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
Can you think of any activity on Earth whose budget is growing by 75 per cent in the current economic climate? Meet Horizon 2020, the European Union’s research programme. It is the successor to the previous seven Framework programmes for research, and runs from 2014 to 2020. Its importance for anyone concerned with universities is