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Rankings are sometimes used by governments in allocating funds or determining academic mission, and by the universities to benchmark themselves against others.
In this context, we have compiled results for several universities to benchmark KAUST against other similar institutions, as presented in Figure 4. Thanks to the library repository, the central CRIS system and our internal analysts, those results have allowed the senior management to understand the quality of the research performed at KAUST as well as its impact at the international level.
This paper describes the Global Research Benchmarking System GRBSS) which satisfies these requirements by providing fine-grained objective data to internationally benchmark university research performance in over 250 areas of Science and Technology.
The task force, made up of more than 250 faculty, staff, students, former students, local residents, and various private- and public-sector representatives, devoted more than two years to examining all aspects of the university and studying benchmark institutions before unveiling the plan, dubbed Vision 2020, in 1999.
Such an approach would contribute to better orientation of scientific policies within and between countries and encourage national and international collaborations around the most productive sites in certain fields of research, rather than using bibliometric analysis primarily as a tool to benchmark universities or countries.
However that is not the whole story: if it were, then the university would hit its benchmark of taking 70% of students from state schools.
Starting in 2016, National Taiwan University, Taiwan's most prestigious university, has set the benchmark at the CEFR C1 level for its English major students.
Work is now in progress on similar benchmarks for university governing bodies and publicly-appointed bodies.
However, at least two foundations run by women outperformed the 21.3percentt benchmark for universities in that same time period.
The fourth Guardian University Awards once again recognised excellence in Britain's best universities and set the benchmark for higher education excellence.
Most of the universities require that their students pass an English test equivalent to the CEFR B1 level upon graduation, whereas the top five universities set their graduation benchmark at the CEFR B2 level.
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