Policy Exchange, an influential UK think tank, has suggested the government redistributes more than £500 million from university funds to further education colleges, in a report released this week. The report – Higher, Further, Faster, More: Improving higher level professional and technical education – begins with a quote taken from King’s College professor, Baroness Alison
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