Phil Baty is an authority on international higher education policy and university performance and he leads on government partnerships and global affairs at Times Higher Education, the trusted data, insights and consultancy partner to universities, corporates and governments worldwide. With over 25 years in the sector, Phil: developed the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings and its derivative analyses (as rankings editor for over a decade between 2008 and 2019); he created the THE World Academic Summit and oversaw its expansion into the world’s preeminent series of university leadership and policy events; and he led the team that developed and launched the Global Sustainable Development Congress and the sector-leading “Digital Universities” international events series. Phil is also an award-winning journalist, a sought-after keynote speaker, media commentator and consultant.
The geopolitics of knowledge is shifting. The 19th annual edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, published on 12 October, demonstrates an accelerating trend: the...
A great “reckoning” is coming to universities around the world.
当外交界在政治方面遭遇诸多挑战时，由许多顶尖的国际化大学领导的知识外交，“可能是我们重建破碎世界，最后的也是最好的工具”。
The higher education sector is characterized by stark inequalities – as are many other sectors in our grossly unequal world. Harvard University’s endowment of $50 billion is larger than t...
While the diplomatic world faces many challenges on the political front, knowledge diplomacy, led by many top international universities, “may be our last and best tool for rebuilding a b...
当2022年泰晤士报高等教育世界大学艺术与人文学科排名公布时，这一排名结果似乎有些奇怪。历史学、哲学、表演艺术、语言学、文学、宗教学及建筑学等学科名列世界最佳大学榜首的是两所以科学、技术以及工程闻名于世的大学。斯坦福大学（Stanford University）位于美国硅谷的中心地带，其学生造就了谷歌、思科、惠普、雅虎和Netflix，现居于世界第一。紧随其后的则是位于美...
Something seemed quite strange when the results came in for the 2022 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for arts and humanities subjects. Topping the list of ...
牛津大学在全球研发新冠肺炎病毒疫苗的过程中处于领先地位，并在《泰晤士报》高等教育世界大学排名中连续第六年被评为世界第一，在此期间，全球对该病毒的研究热潮进一步推动了中国大陆大学在全球排名中的迅速上升。
The University of Oxford, which led the way in the global search for a Covid-19 vaccine, has been named the world’s number one university for a sixth consecutive year in the Times Higher ...
数据不会说谎：在连续几版的泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，西方国家一直在失势，而东方则在崛起。
The data does not lie: in successive editions of the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Western nations have been losing ground while the East rises.
The extraordinary potential of universities to make the world a better place has perhaps never been more clearly demonstrated than it has by the COVID-19 pandemic.
What are the essential ingredients needed to make a world-class university? As the editor of Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings for the past seven years, this is a questio...
