Wed.Jun 08, 2022

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Rankings released: QS World University Rankings 2023 now live!

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It’s one of the highlights of the QS calendar – the QS World University Rankings 2023 are now live! We are incredibly excited to be launching this year’s rankings in-person alongside data experts and education leaders from across the globe at the QS EduData Summit 2022, being held at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room in New York. This edition is the largest QS World University Rankings to date, with over 1,400 institutions from across the world, representing a 9% increase on the number of

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Ethical Issues of the NCAA Transfer Portal

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Is it a Good Thing for Collegiate Athletics? The Transfer Portal was created as a way for student athletes to transfer from one NCAA school to another and not have to sit out one year. It seems to have created a ‘monster,’ in the sense that competition for student athletes can be intense with outside parties dangling payments to athletes in the form of being able to market their name, image, and likeness (NIL) thereby cashing in after they transfer.

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How organisations should improve data synthesis to avoid being ‘data rich’ but ‘information poor’

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Organisations often “get stuck” with data by gathering and sorting so many data points that it becomes easy to miss the opportunities to create valuable information, says Dr Paul Thurman, Professor of Management and Analytics at Columbia University. Dr Thurman joined keynote speakers from Google, Intel, IBM and MIT as well as data strategists, Chief Data Officers and data scientists from all over the world at the QS EduData Summit 2022, held on 8-10 June at the United Nations Delegat

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