Cloud computing – the idea of combining computing resources online – is still a fairly new concept. The term was first introduced in 2006 by Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, and has gone on to become the standard in modern-day computing. It can come with its own set of challenges and limitations, but even so,

Skype is becoming more and more integrated into the world of professional recruitment; it makes sense for higher education institutions to follow suit when it comes to international student recruitment. Commonly-used, free technologies like Skype can help reduce international student recruitment costs, keeping the ROI nice and high. It’s also a lot cheaper for prospective

While massive open online courses (MOOCs) have garnered a great deal of attention over the past few years, their effectiveness – and what role they can serve in higher education – has been called into question in some quarters. Data provided by course platforms Coursera and edX has shown that, while over 25 million people

The QS World University Rankings by Faculty provide a more accurate comparison with last year’s results than our overall QS World University Rankings does. They are not affected by the methodological change that has caused extra volatility in the main rankings – this being the change in how citations are measured. Instead, the high level

The rankings season has started in earnest with the publication of the QS World University Rankings, and in this edition of the Higher Education World we examine the results and the impact of our biggest methodological change for a decade. We also survey the results of the rankings by subject area, which are published alongside

The twelfth edition of the QS World University Rankings is now online. We pride ourselves on keeping the Rankings methodology as stable as possible, so that the results provide a genuine year-on-year comparison of the world’s top universities. But this year we have made a few improvements, one of them especially important, to our methodology.

Innovation is one of the themes that many of those seeking broader global rankings of universities would like to be able to include. The most comprehensive attempt to capture this slightly elusive quality was published last week by Thomson Reuters. The company used ten metrics to measure universities’ success in innovation, and produced a global

Despite the improved methodology described elsewhere in this issue of Higher Education World, the 2015/16 QS World University Ranking agree with last year’s on one thing: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the world’s top university. It has near-perfect scores on five of our six measures, and comes 62nd in the world on the other,