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Rankings & Evaluations Symposium: QS University Rankings and Evaluations as Performance Management Tools
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Ben Sowter at Going Global 2012
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
Sir Patrick Stewart at Going Global 2012
As usual, Going Global 2012 was plenty of networking opportunities, debates and interesting insights on the higher education industry.
One of the highlights of the event was the closing speech delivered by Sir Patrick Stewart, best known for his performances as Captain Picard and Professor Xavier. But the X-Men and Star Trek star has personal interests beyond acting: he is the Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield (UK). Also, he is Professor of Performing Arts at the University and regularly delivers sessions for drama students.
During the final session of Going Global, the renowned actor offered truly inspiring words, praising the internationalisation of higher education as a genuine path to peace and global prosperity.
QS Best Student Cities
The first global ranking of student cities. Find the methodology here.
Public spending and university quality: is there a link?
by Martin Juno
Broadly speaking, higher education systems range from those relaying almost entirely on public funding to those mainly supported by private sources. Of course, there are a variety of options between those extreme points and most countries try mixed schemes.
Which system provides the better outcomes in terms of university teaching and research quality?
An interesting exercise that may provide a general answer to this question is to compare the relative performance of institutions operating in different funding environments. In order to conduct this analysis we used the higher education finance indicators provided by UNESCO (available here) , establishing four range groups (or quartiles) of public spending on tertiary education as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the countries . Then the top 400 QS World University Rankings (QSWUR) institutions – available on topuniversities.com- were distributed among each spending level quartile and the average scores for every group were calculated.
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