Big Data and Analysis in Higher Education

With so much data available, it’s almost impossible to track it all effectively. Universities need to ask themselves what it is that they really want to know about their students; this will then influence how best to track, capture and utilise their data. Simple details such as age, location, country of origin and field of

New Rankings: QS Graduate Employability Rankings

The QS Intelligence Unit is proud to announce the future release of a new ranking focusing on employability outcomes for the graduates. Leonardo Silveira, in charge of the project in London, told Tamara Sredojevic about the QS Graduate Employability Rankings: What is the QS Graduate Employability Rankings? The QS Graduate Employability Rankings comes from an

Top 5 Mistakes Universities Make During UCAS Clearing

With one of the most hectic weeks in higher education admissions behind us, now is a great time to look back on what universities can learn from their mistakes, as well as the mistakes of others, during UCAS Clearing. No one university is perfect, despite what their marketing collateral may say, and even the biggest

Universities Get Ready for 2015/16 Intake of Motivated Students

The 2015 A-level results indicate that more students have taken up Maths, English, Biology with a sharp increase in those that have taken Computing. UCAS University admissions says that there are 409’000 places this year with 13,415 more female entrants than in 2014 widening the gender gap. Transferwise, the international peer to peer money transfer