Ellie Bothwell

London

Global Rankings Editor at Times Higher Education (THE)

Rankings editor @timeshighered @THEWorldUniRank covering university rankings, strategy and leadership / Views own

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Articles

Asia University Rankings 2025: China’s formula for success

1 month ago | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

One of the most striking things about the performance of China’s universities in recent years is the consistency of their progress. In the suite of Times Higher Education’s university rankings, it is typical for nations’ fortunes to wax and wane over time.
More than 2,500 universities submit data for Impact Rankings

Jan 29, 2025 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

More than 2,500 universities from across the world have submitted data to Times Higher Education to participate in the Impact Rankings 2025. The new milestone represents a year-on-year increase of 18 per cent, after more than 2,000 institutions were ranked for the first time in 2024. Asia is now home to more than half of the submissions to the rankings, after 1,311 institutions from the continent took part this year, a 25 per cent increase compared with last year.
WUR and ISR 2026: time to submit your data

Jan 13, 2025 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

The data portal for the next Times Higher Education World University Rankings and Interdisciplinary Science Rankings (ISR) is now open, with institutions from across the world invited to take part. Universities can now submit data to be included in the two league tables, both of which will be published in autumn 2025. The portal will be open for more than two months, closing on 30 March.
Arab University Rankings 2024: a region on the rise

Dec 3, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

When Times Higher Education launched the Arab University Rankings three years ago, universities in the prosperous Gulf states were the leading lights. But this year, institutions outside that region are showing strong signs of progress, proving that they can shine just as brightly as many Saudi and Emirati counterparts, despite facing tough economic, social and political challenges.
nurturing excellence

Oct 8, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

“Our goal is to find students from the broadest swath of society who are excelling where they are and bring them in and give them the tools to learn how to think, not what to think, to learn to have dialogue across differences, to learn to get help when they need it and to think about their own mental health.
Global university leadership churn ‘reflects unstable world’

Oct 3, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

It is the year of elections, with more than half of the world’s population going to the polls. The UK, Mexico and Pakistan are among the countries with new leaders, while the US is bound for a change in president next month. A similar level of leadership churn has been under way in global higher education.
Talking leadership: Sian Beilock on encouraging difficult conversations

Oct 2, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

Sian Beilock is not interested in a comfortable life. The president of Dartmouth College wants students and academics to have difficult conversations and experts to push back against her ideas. Since taking the helm at the Ivy League institution last summer, Beilock has launched an initiative called Dartmouth Dialogues, aimed at facilitating conversations that “bridge political and personal divides”.
Talking leadership: Ed Brinksma on the ‘obsession’ with deep tech

Sep 22, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

Ed Brinksma has become something of a dab hand at leading a university through turbulent times. The outgoing president of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) took over the institution in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, in September 2020, when the campus was shut. Three months later, the rector magnificus stepped down, and the post went unfilled for nine months. The following year, Brinksma was hit with the first of three student occupations by OccupyEUR.
Record number of universities submit data for World University Rankings

Jun 26, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

An unprecedented number of universities have participated in Times Higher Education’s data collection for the World University Rankings this year. A record 2,858 institutions submitted data between January and March, a 7 per cent increase compared with last year. The universities are based across 133 countries/regions, up from 127 in 2023.
Impact Rankings 2024: universities make trustworthy stewards

Jun 11, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Ellie Bothwell

Locale determines the mission of many universities, and the Impact Rankings recognise how such diversity and community-mindedness helps to further progress towards the SDGs One of the virtues of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings is its recognition of the differing missions and strengths of universities.