On 28 January 2014, Dr. Christina Yan Zhang, China Director of QS Intelligence Unit was invited to attend a major international conference in London with senior education leaders around the world to have a discussion on the future of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This conference is organised by The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education,
The Association of Graduate Recruiters(AGR) was founded in 1968. It is an employer-led membership organisation, whose goal it is to ensure that all member organisations can recruit and develop the best student talent for their needs and the needs of the UK economy. With a diverse network of over 700 members, they work closely with
A global university is a tough business to manage. Two of the world’s top research universities have just decided to make things simpler by using QS’s moveon software to run their international academic activities. The two are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, top in the 2013/14 World University Rankings, and KAIST, ranked at number 60.
The first global university rankings of 2014 will be published next week, when QS unveils the second edition of its top 50 universities under 50 years old. There is certain to be considerable movement in the upper reaches of the table because three of last year’s top 20 – Warwick, Lancaster and Macquarie – were
With partnerships becoming a key aspect of university strategy, elite institutions MIT Sloan School of Management and KAIST have chosen to adopt QS moveon, the market-leading partnership management software for universities and business schools, to better manage and evaluate the volume of partnership opportunities. Universities and business schools are in a race to sign up
The concept of the BRICS arouses strong emotions, and has been doing so since Jim O’Neill, then of Goldman Sachs, launched the term in 2001. You may well ask what sense it makes to group Brazil, India, China and Russia together as a single unit. They vary widely in population, culture and history, and nobody
The new BRICS ranking compiled by QS will play an important role in making Russia’s universities more internationally competitive, the country’s Education Minister said at the launch of the exercise in Moscow. Russia’s education ministry commissioned the ranking, which was the first bespoke comparison of universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Three
Université Paris-Dauphine, one of France top 20 best universities according to the 2013 QS World University Rankings® – ranked globally at 358 – has announced in early December 2013 it will launch a degree in London. The institution will enrol students that will complete a Bachelor’s degree in Economy and Management with classes of approximately