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29 août 2015

A Model of Innovation and Change: Improving Self-Service and Focusing on Growth

Evolllution Logo, click to return to homepageBy Nathan Relken - Evolllution. Back in 2009, BYU-Idaho was in the beginnings of expanding their online course offerings. As more courses and programs were offered online and the participation in these programs ballooned, the university quickly recognized the unique service efforts this initiative would require. Initial feedback was that online students were “lost,” and not sure where to go for help. More...

29 août 2015

QS invited to speak at Graduate Recruiters Network: Recruiting Masters Graduates in a Global Market

http://www.iu.qs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/qsiu_logo7.pngBy . Dr. Christina Yan Zhang, China Director, QS Intelligence Unit is invited to give a speech to a network of top recruiters in the UK on the latest trends of Masters Students Recruitment trends globally. More...

29 août 2015

New Rankings: QS Graduate Employability Rankings

http://www.iu.qs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/qsiu_logo7.pngBy . 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 extensive research project which has been running since October 2014. This project has aimed to design a new approach and methodology on employability in university rankings.
Following the research project, we are going to launch a first edition this November at the 11th QS-APPLE in Melbourne. As a pilot initiative, this new rankings will not at first alter the other QS University Rankings results. More...

29 août 2015

Newcastle’s ‘divestment’ is a chance for the world’s largest coal port to consider its future

The ConversationBy . The City of Newcastle council’s Tuesday night endorsement of an “environmentally and socially responsible” investment policy threw more mud than a pig wrestling competition at the country show. More...
29 août 2015

What human emotions do we really want of artificial intelligence?

The ConversationBy . Forget the Turing and Lovelace tests on artificial intelligence: I want to see a robot pass the Frampton Test. More...
29 août 2015

The up side of feeling down: new theory links neurotic thinking to creativity

The ConversationBy . Psychologists have advanced a new theory linking neurotic unhappiness and creativity, arguing that natural worriers may also have highly active imaginations and be more creative problem-solvers.
The theory, published today in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, builds on previously held views that neuroticism – one of the “big five” personality traits – may be linked to heightened threat perception, but aims to help explain why some people worry even when there is no threat present. More...
29 août 2015

Banks and government on warning

The ConversationBy . Regulators tend to talk in convoluted riddles, deliberately torturing the language such that one is able to read into their official statements almost anything one wants. Who can forget the patron saint of regulators. More...
29 août 2015

Should British universities worry about a lack of Nobel Prizes in the 21st century?

The ConversationBy  and . The top ten list of institutions around the world which have won the most Nobel Prizes this century does not contain a single British university. US institutions dominated the list, compiled by Times Higher Education, which was topped by Stanford, followed by Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley. But the UK was second place behind the US in terms of nationalities who have won the prize, with 12 British winners in the past 15 years. There have been 71 American laureates. More...
29 août 2015

Where will the next generation of Nobel Prize winners come from?

The ConversationBy . The US continues to dominate when it comes to Nobel Prizes, according to a new list of the academics and institutions that have won most of the prestigious accolades so far in the 21st century. American institutions and academics topped the list, put together by the magazine Times Higher Education (THE). More...
29 août 2015

Now universities can accept as many students as they want, will there be a free-for-all in clearing?

The ConversationBy . Another university admissions cycle is reaching its climax with A-level results envelopes opening, university places confirmed and the clearing process for those who did better or worse than they’d hoped kicking into action. Amid all this, the government is having a third go at creating a real market in higher education. More...
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