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Is it time to rethink university rankings?

The PIE News

Rankings remain highly influential, a vital marketing tool for schools, and genuinely useful in many ways but are also increasingly disliked by academics, mistrusted by deans, and seen as less reliable than ever by students. So how did rankings become so important, what issues are they facing, and where do they go from here?

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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 Current tenure-track faculty members are up to 25 more times likely to have a parent with a Ph.D.

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Acumen: Indian students branching out from big four study destinations

The PIE News

Over 70% agreed engineering and IT, business, and health sciences dominate course choices among Indian students with nursing, humanities, and arts accounting for a moderate share of applicants. But major policy updates in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have left agents divided on the potential impact on students from India.

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Global Networks Amplify Local Controversies

GlobalHigherEd

What are the implications for universities and their governing boards/trustees/councils of becoming increasingly embedded in global networks? There are many implications, including the ability to be interconnected with flows of knowledgeable people (aka human capital), ideas, money, technologies, and so on.

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IE University in Spain Europe’s most diverse – QS

The PIE News

European universities with the continent’s highest diversity of international students have been identified in the inaugural QS Europe University Rankings , with institutions in Spain, Poland and Switzerland taking the top three spots.

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How Technology is Making HR in HigherEd More Efficient

PeopleAdmin

HigherEd Human Resources teams cover a lot of ground. HigherEd human resources teams also play a big role in retention and career development, which indirectly impacts the recruitment and hiring process because it determines how long staff and faculty will stay and therefore, how often a position will be open at an institution.