Another prominent international ranking, the PISA tests run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has shown a strong performance for Chinese education systems, including Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Each new international education ranking makes it clearer that American schools and continental European universities do not lack money, as unions claim, but need to hire better staff and be able to sack lousy teachers.
The Nikkei article quotes Mitsubishi Research Institute referencing a ranking of international competitiveness of university programs by the Swiss IMD Business School.
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Racing ahead of rivals like Temenos of Switzerland and Misys of the U.K., Flexcube snagged the top spot in the annual sales ranking by International Banking Systems, a U.K.-based industry publication, three years ago and has hung on there.
Next year Transparency International will publish an updated ranking of big global companies, highlighting their use of offshore finance and their perceived willingness to pay bribes.
Too many kids are going to be ranking too low on international standards on math and science.
Last year, more than fifty-seven million Chinese people went abroad, ranking China third worldwide in international tourism.
The ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, Tom Lantos, describes this as a defining moment in bilateral relations.
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So when Airport Council International (ACI) recently announced its ranking of the best airports in 2012, smart travellers paid attention.
Rep. Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, agreed, citing his "horror and disgust" with what is depicted on the tapes.
Interestingly, this point was underscored by a foray made recently by Rep. Howard Berman of California, the influential third-ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee.
To Westerners who see China's math students regularly ranking near the top in international comparisons and Chinese mathematicians populating the math faculties at the finest overseas universities, Yau's crusade seems like overkill.
Universitas 21, an international group of universities, claimed the new ranking was the first to compare the effectiveness of national higher education systems.
Since the Sharifs came to power last year, Shahbaz points out, Pakistan's ranking in the leading survey of international corruption has dropped from second place to 15th.
In December, China fell to the 80th spot out of 176 countries rated for their perceived levels of corruption on the annual global ranking by Berlin-based NGO Transparency International.
The Taliban said the attack killed 35 people, including high-ranking Indian Embassy officials, as well as international and Afghan police officers.
The cricketers in the present case were from Pakistan, and although they were playing at the highest level of the game with international reputations, their earnings were little more than those of middle ranking company executives.
The Bush meeting with the small group of House Republicans came a day after the president met with the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House International Relations Committee.
Mr Le Drian said Malian forces had also taken prisoners including high-ranking militants who would "have to answer to Malian courts and international justice".
On December 9, International Anti-Corruption Day, Myanmar missed a timely opportunity to counter its recent ranking when it failed to ratify the U.N.
Roque Gonzalez, a former high-ranking member of the MRTA, is charged with forming part of an international terrorist group with ties to Chavistas and the FARC with the mission of bringing down the current Peruvian regime.
As the ranking man on the ground for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), his hands are also closest to the purse strings, since his State Department branch is funding and contracting out much of the work.
Such concerns have outraged Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security subcommittee charged with overseeing U.S. international broadcasts.
Let's look at the U.S. Over the past few years, traditional measures of corruption, such as the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, have placed the U.S. among the least corrupt nations in the world, currently ranking No. 18 among 180 rated countries.
Privacy International, an independent monitor, says Britain is the worst country in the European Union for respecting privacy, ranking it alongside Russia and Singapore internationally.
Although the international war crimes tribunal has handed down more than two dozen indictments, up to now it had only one low ranking suspect in custody.
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