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Is it time to rethink university rankings?

The PIE News

When MBA student Nitin Bishnoi decided he wanted to go to business school, there was no doubt where he would start his search: the rankings. They have become so embedded within higher education that the idea of not checking the rankings before choosing a degree seems outlandish. “As humans, we just love numbers, right?,

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How market shifts are impacting Chinese agencies

The PIE News

Costs include tax, venue, human resources, and promotions, with human resources and promotion being the most critical. While university rankings were once the primary determinant, factors such as career prospects, student experience, and the quality of life in the chosen city are now gaining greater importance.

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22% of Tenure-Track Professors Have a Parent With a Ph.D.

Inside Higher Ed

than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based from the University of Colorado at Boulder and current Twitter data scientist, wrote with her colleagues.

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Introducing three new technical master’s programs from leading universities on Coursera

Coursera blog

By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer at Coursera The demand to earn degrees online is here to stay. University leaders say, on average, 60% of students are more interested in online learning this year than last year. To begin classes in January, enroll between November 1st and December 15, 2023.

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Mission: Possible – how universities can reach their institutional ambitions

The PIE News

Data from Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital shows that the global population will rise to above nine billion in the next 25 years, with some two billion more learners in education by 2050. Some 90 UK institutions are in the QS World University Rankingssecond only to the US and 15 are in the global top 100.