We are pleased to announce that this year’s World 100 Annual Conference will be hosted by the University of Birmingham on 10 & 11 October

Geopolitical tensions and freedom of speech issues are testing universities the world over. To successfully manage their reputations, they must avoid getting distracted by all the noise, says Mark Sudbury

The gathering of more than 100 leaders at Abu Dhabi University for the inaugural THE MENA Reputation Forum produced a day of debate and sharing, adding a particular Arab World flavour to the global discussion about higher education reputation.

The results, announced on 24 January, reflect the important role of global reputation, with data from THE Academic Reputation Survey focusing on votes from outside a university’s home country representing 25% of the total score in this ranking.

Mark Sudbury, Head of The World 100, shares his thoughts on how reputation played out for him as a parent during the process of supporting his son applying to study at university (in the UK).

Mark Sudbury explores the movers and shakers in the 2022 THE Asia Rankings, including the performance of The World 100's Asian members

Head of World 100 Mark Sudbury discusses some of the trends in global higher education reputation emerging from discussions at recent conferences, helping to set the scene for our conference in October

With the rankings still in their relative infancy, there was a change in the methodology for 2022 to include SDG 17 ‘partnerships for the goals, and, as a result, we have a lot more movement in the rankings compared to the more established world rankings tables. We look at a few of the key trends and observations of this year’s release and explore what the future may hold for them

Mark Sudbury, Head of World 100 and Reputation, looks at the 2022 impact rankings, overall trends and how World 100 members have performed.

April 2022 saw the debut of Time Higher Education’s new event series for marcomms professionals, Hashtag HigherEd. The conference, hosted by Warwick Business School at the iconic Shard in London, brought together speakers and delegates from both university and other sectors to discuss issues such as branding, social media, sustainability, recruitment, quality of education and international students.

Read the articles submitted and published by World 100 Reputation Network members for content on THE Student

The general public was one of the focuses of the World 100 Network annual research project, just published, which set out to understand whether the high profile of academic faculty during the pandemic has led to institution reputational benefit.