The recent Business of People report, international benchmarking reviews and case studies from the Research Excellence Framework demonstrate its many strengths.
Whether it is at the Olympic Games or in an international benchmarking exercise such as this, Australians like to rate near the top of the pack, not in 20th spot.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: "While there will always be academic debate over methodology, international benchmarking is vitally important to ensure we are competing with the world's best-performing education systems".
However, he said that Heathrow was starting to see the benefits of a decade of heavy investment culminating in the opening of Terminal 2, with international benchmarking now putting them ahead of Amsterdam's Schiphol for the first time as the best European hub in terms of customer service scores.
This hampers international benchmarking and comparisons, and clinical research.
Such platforms, which also employ specific tools (e.g. international benchmarking exercises, S&T policy reviews, etc).
Singapore students boast stellar performance at international benchmarking studies such as PISA and TIMSS.
We start by reviewing the use of previous international benchmarking work.
Kaartinen et al. [60] provided a comprehensive review of tree detection methods based on the international benchmarking study "Tree Extraction".
It is only possible to explicitly quantify the health and economic outcomes of their use and to set up a platform for national and international benchmarking.
Data for Italy are contrasted and compared to those for Australia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Mexico and Poland in order to support an international benchmarking.
