International student recruitment in the UK is no longer a one-way street, with more and more UK-based students expressing an interesting in studying at some level in other countries. According to research from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the 2013/2014 academic year saw over 28,000 UK students undertaking studies overseas. This record-high level of

Are universities in the UK doomed to become playgrounds solely of the rich and those willing to take on significant debt? These were the fears cited by both current and prospective students, as they reacted to the news that maintenance grants are to be replaced by loans – beginning in the academic year, 2016/17 –

In 2014, the inaugural  Wharton – QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards, the “Oscars for pedagogical innovators” in Higher Education, saw over 420 projects participating from 54 countries with two overall winning initiatives sharing the prize fund of US$ 50,000. The global competition aims at identifying the most innovative pedagogies to enhance learning of higher education

Martin Juno, in charge of the Benchmarking Service in London, told Tamara Sredojevic about the advantages of using this new platform to access the dataset. Martin – We are delivering a service called the Academic Reputation Dataset to the institutions, for which we set up a new online analytics platform. But before I explain what the

I’m pleased to announce that the third edition of the QS University Rankings: BRICS, which compares the Top 200 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is now live on TopUniversities.com. Why a BRICS University Rankings?  The five BRICS countries represent over 2.9  billion people, or approximately 40% of the world population; One

A survey carried out annually by Universum has found that Google is number one of the top companies to work for in the US among business students, closely followed by Walt Disney and Apple. Elsewhere in the top employers ranking, Nike shot up four places to fourth, Goldman Sachs climbed from ninth to seventh and the