b'2.4. Failure of Southern and Eastern Europe in higher education Is there a way the EU, especially its Southernglobal economy in which knowledge and and Eastern European members, can escapeskills are highly valued. the predicament of low growth and high unemployment?Unfortunately, the weakness of some Southern and Eastern European economies One solution could lie in education: theis mirrored by their poor systems of higher EU has a reputation for having a skillededucation.workforce. In the 21st century, we live in a Table 11 The Times World Ranking of Southern anduniversities Eastern EuropeanWorld RankingNumber of Universities1-10011-20021-1000101-2004Source: The Times World Ranking 2017These findings from the Times Highercentric? We therefore looked at two other Education World University Rankingssets of rankings from the USA to see if there are startling.16Perhaps the Times Higheris any material difference.Education Supplement is being Anglo-Table 12Table 13 US News Global Ranking of Southern and Eastern European universitiesQS WorldRanking of Southern and Eastern European universities World rankingNumber of universitiesWorld rankingNumber of universities1-100 1-100011-200 101-200621-1001 Source: QS World Ranking 2017101-2007Source: US News Global Ranking 201735'