Global Innovation Index: A Guide for Students

“Think Different”: Innovate your future! Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, adopted the campaign “Think Different” in 1997 to re-brand the public image of Apple as the world’s leading pioneer in technological innovation – and it seemed to work pretty well! The concept of the campaign is mainly about innovation. However, to innovate, you need to

Employability Employability Employability

“Education Education Education” said Tony Blair There may have been a time when education automatically led to a job, when there was a general thought that if you had a degree you had higher chances of getting a job. Growing up my father’s advice was “Get a degree then you could do whatever you want,

Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education: Uses and Misuses

Ranking organisations must be as transparent as possible about the data and methods they use to compare universities, Ben Sowter, the head of the QS Intelligence Unit which produces the company’s rankings, says in a new book published by Unesco. The book, entitled Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education: Uses and Misuses, showcases the views

OECD Education at a Glance 2013: London Launch

Relatively high tuition fees paid through income-contingent loans like those in the UK represent the best hope of maintaining well-funded and accessible higher education, the author of the OECD’s annual report on education has claimed. Speaking at the London launch of Education at a Glance 2013, Dr Andreas Schleicher said the salary premium enjoyed by

QS Rankings Used in Global Innovation Index

Governments all over the world think that innovation is the key to future economic success. But how do you make an economy innovative? Three organisations – the World Intellectual Property Organisation, part of the UN system, as well as Cornell University and French business school INSEAD – have published a new analysis of the factors