Struggling with financing tuition fees? Spanish universities have launched a new scheme consisting in “adopting a student” by funding the tuition fees. Considered to be an emergency measure, Spanish universities are hoping this will be temporary. The aim is mostly to help students coming from low-income families, as there are more and more students tempted
More people are studying for a British degree outside the UK than within it. But how good a time are they having? A new initiative from the UK’s Quality Assurance Agency and the British Council (the soft power arm of the British government) is intended reassure overseas students of UK qualifications of the experience they
The Faculty Student and the Citations per Faculty indicators are two important components of the QS World University Rankings. They are proxies for the teaching quality and the research influence achieved by each evaluated university. The following scatter charts combine these two indicators, showing how institutions from different regions are performing. The horizontal axis represents
By John O’Leary The rankings season began in earnest last month with the publication of the Shanghai-based Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which showed the first change in its top ten for three years. Harvard topped the ranking, as it has since the ARWU was first published ten years ago. Stanford remained in second
What do the QS World University Rankings 2013/14 suggest has been the biggest change to global higher education since the crash of 2008? First, one thing has not changed: growth continues despite the international economic damage seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In 2009 there were just over 3.7 million students studying outside their
The tenth edition of the QS World University Rankings confirms the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the global leader in higher education. But perhaps more importantly, the data published this week demonstrate the global appetite for the exercise and its maturity. More academics and employers than ever have participated in the polling that is
Japan: Internationalisation key to Abeducation US: Lower Enrolment Changing Colleges Norway: Record International Students China: NYU Shanghai Opens Door
