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London - The University of Cape Town is the only university in South Africa to have made it onto the top 10 in the latest QS University rankings for the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is a British company specialising in education and study abroad.
"The acronym Brics has become standard shorthand for the idea that the world’s economic future is not in the hands of traditional players such as the US, Europe and Japan," said QS in a statement.
"However, to compete in a global scene these fast growing economies need world-class university systems."
The QS University Rankings for Brics countries compared the Top 200 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
It identified China as the most likely of the Brics nations to achieve its goal of developing world-class universities.
Chinese universities took six of the top 10 places, ahead of Brazil (2), Russia (1) and South Africa (1).
Russia with 53 institutions in the top 200 is second only to China (71).
Yet only seven Russian institutions make the top 50, with China (21), Brazil (10) and India (9).
"Riding the wave of the Chinese boom, in the first decade of the century Brazil experienced rapid growth, overtaking the UK as the world’s sixth largest economy in 2011," said QS.
"Yet the growth of the Brazilian higher education sector has not been without its teething problems. For one thing, even as government investment has increased, there have been widespread concerns over the efficiency with which funds are being administered."
Yet, as China and India have found out, quantity does not necessarily translate into impact.
Both China and India have vastly improved the research productivity of their leading universities in an attempt to drive innovation.
- Fin24
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is a British company specialising in education and study abroad.
"The acronym Brics has become standard shorthand for the idea that the world’s economic future is not in the hands of traditional players such as the US, Europe and Japan," said QS in a statement.
"However, to compete in a global scene these fast growing economies need world-class university systems."
The QS University Rankings for Brics countries compared the Top 200 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
It identified China as the most likely of the Brics nations to achieve its goal of developing world-class universities.
Chinese universities took six of the top 10 places, ahead of Brazil (2), Russia (1) and South Africa (1).
Russia with 53 institutions in the top 200 is second only to China (71).
Yet only seven Russian institutions make the top 50, with China (21), Brazil (10) and India (9).
"Riding the wave of the Chinese boom, in the first decade of the century Brazil experienced rapid growth, overtaking the UK as the world’s sixth largest economy in 2011," said QS.
"Yet the growth of the Brazilian higher education sector has not been without its teething problems. For one thing, even as government investment has increased, there have been widespread concerns over the efficiency with which funds are being administered."
Yet, as China and India have found out, quantity does not necessarily translate into impact.
Both China and India have vastly improved the research productivity of their leading universities in an attempt to drive innovation.
- Fin24
