The winners of this year’s Onassis Prizes were announced at a ceremony held at London’s Mansion House on the 8th of May. The awards are given to academics who have done work in the fields of finance, international trade and shipping, whose work would not otherwise be given a platform for global recognition. The Onassis
Only a few days remain for academics to take part in the world’s biggest survey of expert opinion on the top global universities. With employers also casting their votes, the first stage of work on the 2012 QS World University Rankings is well under way. More than 33,000 academics and almost 17,000 employers took part in
Leading universities around the world are lining up to bid for perhaps the most desirable site yet reserved for open competition to host a branch campus. The Hong Kong government has received a large number of enquiries for the 25-acre Queen’s Hill site once occupied by the British garrison. The successful university may be named
In 2011, the University of Cambridge came top in the World University Rankings. And according to the Scopus database used to supply the citations data used in the Rankings, it produced 32,900 journal articles and other scholarly outputs in that year. But run your eye down the rankings to 400th slot, the last university before
Ben Sowter took part in the ‘Talking Heads’ sessions at Going Global 2012. These sessions included video clips highlighting unique ideas and case studies from the world of international education
Serbia, the most populous of the states of the former Yugoslavia, became a candidate for EU membership in October 2011 and regards itself as a western-facing democracy. Like Serbia’s other institutions, its universities are now facing up to the changes that this new status will involve. Serbia’s population of about eight million is served by
The first global ranking of student cities, published last month by QS, caused a stir around the world, reaching more than 500,000 people on Twitter and attracting more than 1 million hits on the topuniversities.com website. Paris edged out London as the top city, benefiting from a concentration of leading universities with low study costs.
If you have followed the QS World University Rankings in the past you’ll be accustomed to seeing a table dominated by US universities, so the top ten of QS Best Student Cities 2012 may make surprising reading. Paris tops the list, with five other European cities making the top ten: London, Vienna, Zurich, Berlin and