Un nuevo ranking, esta vez de sistemas nacionales de educación superior, acaba de aparecer, producido por la Universidad de Melbourne, la más reputada universidad australiana, para la agrupación de 21 universidades de investigación del mundo agrupadas en Universitas21. Una conclusión interesante de este estudio, cuya metodología se describe en el Informe completo que se puede obtener más abajo, dice lo siguiente:
There is a strong relationship between resources and output: of the top eight countries in output, only the UK and Australia are not in the top eight for resources. There is some evidence of groupings of neighbouring countries. The four Nordic countries are all in the top seven; four east Asian countries (Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Taiwan and Korea) are clustered together at ranks 18 to 22; Eastern European countries (Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia) are together in the middle range; and the Latin American countries (Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) cluster together. It would seem that while many countries may feel they cannot hope to match the higher education system in the United States, they do want to match that of their neighbours.
Chile aparece bien situado en el conexto tanto latinoamericano como mundial si se considera su nivel de desarrollo e ingreso per capita.
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Medición realizada por la U. de Melbourne: Ranking ubica al sistema de educación superior chileno como líder en Latinoamérica
Estudio fue encargado por Universitas 21, grupo que reúne a planteles de investigación, al que se sumó la U. Católica.
Alejandra Muñoz C. , El Mercurio, 12 de mayo de 2012
El lugar 37 -entre 48 países evaluados- ocupa Chile en el ranking de sistemas de educación superior elaborado por la Universidad de Melbourne.
La medición consideró factores como el gasto en educación, el ambiente del sistema, la conexión de estudiantes y académicos con sus pares del resto del mundo y la investigación que genera la educación superior.
Pese a no estar en los primeros lugares, Chile supera a Argentina, Brasil y México, las otras naciones latinoamericanas consideradas en la evaluación.
El área más destacada para el país fue conectividad con el exterior (puesto 23), área en la que se evaluó el número de estudiantes extranjeros en el sistema de educación superior y las investigaciones en las que hay cooperación con académicos o planteles de otros países.
Apreciación
El estudio fue encargado por Universitas 21, agrupación de universidades dedicadas a la investigación en la que acaba de ser aceptada la Universidad Católica. El rector de esa casa de estudios, Ignacio Sánchez, participó en la presentación de los resultados en Suecia.
“Uno de los aspectos más bajos es el número de publicaciones, que depende del bajo aporte económico a investigación que entrega el país. Este es un desafío importante a superar, en especial cuando la calidad de lo que se publica es muy buena”, explica Sánchez.
El ministro de Educación, Harald Beyer, señala que entre los factores que inciden en la baja posición de Chile en el área de investigación es que se considera la producción total. Tomando en cuenta que tienen más investigadores, Argentina y Brasil producen más. Pese al buen resultado a nivel regional, la autoridad subrayó que las cifras “no son satisfactorias”.

U21 Rankings of National Higher Education Systems 2012
Universitas21, 10 May 2012
U21 has published new research into national education systems gives the first ranking of countries which are the ‘best’ at providing higher education.
The Universitas 21 ranking of national higher education systems has been developed to highlight the importance of creating a strong environment for higher education institutions to contribute to economic and cultural development, provide a high-quality experience for students and help institutions compete for overseas applicants.
Research authors at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, looked at the most recent data from 48 countries and territories across 20 different measures. The measures are grouped under four headings: resources (investment by government and private sector), output (research and its impact, as well as the production of an educated workforce which meets labour market needs), connectivity (international networks and collaboration which protects a system against insularity) and environment (government policy and regulation, diversity and participation opportunities). It also takes population size into account and produces some interesting results.
Overall, the top five countries, nominally providing the ‘best’ higher education were found to be the United States, Sweden, Canada, Finland and Denmark. However, broken down into the smaller sections, it was interesting to see that the US, traditionally seen as a country with one of the strongest education systems, did not always hit the top spot. Government funding of higher education as a percentage of GDP is highest in Finland, Norway and Denmark. Taking private expenditure into account changed this significantly: on that measure funding is highest in the United States, South Korea, Canada and Chile, unsurprising, given the structure in these counties.
Some other interesting findings showed that investment in Research and Development is highest in Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Unsurprisingly, the United States dominates the total output of research journal articles, but when viewed as a percentage of articles per head of population, Sweden is top of the ranking.
The highest participation rates in higher education are in South Korea, Finland, Greece, United States, Canada and Slovenia. The countries with the largest proportion of workers with a higher level education are Russia, Canada, Israel, United States, Ukraine, Taiwan and Australia. Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Norway and Japan have the highest ratio of researchers in the economy.
International students form the highest proportions of total student numbers in Australia, Singapore, Austria, United Kingdom and Switzerland, yet international research collaboration is most prominent in Indonesia, Switzerland, Hong Kong SAR, Denmark, Belgium and Austria. China, India. Japan and the United States rank in the bottom 25 per cent of countries for international research collaboration. In all but eight countries at least 50 per cent of students were female, the lowest being in India and Korea. In only five countries were there at least 50 per cent female staff; the lowest being in Japan and Iran.
The full report can be downloaded below, or click on the link below for further details, data and breakdown of results.
www.universitas21.com/link/U21rankings