Social Media Rankings are now available, providing a much more comprehensive view across a range of platforms than the previous Twitter Engagement Rank.

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