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Is it time to rethink university rankings?

The PIE News

So how did rankings become so important, what issues are they facing, and where do they go from here? “As humans, we just love numbers, right?, When we see that a publication released their list of the top 100 universities, we say: Oh, cool, this college is here again that means they must be a really good school.

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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. In some cases, agents also find themselves competing with university marketing and recruitment teams who support students directly. ” Aggregators have existed in China for a while.

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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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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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Africa meets Europe

The PIE News

The Coimbra Group’s annual conference at the University of Cologne from May 31 to June 2 this year demonstrated the organisation’s ethos of global co-operation. Founded in 1985, the group comprises 41 European, high-ranking, comprehensive, civic universities.