Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development awards scholarships to eight Indian students
Photo: An Announcement from the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD) at Somerville College, University of Oxford.
Oxford, UK. October 16, 2021 — The Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD) at Somerville College, University of Oxford, has awarded scholarships to eight Indian students. They will take their places at the University of Oxford in October 2021. The students will pursue research on India’s sustainable development topics ranging from solar cells and renewable energy to the role of diverse communities in shaping urban landscapes in South Asia.
Including the existing scholars, the OICSD cohort for the academic year 2021-22 has grown to 21 students - which is the largest cohort of scholars the Centre has supported since its inception in 2013.
Candidates are selected based on their academic merit and the alignment of their work with the Centre’s impact themes such as climate change, energy, cities, healthcare technology, biodiversity, and conservation, among others.
The Centre has funded the postgraduate studies of a total of 43 Indian students to date. Most of these have returned to India upon their graduation to work in law, governance, conservation, and social development, thereby carrying forward the Centre’s ambition of developing ‘brain gain’ for India.
This year, the Centre has awarded the prestigious Indira Gandhi scholarships to Snigdha Lal and Karthik Ganesh to pursue their DPhil research in Condensed Matter Physics and Inorganic Chemistry.
Snigdha Lal would research the fundamental properties of various solar cells. “I want to use my research to create the greatest impact in the field of clean energy, especially for countries such as India,” said Snigdha, who previously did her undergraduate studies in IIT-Bombay and master’s in chemical engineering at TU Delft, Netherlands.
The Indira Gandhi scholarships were instituted at the OICSD through a joint endowment by the Government of India and the University of Oxford to research the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development in India.
The Centre has also awarded the Gopal Subramanium scholarship to Swapnil Tripathi for pursuing a DPhil in Law.
This year, the OICSD has awarded Indira Gandhi-Radhakrishnan scholarships to Mrinalini Mitra and Sumedha Chakravarthy to pursue a one-year master’s degree in Modern South Asian Studies.
Each year, the Centre awards partial scholarships for postgraduate studies in law through generous donations from Mr. Sarosh Zaiwalla, Senior Partner and Founder of Zaiwalla & Co, and Mr. Hemant Sahai, Founding Partner of HSA Advocates. The supporters of the Cornelia Sorabji Scholarship are distinguished friends from the Indian legal and business community. They include Dr. Pheroza Godrej, Senior Counsel Darius J Khambata, and Senior Advocate Harin Raval.
This year, the Ratanshaw Bomanji Zaiwalla scholarship was awarded to Sarvatrajit Singh Jajmann for an MSc in Law and Finance. In addition, the HSA Advocates scholarship and the Cornelia Sorabji scholarship were awarded to Avani Agarwal and Shubrojyoti Mookherjee, respectively, for the BCL degree.
The Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD) is a unique Oxford-India partnership created to advance research on the complex challenges and opportunities posed by sustainable development in India.
The Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development will help shape the next century of India’s growth by educating, connecting, and supporting its future leaders in sustainable development and by forging lasting partnerships between Indian institutions and the University of Oxford.
Source: Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, Somerville College, University of Oxford.
|GlobalGiants.Com|
— The editor is an Oxford Alumni Card Holder and an Oxford & Cambridge Society of India Member.
NASA Sets Landing Coverage for Russian Cosmonaut, Actress, Producer
Photo: The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship carrying three Russian crew members approaches the International Space Station for a docking to the Rassvet module. Aboard the spacecraft were Soyuz Commander and veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild, and producer Klim Shipenko. October 5, 2021. Image Credit: NASA.
Photo: Soyuz MS-19 crew members (from left) Yulia Peresild, Anton Shkaplerov, and Klim Shipenko pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Shkaplerov is a Roscosmos cosmonaut and the Soyuz Commander visiting the International Space Station for the fourth time. Peresild and Shipenko are spaceflight participants and first-time space flyers representing Russia. August 26, 2021. Image Credit: NASA.
Photo: Spaceflight participant and Soyuz MS-19 Board Engineer Yulia Peresild poses for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. August 26, 2021. Image Credit: NASA.
WASHINGTON, October 12, 2021 — NASA will provide complete coverage as three space travelers living aboard the International Space Station, including a Russian actress and her producer-director, return to Earth just after midnight on Sunday, October 17.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos will be at the controls of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, flanked by Russian actress Yulia Peresild and Russian producer-director Klim Shipenko, for the spacecraft’s undocking from the station’s Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module Saturday, October 16. The trio will make a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan a little more than three hours later, at 12:36 a.m. EDT (10:36 a.m. Kazakhstan time) Sunday, October 17.
Coverage of the crew’s farewells and hatch closure, undocking, and landing will air live on NASA TV, the agency’s website, and the NASA app.
After landing, the crew will return by Russian helicopters to the recovery staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, before boarding a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft to return to their training base in Star City, Russia.
Peresild and Shipenko arrived at the station on October 5 aboard the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov for 12 days filming their movie, “Challenge,” under a commercial agreement between Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities. They served as spaceflight participants during their stay on the orbital complex.
Novitskiy returns to Earth after 191 days in space on his third mission that spanned 3,056 orbits of Earth and 80.9 million miles.
When the Soyuz undocks, Expedition 66 will formally begin aboard the station. Commander Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Mark Vande Hei, JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov will remain aboard the orbiting outpost.
IMF announces its World Economic Outlook October 2021 Forecast
Photo: International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook. Chief Economist Gita Gopinath, Division Chief in the IMF Research Department, prepares to provide the World Economic Outlook during the 2021 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund. October 12, 2021. Washington, DC, United States. IMF Photo/Joshua Roberts.
Washington, DC. October 12, 2021 —The IMF is lowering its global growth projection for 2021 slightly to 5.9 percent while keeping it unchanged for 2022 at 4.9 percent. However, this modest headline revision masks significant downgrades for some countries, the Fund reports in its World Economic Outlook released Tuesday (October 12) in Washington, DC.
“The global recovery continues, but momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. As a result, we have a slight downward revision for global growth for this year to 5.9 percent for next year. Our projection remains unchanged at 4.9 percent. However, the divergences in growth prospects across countries persist and remain a major concern,” said Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund.
Gopinath added that risks to economic prospects have increased, and policy trade-offs have become more complex in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, monetary policy will need to walk a fine line between tackling inflation and financial risks and supporting economic recovery.
“One of the major risks remains that there could be new variants of the virus that could further slow back the recovery. In addition, we’re seeing major supply disruptions worldwide that are also feeding inflationary pressures, which are quite high. Further, financial risk-taking also is increasing, which poses an additional risk to the outlook,” explained Gopinath.
The dangerous divergence in economic prospects across countries remains a significant concern. These divergences are a consequence of the ‘great vaccine divide’ and large disparities in policy support.
“The foremost priority is to vaccinate the world. Much greater multilateral action is needed to vaccinate at least 40 percent of the population in every country by the end of this year. And 70 percent by the middle of next year. We also need much greater action to address climate change. Individual countries will need to tailor their fiscal and monetary policy to the country’s specific conditions, to the health conditions in their country, to their economic conditions, while also maintaining the credibility of their fiscal and monetary frameworks,” said Gopinath.
Stockholm, October 11, 2021 — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021.
With one half to —
David Card The University of California, Berkeley, USA
“For his empirical contributions to labor economics.”
And the other half jointly to —
Joshua D. Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Guido W. Imbens Stanford University, USA
“For their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.”
• Natural experiments help answer important questions for society.
This year’s Laureates - David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens - have provided new insights into the labor market. They have shown what conclusions about cause and effect one can draw from natural experiments. Their approach has spread to other fields and revolutionized empirical research.
Many of the big questions in the social sciences deal with cause and effect. How does immigration affect pay and employment levels? How does a more comprehensive education affect someone’s future income? These questions are difficult to answer because we have nothing to use as a comparison. We do not know what would have happened if there had been less immigration or if that person had not continued studying.
However, this year’s Laureates have shown that it is possible to answer these questions using natural experiments. The key is to handle situations in which chance events or policy changes result in groups of people being treated differently in a way that resembles clinical trials in medicine.
Using natural experiments, David Card has analyzed the labor market effects of minimum wages, immigration, and education. His studies from the early 1990s challenged conventional wisdom, leading to new analyses and additional insights. The results showed, among other things, that increasing the minimum wage does not necessarily lead to fewer jobs. In addition, we now know that the incomes of people born in a country can benefit from new immigration, while people who immigrated at an earlier time risk being negatively affected. Finally, we have also realized that resources in schools are far more critical for students’ future labor market success than was previously thought.
Data from a natural experiment is difficult to interpret, however. For example, extending compulsory education by a year for one group of students (but not another) will not affect everyone in that group in the same way. Moreover, some students would have kept studying anyway and, for them, the value of education is often not representative of the entire group. So, is it even possible to draw any conclusions about the effect of an extra year in school? In the mid-1990s, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens solved this methodological problem, demonstrating precise conclusions about cause and effect from natural experiments.
“Card’s studies of core questions for society and Angrist and Imbens’ methodological contributions have shown that natural experiments are a rich source of knowledge. Moreover, their research has substantially improved our ability to answer critical causal questions, which has been of great benefit to society,” Peter Fredriksson, chair of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee, stated.
Punjab Central University Vice-Chancellor chairs the Technical Session at India Ministry of Education Webinar on Good Governance.
India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan calls for furthering the spirit of Collective Partnership.
National Education Policy, 2020 will be the pillar of the foundation of NEW INDIA, says Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce & Industry.
Photo: The Union Minister for Education, Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, and the Minister of State for Education, Ms. Annpurna Devi, released the ‘One-year New Education Policy (NEP) - 2020 Achievement’ booklet in New Delhi on August 24, 2021. [File Photo]
New Delhi, October 7, 2021 — The Ministry of Education of India and the University Grants Commission (UGC) organized a webinar on Collective Partnership today. The webinar was a part of a series of webinars scheduled by the Government of India on Good Governance from September 17, 2021, to October 7, 2021. Union Minister of Education and Skill Development, Dharmendra Pradhan; Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal; Secretary, Higher Education, Sanjay Murthy; Chairman, UGC, Prof D.P Singh, and senior officials of the Ministry and UGC attended the webinar.
Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan highlighted the importance of good governance. He said that during the covid pandemic, India was one of the leading countries to offer a helping hand to the world. He added that the next 25 years would be crucial for future generations to lead the country towards a more glorious future.
The Minister emphasized the importance of people’s participation in making a self-reliant India. “People’s Participation” is a crucial pillar of Modi Government’s governance model,” he added.
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal, said that the world is looking at India as a trusted partner for a skilled workforce with enormous education possibilities attracting foreign institutions and students to come to India as their preferred study destination.
Mr. Sanjay Murthy, Secretary, Higher Education, highlighted the importance of the National Education Policy 2020 and its alignment to delivering good governance while focusing on the collaborative partnership of government departments, NGOs, civil societies, private players, and most importantly, the ordinary person.
In his Opening Remarks, Prof. D.P. Singh, Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), talked about improving the quality of India’s education system.
The webinar on Collective Partnership helped bring together people from academic institutions, Ministries, and educationists to share a platform for furthering discussion on Good Governance.
Prof. R.P. Tiwari, Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Punjab, chaired the Technical Session. Prof. R.P. Tiwari is well known for his various other roles. For example, he is the Chairman of the Government Committee for recommending “Governance Reforms” in Chandigarh’s local, Panjab University.
The webinar deliberated on issues of Good Governance with a focus on the role of collective effort and partnership for achieving the same. The discussions focused on strategies that would enable and promote cooperative collaboration to realize the goals of the National Education Policy, 2020. An important takeaway of the webinar was the significance of collaborative partnership to empower people, improve the education system, boost economic growth, and ultimately leave no one behind. Discussions and ideas shared from the webinar will help fulfill the goals of delivering good governance in education.
Source: Ministry of Education, Government of India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets the CEO of QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
Photo: New Delhi, India, October 5, 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Nunzio Quacquarelli, CEO and Managing Director of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. They discussed higher education.
“Had a productive meeting with Nunzio Quacquarelli, the CEO and Managing Director of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. We talked at length about aspects relating to the education sector,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is a leading provider of services, analytics, and insight to global higher education.
The QS World University Rankings portfolio, inaugurated in 2004, is a popular source of comparative data about the performance of universities.
New York City Mayor, de Blasio, announces Columbia University will operate and oversee Pandemic Response Institute.
• Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) allocated $20 Million in City Funding, tasked with Preparing Communities Ahead of the Next Pandemic.
NEW YORK, September 29, 2021 — Today, Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) announced Pandemic Response Institute (PRI). Columbia University would launch and operate it. The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) will be a crucial partner.
A broad consortium of non-profit public health entities, community-based organizations, industries, and businesses will work with the Institute to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies.
The PRI (Pandemic Response Institute) will get up to $20 million in City capital funding for eligible costs. It would prepare New York City for future health emergencies and epidemics more effectively and equitably. In addition, it would position the city as a global leader to serve as a model for public health response.
“The Pandemic Response Institute, operated by Columbia University with key partner CUNY SPH, will play a critical role in preparing for future pandemics and promoting equity in public health,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “Born out of New York’s quick action during the early days of the pandemic, this institute will put our hardest learned lessons to work so that when the next public health crisis emerges, New York City will not only be prepared; we will be ready to lead these global fights.”
“The Pandemic Response Institute will serve as our City’s anchor as we invest and ensure we have the tools we need to confront — and prevent — future public health emergencies,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Vicki Been. “We are grateful to our partners at Columbia and CUNY SPH for putting forth an ambitious and comprehensive vision for such an urgent need for New York City.”
“The experience of confronting COVID-19 and recent natural disasters has proven that we must work together to prepare and respond to public health emergencies,” said First Deputy Health Commissioner and Chief Equity Officer Dr. Torian Easterling. “These investments will prepare us to fight future health crises and ensure a just recovery and the opportunity to establish New York City as the public health capital of the world.”
“One of the lessons we’ve learned over the last 18 months during the COVID-19 pandemic is the importance of a robust public health emergency response system,” said Emergency Management Commissioner John Scrivani. “The partnership with Columbia University and the other institutions will make the Pandemic Response Institute a hub of innovation, information, and planning to prepare us for the next health crisis better. A dedicated institute to analyze and plan for future crises, along with resources and collaboration with City agencies, will help minimize the impact of future disasters and strengthen our public health responses.”
“Our commitment to building a recovery for all of us includes ensuring a robust public health response to any future emergency,” said the City’s Senior Advisor for Recovery, Lorraine Grillo. “We look forward to working with Columbia and CUNY to bolster our city’s infrastructure, so we are better prepared to swiftly and equitably address any threat to the well-being of our communities.”
“Columbia University with key partner CUNY SPH demonstrated to us a high level of expertise that was unmatched,” said NYCEDC President and CEO Rachel Loeb. “NYCEDC has every confidence these esteemed institutions and their partners will put New York City and all New Yorkers first. Keeping people safe and our economy open means we need an unprecedented public health response that is forward-looking and dedicated to addressing health disparities. NYCEDC is proud to help establish a Pandemic Response Institute that will be innovative and critical to our public health infrastructure.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic has opened our eyes to the critical need for strong and vibrant multi-sector partnerships to protect New Yorkers from emergent health threats effectively,” said Wafaa El-Sadr. El-Sadr is Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and Director of ICAP and Columbia World Projects. He is leading the PRI. “The Pandemic Response Institute will create an unprecedented nexus for engagement, expertise, and resources from across our city,” he added.
“We are enormously excited to partner with Columbia University in this vital effort,” said Ayman El-Mohandes, Dean of CUNY SPH. “Our school’s primary commitment to health equity and social justice, coupled with existing strengths in health communication, systems modeling, and community outreach, will help to shape and support this initiative to advance a new vision for the health of all New Yorkers.”
NYCEDC (New York City Economic Development Corporation), DOHMH (The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene), and New York City Emergency Management reviewed and selected Columbia to launch this Institute with a critical partnership with CUNY SPH and other collaborators, following a Request for Proposals (RFP) in April. Through its Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University put forth an ambitious and compelling vision for the PRI.
The PRI will specifically focus on:
Building or strengthening technologies and systems to support real-time data collection and sharing.
Driving cutting-edge research on public health innovation and creating capacity to scale technological solutions in future public health emergencies rapidly.
Piloting community-based partnership models and workforce training programs to improve emergency preparedness and advance health outcomes across all communities.
Dr. Claire Pomeroy, President and CEO of the Lasker Foundation, remarked, “Thanks to the Pandemic Response Institute, we are better positioned to build a healthier, more resilient, and more just New York City — and serve as a model for the world.”
World Leaders, CEOs, & Global Celebrities Gather at Harvard University for the HPAIR Summit
Government ministers from Asia, Europe, and the U.S., Fortune 500 business CEOs, philanthropic leaders, and decorated celebrities delivered remarks at the annual HPAIR conference.
The meeting was held virtually. It discussed progress across technological frontiers, addressing social issues, improving global governance, and fostering philanthropy.
Dubbed “The Davos of Harvard” by Business Insider, 75 Harvard students organized the HPAIR conference to democratize information by connecting today’s leaders with the future leaders of tomorrow. The event welcomed over 9,000 delegates worldwide. Co-Presidents Zeel Patel and Eric Lin led the meeting.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 28, 2021 — The Harvard College Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) that operates the largest student-run conference in the USA and Asia has concluded its flagship HPAIR 2021 Conference. It was the most extensive gathering in its 30-year history. The summit’s theme was Reinventing with Resilience, where attendees shared visions on improving the state of the world following COVID-19 by engaging in disruptive innovation across social, political, academic, and business dimensions.
Government ministers, Fortune 500 business CEOs, and decorated celebrities listed below gathered at Harvard University.
• Notable keynote speakers for the event included:
Bob Sternfels, CEO of McKinsey & Company
Manny Maceda, CEO of Bain & Company
Rich Lesser, CEO of Boston Consulting Group
Mark Suzman, CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder of Wikipedia
Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative, Cabinet Member of the United States under President Biden’s Administration
Adam D’Angelo, CEO & Co-Founder of Quora, Former CTO of Facebook
HE Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance for Indonesia, Former Managing Director & CFO of the World Bank
HE Minister Nadiem Makarim, Minister of Education & Culture for Indonesia, former Co-Founder of GoJek
N.R. Narayana Murthy, Founder and former CEO of Infosys, Board Member of the U.N. Foundation, Ford Foundation, and former Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum
Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, Advisor to Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel
Ajay Piramal, Chairman of the Piramal Group
Muhammad Yunus, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2006 & the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Aparna Bawa, COO of Zoom
Justin Kan, Co-Founder of Twitch, Partner at Y Combinator
Anne Chow, CEO of AT&T (Business)
Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo, Former Minister of Defence for Japan
Lord Ed Vaizey, Member of the House of Lords for the UK.
Professor Peter Singer, Renowned Ethical Philosopher at Princeton University, Founder of The Life You Can Save
Jessica Meir, NASA Astronaut
Steve Aoki, Celebrity American D.J. & Record Producer
Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman, and Founder of Banyan Tree Hotels
Sheila Patel, CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Veronica Chou, Founder and CEO of Everybody & Everyone
Idris Jala, former CEO of Malaysia Airlines
“Our core focus has always been to gather people who are pioneers in their respective fields and engage them in Socratic dialogue with one another on issues of global importance. And then to capture those ideas generated and share them worldwide,” remarked Zeel Patel, Co-President of HPAIR. “It creates a mesocosm of information transfer that only happens when two leaders interact, such as the CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Co-Founder of Wikipedia.”
Lesly Goh, former CTO of The World Bank Group and member of HPAIR’s Board of Advisors, applauded the global team on their achievements: “it was quite a pleasure to support Zeel, Eric, and their team of 75 Harvard students as they orchestrated the conference from their Dubai, Boston, and Taipei offices. While the virtual format brought on tremendous challenges, it also provided incredible opportunities to maximize HPAIR’s impact and accelerate our mission of democratizing insights to our delegates, connecting young future leaders with leaders globally.”
The Harvard College Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) is a 30-year-old non-profit organization founded to create a forum of exchange for young professionals and current world leaders to discuss and learn about the most important technological, political, and economic issues facing the globe. The mission is to connect today’s top leaders with the future leaders of tomorrow in a dynamic forum of engagement.
Since 1991, HPAIR has organized 50 conferences in 19 different host countries, touching the lives of more than 40,000 students and young professionals. In addition, HPAIR hosts two student-led conferences a year, one on Harvard’s campus and one in Asia-Pacific.
Source: Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)
Bloomberg Businessweek's 2021-2022 Best B-Schools MBA Ranking
Photo: The Rutgers MBA Program received high scores for the compensation of its graduates, the strength of its networking, and its diversity, according to the latest Bloomberg Businessweek ranking. Image provided by Rutgers Business School.
New York, September 26, 2021 — Bloomberg Businessweek’s has published its Best B-Schools MBA Ranking 2021-2022. Bloomberg ranked 119 business schools worldwide.
According to Bloomberg, all schools were required to submit employment data for the Class of 2020, following standards set by MBA CSEA, a trade group founded in 1994 to establish and collect consistent, comparable, peer-reviewed data.
Bloomberg Businessweek said its Best B-Schools ranking starts with a basic premise: The best judges of MBA programs are graduating students, recent alumni, and companies that recruit MBAs. And we want the best answers: Are schools offering what millennial students need, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? Are recent graduates able to leverage what they’ve learned and tapped into their schools’ networks? What do businesses value most in recruits?
“We learned that the major stakeholders — students, alumni, and recruiters — could have differing and overlapping needs and interests. So we rank schools based on four indexes that capture key elements of business school education: Compensation, Learning, Networking, and Entrepreneurship,” Bloomberg explained.
“For the 2021-22 ranking, we added a fifth index for U.S. schools: Diversity. For the first time, schools are providing data on race, ethnicity, and gender in their classes in a standardized way we can measure,” Bloomberg added.
“Our methodology involves two steps. Step 1 generates weightings for each index. We let the stakeholders decide rather than assign the indexes relative weightings ourselves. In our surveys, we asked students, alumni, and recruiters what was most important to them. We provide a dozen options, such as ‘increase my earnings potential,’ ‘build my professional network,’ and ‘learn how to start or develop a business.’ The U.S. surveys also offered diversity options such as ‘learn in a diverse, equitable and inclusive B-school environment’ and ‘learn how to work successfully in an increasingly diverse workforce.’ Their answers determine the weightings of each of our indexes.”
“Step 2 asks a range of survey questions on the business school experience, each mapped to a specific index. We also collect MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance (MBA CSEA) employment and compensation data from schools. We also collect data on their class members’ race, ethnicity, and gender. Finally, from survey scores and the data, we calculate the overall ranking,” Bloomberg Businessweek elaborated.
• Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best B-Schools 2021-2022 — Overall
US Embassy North India Director Michael Rosenthal inaugurates US Study Center at Chandigarh University.
• US Study center will serve as a coordination office for admissions to US Universities, visa preparation, and NCLX training center.
• Indian students are welcome to study in the US; With a sharp mind and brilliant skills, Indians contribute to the development of society and our country says, US Embassy Director NIO Michael Rosenthal.
Photo: US Embassy North India Director Michael Rosenthal inaugurated US Study Center at Chandigarh University.
CHANDIGARH, India, Sept. 27, 2021 — American people are learning from Indians by allying with India in various fields, and the people of both countries benefit from multiple alliances. Michael Rosenthal, Director, North India Office (NIO), US Embassy, said. He was speaking during the inaugural ceremony of the US Studies Center at Chandigarh University. Chandigarh University has set up a US Study Center on the campus to create opportunities for students to study in leading academic institutions of America. The study center will prove to be an essential factor in providing long-term and short-term programs to university students, joint research programs, preparation for visa interviews, USA in-house degree programs, and promoting cultural and social exchange between the two countries.
The US has always welcomed students from all over the world, including India. Indian students bring so many skills, ideas, and enthusiasm which helps the people and society of the US, Michael Rosenthal said. He further added, “The collaboration between the US and Indian educational institutions has been growing over the last few years. Students and faculty from both countries are learning from each other through Joint Research and Exchange Program. It reflects the strong academic ties between the US and India.” The relations between India and the USA are not merely ties between two governments, but this relationship is people-driven and people-centric, added Michael Rosenthal.
While speaking on the Indo-US relationship, Michael Rosenthal said, “The US is one of the top trading partners in terms of goods and services for India. The bilateral trade between India and the US has scaled to new heights and touched $ 150 billion in recent time. The United States and India have shared interests in promoting global security, stability, and economic prosperity through trade, investment, and connectivity”. The strong people-to-people ties, educational institutions tie-ups, and scientists of both the nations doing research together is a tremendous source of strength for the Indo-US partnership, added Mr. Rosenthal.
“US Study Center established at the campus of Chandigarh University is a symbol of further improving the relationship between the US and India. This center will facilitate more educational exchanges, more scientific research, and more study opportunities between the students of both the countries,” said Michael Rosenthal. While talking about the New Education Policy of India, Michael Rosenthal said, “India’s New Education Policy opens up new opportunities for collaboration with the foreign countries. India has great minds, faculty, institutions, and research facility. Therefore, many US universities, educational institutes, and individuals are interested in collaborating with Indian universities for various research programs.”
With this newly inaugurated US Study Center, students will enroll in universities in the US with exclusive scholarship facilities. The US Study Center, set up in the university campus, includes the coordination offices of the University of North Alabama and Arkansas State University. The newly inaugurated center will provide an in-house MBA program under the 1+1 plan. Students will study at Chandigarh University Campus for one year and complete the remaining study with scholarship facilities at the University of North Alabama. In addition, the center will offer training and preparation courses for the National Council Licensing Examination (NCLEX) for licensure of nurses in the US, Canada, and Australia. Furthermore, the campus-based center will organize joint conferences, seminars, workshops, and joint research activities in collaboration with partner universities in the US to provide students with world-class knowledge on research and innovation.
Chandigarh University Chancellor Satnam Singh Sandhu said, “To provide world-class employment and quality education to the students, the university has established academic alliances with more than 308 best universities in 68 countries including Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.” Chandigarh University has tied up with 25 universities in the US so far, and more than 192 its students are already pursuing their studies in the US under various programs.”
Chandigarh University is an autonomous educational institution located near Chandigarh in Punjab, India. It is the youngest University in India and the only private University in Punjab to be honored with an A+ Grade by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council). CU offers more than 109 undergraduate and postgraduate programs in engineering, management, pharmacy, law, architecture, journalism, animation, hotel management, commerce, and other disciplines.
QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 — The World's Best Universities for Graduate Employment
Photo Buildings at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Campus. Image Credit: Shih-Pei Chang.
LONDON, Sept. 23, 2021 — QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have released their annual deep dive into the relationship between university choice and graduate employment outcomes. The result is the 2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings: an independent list of the world’s top institutions for career-focused students.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is named global employability leader, achieving perfect scores in three of the five indicators used by QS to compile the table.
The QS Graduate Employability Rankings offer a more granular comparative examination of universities’ work to cultivate propitious pathways into high-quality employment. QS Employability rates Universities on partnerships with employers (including internships), the number of sectoral leaders among their alumni, the frequency with which employers are present on campus, and a location-adjusted graduate employment rate.
As the world recovers from the impact of the pandemic, the importance of graduating with the skills and qualities required by modern employers has never been greater.
Each of the universities ranked here has demonstrated an ability to produce graduates with the ‘soft skills’ required for the modern workplace. However, given the fierce competition for graduate roles worldwide, students should be seriously considering how their university can prepare them adequately for full-time employment by connecting them with global employers and ensuring they develop the necessary skills and knowledge.
If you’re concerned about your future career prospects and wondering which universities are competent to help you succeed, this QS ranking is a great place to start.
Highlights include:
Stanford University (2nd) and the University of California, Los Angeles (3rd) complete an all-American top three.
The University of Sydney is the top non-American institution (4th). It is joined in the top ten by the University of Melbourne (8th).
Asia’s leader is China’s Tsinghua University (6th).
Only one British university attains a top-ten place: Oxford (7th, up from 10th).
The University of Hong Kong ranks 10th.
France’s Institut Polytechnique de Paris (12th, new entrant) ranks #1 in continental Europe.
Canada’s leader is the University of Toronto (21st). It is joined in the top 25 by the University of Waterloo (24th).
Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey (26th) is Latin America’s leader.
The Arab Region is home to one top-100 institution: the American University of Beirut (73rd).
From India, 12 universities feature on the list. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (101-110) leads. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (131-140) and IIT Madras (151-160) follow it. Others on the list are IIT Kharagpur (201-250), The University of Delhi (201-250), BIT Pilani (251-300), IIT Kanpur (251-300), University of Mumbai (251-300), ISC Bangalore (301-500), O.P. Jindal Global University Sonipat (301-500), IIT Roorkee (501+), and The University of Calcutta (501+).
Pakistan has five institutions featured here: Lahore University of Management Sciences Lahore (161-170), National University of Sciences & Technology Islamabad (301-500), The University of Lahore (301-500), University of Engineering & Technology Lahore (301-500), and Punjab University Lahore (301-500).
Ben Sowter, Director of Research, QS, said: “Students are becoming increasingly conscious of the competitiveness of the global graduate jobs market and the ever-increasing financial costs of their educational investment. So such independent data must be available to them for making evidence-based decisions about their educational futures. Australian institutions perform better at the top than British ones, and various universities in Latin America and Asia outperform their overall rank. So it is clear that it is valuable to shine a unique light on outstanding employability performance - one that rewards institutions successfully fulfilling this critical aspect of their mission.”
• QS Graduate Employability 2022 Rankings
• Top 100
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, United States
Stanford University Stanford, United States
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, United States
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Mainland)
The University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau Cedex, France
University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
Yale University, New Haven, United States
Princeton University, Princeton, United States
New York University (NYU), New York City, United States
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore
Columbia University, New York City, United States
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
UCL, London, United Kingdom
The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
Peking University, Beijing, China (Mainland)
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States
Duke University, Durham, United States
Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), Santiago, Chile
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, Australia
Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (Mainland)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Western University, London, Canada
KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei City, Taiwan
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Brown University, Providence, United States
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
University of Washington, Seattle, United States
University of Technology Sydney, Haymarket, Australia
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, United States
The University of Queensland, Brisbane City, Australia
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Tokyo, Japan
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Tecnológico de Costa Rica -TEC Cartago, Costa Rica
Universidad Industrial de Santander - UIS Bucaramanga, Colombia
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima, Peru
Universidad Nacional de la Asunción San Lorenzo, Paraguay
Universidad ORT Uruguay Montevideo, Uruguay
Universidad de la República (Udelar) Montevideo, Uruguay
Universidade Católica Portuguesa - UCP Lisbon, Portugal
Universitas Brawijaya Malang, Indonesia
Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) Kajang, Malaysia
University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
University of Denver Denver, United States
University of East Anglia (UEA) Norwich, United Kingdom
University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada
École Centrale de Nantes Nantes, France
Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds
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• Do not confuse ‘QS Graduate Employability 2022 Rankings’ with the regular ‘QS World University Rankings 2022’, which QS has already published (also reported here) on June 9, 2021.
Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College Rankings 2022
Photo: The University of Chicago Campus. Image Credit: Corey Seeman.
London/New York, September 22, 2021 — The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College Ranking uses 15 performance indicators. It strives to answer the questions that matter most to students and their families. For example, how likely am I to graduate, pay off my loans, and get a good job? Does the college have plenty of resources to teach me properly? Would I be engaged and stretched in the classroom and get good access to my teachers? Is there a diverse campus community?
The 2022 ranking includes almost 800 colleges/universities.
Harvard University tops the table for the fifth year in a row. At the same time, Stanford University climbs two places to second, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University drop one place to third and fourth, respectively.
Johns Hopkins University is the only newcomer in the top 10, ranking at the joint ninth place (up from 11th), while Emory University is the only newcomer in the top 20.
The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor is the top public university for the second year in a row.
One new institution joins the table this year: the United States Military Academy, which ranks 47th.
• The student-focused WSJ/THE College Rankings differ considerably from the THE World University Rankings, which emphasize research excellence on a global scale.
All ranked institutions have an overall score and four pillar scores. However, for each pillar, only institutions ranked in the top 400 overall, or the top 400 in that pillar, have a publicly visible score.
The ranking adopts a balanced scorecard approach, with 15 individual performance indicators combined to create an overall score that reflects the broad strength of the institution.
Data comes from various sources: the U.S. government (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System - IPEDS), the College Scorecard, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the THE US Student Survey, the THE Academic Survey, and the Elsevier bibliometric dataset.
• WSJ/THE Ranking Methodology
The overall methodology explores four key areas:
• Resources (30%)
Does the college have the capacity to deliver teaching effectively? The Resources area represents 30 percent of the overall ranking. Within this, WSJ/THE look at:
Finance per student (11%)
Faculty per student (11%)
Research papers per faculty (8%)
• Engagement (20%)
Does the college effectively engage with its students? Most of the data in this area come from the THE US Student Survey. The Engagement area represents 20 percent of the overall ranking. Within this, WSJ/THE look at:
Student engagement (7%)
Student recommendation (6%)
Interaction with teachers and students (4%)
Number of accredited programs (3%)
• Outcomes (40%)
Does the college generate reasonable and appropriate outputs? Does it add value to the students who attend? The Outcomes area represents 40 percent of the overall ranking.
Within this, WSJ/THE looks at:
Graduation rate (11%)
Value added to graduate salary (12%)
Debt after graduation (7%)
Academic reputation (10%)
• Environment (10%)
Is the college providing a good learning environment for all students? Does it make efforts to attract a diverse student body and faculty? The Environment area represents 10 percent of the overall ranking. Within this WSJ/THE looks at:
The proportion of international students (2%)
Student diversity (3%)
Student inclusion (2%)
Staff diversity (3%)
• Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College Rankings 2022
• TOP 100
1 Harvard University Massachusetts
2 Stanford University California
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts
4 Yale University Connecticut
5 Duke University North Carolina
6 Brown University Rhode Island
7 California Institute of Technology California
8 Princeton University New Jersey
=9 Johns Hopkins University Maryland
=9 Northwestern University Illinois
11 Cornell University New York
12 University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
13 Dartmouth College New Hampshire
14 The University of Chicago Illinois
15 Vanderbilt University Tennessee
16 Columbia University New York
17 Washington University in St Louis Missouri
18 Rice University Texas
19 University of Southern California California
20 Emory University Georgia
21 Carnegie Mellon University Pennsylvania
22 Amherst College Massachusetts
23 Williams College Massachusetts
24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Michigan
25 Pomona College California
26 New York University New York
27 University of California, Los Angeles California
28 University of Notre Dame Indiana
29 Swarthmore College Pennsylvania
30 Tufts University Massachusetts
31 Wellesley College Massachusetts
32 Georgetown University District of Columbia
33 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill North Carolina
34 Claremont McKenna College California
35 Carleton College Minnesota
=36 University of California, Berkeley California
=36 Haverford College Pennsylvania
38 Bowdoin College Maine
39 Smith College Massachusetts
=40 University of California, Davis California
=40 Middlebury College Vermont
42 Boston University Massachusetts
=43 University of California, San Diego California
=43 Wesleyan University Connecticut
=45 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois
=45 University of Washington-Seattle Washington
47 United States Military Academy New York
48 Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana
49 University of Miami Florida
50 Barnard College New York
51 Case Western Reserve University Ohio
=52 Colgate University New York
=52 University of Rochester New York
54 University of Florida Florida
=55 Mount Holyoke College Massachusetts
=55 University of Virginia (Main campus) Virginia
57 Boston College Massachusetts
=58 Hamilton College New York
=58 University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin
60 University of Texas at Austin Texas
=61 Lehigh University Pennsylvania
=61 Wake Forest University North Carolina
63 University of Richmond Virginia
64 Bates College Maine
65 Vassar College New York
66 Davidson College North Carolina
67 Scripps College California
68 Bryn Mawr College Pennsylvania
=69 Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia
=69 Grinnell College Iowa
71 Tulane University Louisiana
72 George Washington University District of Columbia
73 Washington and Lee University Virginia
74 Santa Clara University California
75 United States Naval Academy Maryland
76 University of California, Santa Barbara California
77 Lafayette College Pennsylvania
78 William & Mary Virginia
79 Texas A&M University-College Station Texas
80 University of Maryland, College Park Maryland
=81 Bucknell University Pennsylvania
=81 Michigan State University Michigan
83 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus Pennsylvania
84 Franklin & Marshall College Pennsylvania
85 University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minnesota
86 Northeastern University Massachusetts
87 University of California, Irvine California
88 Pitzer College California
89 Macalester College Minnesota
90 Loyola Marymount University California
91 University of Illinois at Chicago Illinois
92 Reed College Oregon
93 Kenyon College Ohio
94 Southern Methodist University Texas
95 Occidental College California
96 University of the Pacific California
97 Indiana University Bloomington Indiana
98 Whitman College Washington
=99 Dickinson College Pennsylvania
=99 Ohio State University (Main Campus) Ohio
• 101-200
101 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York
102 Skidmore College New York
103 University of Connecticut Connecticut
=104 Trinity College Connecticut
=104 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Virginia
106 Trinity University Texas
107 Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois
108 Rhodes College Tennessee
=109 Connecticut College Connecticut
=109 Howard University District of Columbia
111 Brandeis University Massachusetts
112 Oberlin College Ohio
113 Saint Louis University Missouri
114 Denison University Ohio
=115 Colorado College Colorado
=115 Drexel University Pennsylvania
=117 College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts
=117 North Carolina State University North Carolina
=117 Syracuse University New York
120 DePauw University Indiana
121 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts
=122 Gettysburg College Pennsylvania
=122 Seattle University Washington
124 University at Buffalo New York
125 Stony Brook University New York
=126 Babson College Massachusetts
=126 Spelman College Georgia
=128 University of Denver Colorado
=128 Simmons University Massachusetts
=128 Villanova University Pennsylvania
131 University of Arizona Arizona
132 Bentley University Massachusetts
133 University of Utah Utah
134 Union College New York
135 Rhode Island School of Design Rhode Island
=136 Drake University Iowa
=136 Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Jersey
=138 American University District of Columbia
=138 Brigham Young University-Provo Utah
=138 Yeshiva University New York
=141 University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts
=141 Penn State (Main campus) Pennsylvania
=143 Creighton University Nebraska
=143 Elon University North Carolina
=143 University of Georgia Georgia
=143 Thomas Jefferson University Pennsylvania
147 Willamette University Oregon
148 Berea College Kentucky
149 Furman University South Carolina
=150 St Olaf College Minnesota
=150 The College of Wooster Ohio
=152 University of Delaware Delaware
=152 University of San Diego California
=154 The Catholic University of America District of Columbia
=154 Rochester Institute of Technology New York
=154 University of San Francisco California
=154 Texas Christian University Texas
=158 Chapman University California
=158 Virginia Military Institute Virginia
=160 Hobart and William Smith Colleges New York
=160 Linfield College - McMinnville campus Oregon
=160 Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Massachusetts
163 SUNY Binghamton University New York
=164 Allegheny College Pennsylvania
=164 Marquette University Wisconsin
=166 Muhlenberg College Pennsylvania
=166 Temple University Pennsylvania
168 Lawrence University Wisconsin
169 University of Iowa Iowa
170 Baylor University Texas
171 Fordham University New York
172 Kalamazoo College Michigan
=173 Florida State University Florida
=173 Wheaton College (Illinois) Illinois
=175 Pepperdine University California
=175 Ursinus College Pennsylvania
=177 Loyola University Chicago Illinois
=177 New Jersey Institute of Technology New Jersey
=179 George Mason University Virginia
=179 The University of Tulsa Oklahoma
181 Stevens Institute of Technology New Jersey
=182 Clemson University South Carolina
=182 University of Colorado Boulder Colorado
=184 University of California, Riverside California
=184 Colorado School of Mines Colorado
=184 Samford University Alabama
187 University of Portland Oregon
188 SUNY University at Albany New York
189 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo California
=190 Fairfield University Connecticut
=190 Sewanee-The University of the South Tennessee
=192 Beloit College Wisconsin
=192 Gonzaga University Washington
=192 Lake Forest College Illinois
=192 Missouri University of Science and Technology Missouri
=192 St Lawrence University New York
=197 California Institute of the Arts California
=197 Saint Mary’s College of California California
=197 Westmont College California
=200 Bradley University Illinois
=200 Sarah Lawrence College New York
• 201-300
=202 Clarkson University New York
=202 University of Detroit Mercy Michigan
=204 Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio
=204 Washington College Maryland
206 Gustavus Adolphus College Minnesota
=207 Earlham College Indiana
=207 Hofstra University New York
=207 Susquehanna University Pennsylvania
=210 Michigan Technological University Michigan
=210 Wofford College South Carolina
=212 Butler University Indiana
=212 CUNY City College of New York New York
=214 Arizona State University (Tempe) Arizona
=214 University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Colorado
=214 Washington & Jefferson College Pennsylvania
=217 Clark University Massachusetts
=217 Westminster College (Utah) Utah
=219 Iowa State University Iowa
=219 University of Kansas Kansas
=219 Providence College Rhode Island
=219 Stonehill College Massachusetts
=223 Centre College Kentucky
=223 Loyola University Maryland Maryland
=223 College of Saint Benedict Minnesota
=223 Valparaiso University Indiana
=227 Bryant University Rhode Island
=227 Miami University Ohio
=229 Knox College Illinois
=229 University of the Sciences Pennsylvania
=231 University of Dayton Ohio
=231 DePaul University Illinois
=231 Ithaca College New York
=234 CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College New York
=234 Lewis & Clark College Oregon
=236 Mount Saint Mary’s University California
=236 Saint Joseph’s University Pennsylvania
=238 Adelphi University New York
=238 Southwestern University Texas
=238 Washington State University Washington
241 University of Oregon Oregon
=242 Quinnipiac University Connecticut
=242 Southern Illinois University Carbondale Illinois
University Grants Commission (UGC) India asks Universities to promptly attend to Requests/Inquiries concerning Verification/Authentication of Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates awarded by them.
— UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 —
New Delhi, August 16, 2021, — University Grants Commission (UGC) India has sent a letter to the University Vice-Chancellors. The letter asks them to ensure that their respective institutions pay prompt attention to the requests/inquiries concerning the Verification/Authentication of Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates they have awarded.
UGC has directed the universities to timely respond to all such inquiries in the students’ interest.
Source: University Grants Commission (UGC) India
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— UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 —
• University Grants Commission has sent the following communication to the Vice-Chancellors of all Universities:
• Sub: Implementation of Guidelines for Gender Champions in Educational Institutions.
Dear Madam/Sir,
To promote gender equality, guaranteed by Article 15 of the Indian Constitution, we need to change the mode of interaction at all levels — home, school, college, university, workplace, and so on. To increase the outreach for creating an environment that fosters equal treatment, the Government of India visualizes the engagement of Gender Champions in all educational institutions across the country. Gender Champions can be both boys and girls above 16 years of age enrolled in educational institutions. Gender Champions would be responsible leaders who will facilitate an enabling environment within their schools/colleges/academic institutions where girls are treated with dignity and respect.
In this context, kindly refer to this office letter of even number dated September 29, 2020, regarding the need for Gender Champions’ engagement to create an environment that fosters equal treatment in all educational institutions across the country.
Therefore, you are once again requested to ensure swift implementation of the ‘Guidelines for Gender Champions in Educational institutions’ in your University and the affiliated Colleges.
Further, please fill up the online details of compliance of Gender Champions by your University and affiliated Colleges and submit the same at “saksham.ugc.ac.in”.
QS Global MBA & Business Masters 2022 — The World's Best Schools and Programs for Future Business Leaders
Photo: Knight Management Center of Stanford Graduate School of Business. Palo Alto, California. Image Credit: Corey Seeman.
LONDON, Sept. 13, 2021 — QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global business school analysts, released their annual suite of rankings identifying the world’s premier study destinations for aspiring future business leaders. The evaluation comprises the QS World University Rankings: Global Full-Time MBA, and a series of specialized high-demand Business Masters Rankings, providing insight to those wishing to undertake a course of study in a career-enhancing qualification in high demand among employers. Stanford GSB is named the world’s number-one MBA, while Harvard Business School rises from 4th to joint-second, shared with The Wharton School.
HEC Paris offers continental Europe’s best MBA program (4th, up from 5th).
The UK’s #1 MBA provider remains London Business School (6th, up from 7th).
Spain’s IE Business School rises from 9th to joint-7th and is joined in the top-ten by IESE Business School (10th, up from 11th).
Melbourne Business School (26th, no change) offers Asia-Pacific’s best full-time MBA.
Only two Asian full-time MBA are among top-30. The National University of Singapore placed 28th, followed by compatriot Nanyang Technological University (29th).
QS compiles its Business Masters Rankings according to program performance in five key metrics: Employability, Entrepreneurship & Alumni Outcomes, Return on Investment, Thought Leadership, and Class & Faculty Diversity.
• QS Global Full-Time MBA Rankings
• Top 100
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford (CA), United States
Harvard Business School, Boston (MA), United States
Penn (Wharton), Philadelphia (PA), United States
HEC Paris, Jouy en Josas, France
MIT (Sloan), Cambridge (MA), United States
London Business School, London, United Kingdom
IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
INSEAD, Paris/Singapore, France
Columbia Business School. New York (NY), United States
IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
UC Berkeley (Haas), Berkeley (CA), United States
Chicago (Booth), Chicago (IL), United Kingdom
Esade Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Oxford (Said), Oxford, United Kingdom
UCLA (Anderson), Los Angeles (CA), United States
Northwestern (Kellogg), Evanston (IL), United States
Cambridge (Judge), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Yale School of Management, New Haven (CT), United States
NYU (Stern), New York (NY), United States
Michigan (Ross), Ann Arbor (MI), United States
Imperial College Business School, London, United Kingdom
Duke (Fuqua), Durham (NC), United States
SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy
Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
Melbourne Business School, Melbourne, Australia
ESSEC Business School, Paris & Singapore, France
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore
Nanyang NTU Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Erasmus (RSM), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Warwick Business School, Coventry, United Kingdom
Cornell University (Johnson), Ithaca (NY), United States
Boston University (Questrom), Boston (MA), United States
UNSW (AGSM), Sydney, Australia
USC (Marshall), Los Angeles (CA), United States
CEIBS, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong SAR
Mannheim Business School, Mannheim, Germany
University of Texas at Austin (McCombs), Austin (TX), United States
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper), Pittsburgh (PA), United States
University of Toronto (Rotman), Toronto (ON), Canada
EDHEC Business School, Nice, France
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Indiana University (Kelley), Bloomington (IN), United States
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India
HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong SAR
University of Manchester (Alliance), Manchester, United Kingdom
ESCP Europe, Paris, London, France
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bangalore, India
EGADE Business School, Mexico City, Mexico
Dartmouth College (Tuck), Hanover (NH), United States
The University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
University of Virginia (Darden), Charlottesville (VA), United States
EM Lyon Business School, Lyon, France
University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Georgia Tech (Scheller), Atlanta (GA), United States
Georgetown University (McDonough), Washington (DC), United States
WHU (Otto Beisheim), Dusseldorf, Germany
Shanghai Jiao Tong (Antai), Shanghai/Shenzhen/Singapore, China (Mainland)
Emory University (Goizueta), Atlanta (GA), United States
Vlerick Business School, Brussels, Belgium
University of Florida (Warrington), Gainesville (FL), United States
University of Minnesota (Carlson), Minneapolis (MN), United States
Queen’s University (Smith), Kingston (ON), Canada
Texas A&M (Mays), College Station (TX), United States
University of Washington (Foster), Seattle (WA), United States
University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler), Chapel Hill (NC), United States
CUHK Business School, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong SAR
Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
Michigan State University (Eli Broad), East Lansing (MI), United States
Western (Ivey), London (ON), Canada
Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia
McGill (Desautels), Montreal (QC), Canada
Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, United Kingdom
IIM Calcutta, Kolkata, India
Vanderbilt (Owen), Nashville (TN), United States
City’s Business School, London, United Kingdom
Durham University Business School, Durham, United Kingdom
AUB (Suliman S. Olayan), Beirut, Lebanon
George Washington, Washington (DC), United States
Rochester (Simon), Rochester (NY), United States
York (Schulich), Toronto (ON), Canada
MGSM Macquarie, Sydney, Australia
Rice (Jones), Houston (TX), United States
UBC (Sauder), Vancouver (BC), Canada
Washington University (Olin), St Louis (MO), United States
Penn State (Smeal), University Park (PS), United States
Politecnico di Milano School of Management, Milan, Italy
ESMT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
TIAS Business School, Tilburg, Netherlands
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad/Mohali, India
Babson College (Olin), Babson Park (MA), United States
INCAE Business School, Alajuela, Costa Rica
UQ Business School, Brisbane, Australia
Ohio State (Fisher), Columbus (OH), United States
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
North Carolina State (Jenkins), Raleigh (NC), United States
IESEG School of Management, Paris, France
UT Dallas (Naveen), Richardson (TX), United States
• 101-110
Arizona State (Carey), Tempe (AZ), United States
Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines
Boston College (Carroll), Boston (MA), United States
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble/Berlin, France
Notre Dame (Mendoza), Notre Dame (IN), United States
Pittsburgh (Katz), Pittsburg (PA), United States
Renmin University of China (RMBS), Beijing, China (Mainland)
School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Wisconsin School of Business, Madison (WI), United States
Zhejiang University, Business (AB), China (Mainland)
• 111-120
Alberta School of Business, Edmonton (AB), Canada
Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
Cape Town GSB, Cape Town, South Africa
Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Lehigh University, Bethlehem (PA), United States
Maryland (Smith), College Park (MD), United States
Southampton Business School, Southampton, United Kingdom
The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
The Lisbon MBA, Lisbon, Portugal
UCD (Smurfit), Dublin, Ireland
University of Western Australia Business School, Perth, Australia
• 121-130
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Colorado State University, Fort Collins (CO), United States
Georgia (Terry), Atlanta (GA), United States
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig, Germany
IPADE Business School, Mexico, Mexico
Leeds University Business School, Leeds, United Kingdom
SMU (Cox), Dallas (TX), United States
Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France
United Arab Emirates University College of Business and Economics, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
• 131-140
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Concordia (John Molson), Montreal (QC), Canada
EU Business School, Barcelona, Geneva/Montreux/Munich, Germany
Fordham (Gabelli), New York (NY), United States
KFUPM Business School, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
NUCB Business School, Nagoya, Tokyo, Japan
Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim), Boston (MA), United States
Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham/Kuala Lumpur, United Kingdom
Thammasat Business School, Bangkok, Thailand
UC Davis, Davis (CA), Sacramento (CA), United States
• 141-150
American University (Kogod), Washington (DC), United States
Aston Business School, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Audencia Business School, Nantes, France
Birmingham Business School, Birmingham, United Kingdom
EADA Business School, Barcelona, Spain
The University of Miami (Herbert), Miami (FL), United States
University of San Francisco (Masagung), San Francisco (CA), United States
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Yonsei School of Business, Seoul, South Korea
• 151-200
University of Arizona (Eller), Tucson (AZ), United States
Auburn University (Harbert), Auburn (AL), United States
Bath School of Management, Bath, United Kingdom
Baylor (Hankamer), Waco (TX), United States
Brandeis International Business School, Waltham (MA), United States
Brigham Young (Marriott), Provo (UT), United States
Brunel Business School, London, United Kingdom
Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead), Cleveland (OH), United States
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong SAR
University of Colorado-Boulder (Leeds), Boulder (CO), United States
University of Connecticut (UCONN), Hartford, CT, United States
Dalhousie University (Rowe), Halifax (NS), Canada
ESIC Business & Marketing School, Madrid, Barcelona, Spain
Exeter Business School, Exeter, United Kingdom
Florida International University, Miami (FL), United States
University of Glasgow (Adam Smith), Glasgow, United Kingdom
U.S. News & World Report Unveils the 2022 Best U.S. Colleges Rankings
Photo: Princeton University. Image Credit: Emil Mondoa.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2021 — U.S. News & World Report has released the 2022 U.S. News Best Colleges. In its 37th year, the rankings evaluate more than 1,400 colleges and universities on up to 17 measures of academic quality.
“Students and faculty continue to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, whether it’s through remote learning, mask-wearing, or vaccine requirements,” said Kim Castro, editor and chief content officer of U.S. News. “As communities work through these challenges, U.S. News is committed to providing information on the academic quality of institutions across the country, so prospective students and their families can make informed decisions throughout their college search.”
New in this year’s edition of the rankings is the Best Undergraduate Nursing Programs. U.S. News is publishing a brand-new ranking of more than 690 schools with Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing degree programs.
Princeton University is No. 1 among National Universities this year, and Williams College is the top school among National Liberal Arts Colleges. For Top Public Schools, the University of California—Los Angeles ranks No. 1 among National Universities. And the United States Naval Academy is No. 1 for Top Public Schools among National Liberal Arts Colleges.
Center for Security in Politics at UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy announces New Working Group to study Digital Remote Voting
• The new group will consist of experienced election security and cybersecurity experts, election administrators, and engineers to explore new voting methods that expand the ease and accessibility of voting.
• The goal is to engage in an academically rigorous process to evaluate and develop a set of security, accessibility, and election administration standards necessary for vendors and election officials to implement safe and secure digital ballot return options.
Photo: Clock Tower, University of California, Berkeley. Image Credit: Keegan Houser.
Photo: 2020 U.S. Presidential. Countdown to November 2020 Election. Image Credit: GPA Photo Archive / Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress. Public Domain. File Photo.
BERKELEY, Calif., September 10, 2021 — Center for Security in Politics (CSP) at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy has announced the formation of a new working group to rigorously assess the risks and opportunities associated with digital remote voting. The group will determine the feasibility of technical and implementation standards to enable digital ballots’ safe and secure return. Further, it would develop those standards and, where possible, outline the technologies necessary to meet the criteria.
As part of CSP’s mission to address critical global risks and public policy problems and create actionable solutions for policymakers, the working group will evaluate new methods to make voting more accessible, resilient, and secure for all Americans.
The group will consist of academic researchers, election administrators, cryptographers, and cybersecurity and election security experts. The first meeting took place on August 31, 2021.
“How people think about - and participate - in voting is changing,” said Professor Janet Napolitano, founder and faculty director for the Center for Security in Politics at UC Berkeley. “We cannot turn a blind eye to the lessons of the 2020 election or overlook the voters who face inherent barriers to voting. Instead, we need academically rigorous, evidence-based standards that will guide the development of safe and secure remote balloting technology.”
Recent advances in technology present a historic opportunity to explore new voting methods that could expand the ease and accessibility of voting. The 2020 presidential election cycle made it clear that voters need multiple options to cast their ballots, especially those displaced during a natural disaster, serving in the military, or unable to mark their ballot independently. Remote digital voting could address these barriers and expand access to new voters.
Digital remote voting comes with its own set of challenges, including voter and device authentication and vote verification. The group will study best practices from other countries and analyze the risks, rewards, and trade-offs. Digital remote voting is already available to military and overseas voters in 31 states and disabled voters in 8 states. Still, there are currently no national standards for security and to protect the anonymity of voters’ ballots. Over 330 jurisdictions in 8 states used mobile voting in 2020 during the November federal election.
“The last few years have publicly highlighted what election officials have long known: there are risks in administering elections,” said group convener Mike Garcia. He is a cybersecurity expert who previously ran digital identity at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has been working with states and localities on election security since 2017.
“There’s been a lot of noise around technologies relating to digital remote voting, both from vendors wanting to sell such technologies and from cybersecurity experts who almost universally oppose them,” says Jeremy Epstein, an expert in voting security. “Very little of the debates have been understandable to policymakers. Having a report from a balanced group of experts can help inform the discussion and give guidance to election officials who are frequently caught in the middle, unsure of the ‘least dangerous’ path forward.”
“There is no one approach to voting that works for everyone in the country,” said Garcia. “Moreover, no individual should forfeit their right to vote because the authorities suddenly call them to fight a wildfire or serve overseas on Election Day. Officials’ experience enables them to manage risk with mail-in ballots and in-person voting successfully. Still, the relative newness and technical nature of digital ballot return demand a focused effort. Digital remote voting is already happening. Now is the time to properly scan its use and provide unbiased guidance on managing risk to ensure it is secure, resilient, and accessible.”
Source: Center for Security in Politics, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.
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— The editor holds a certificate in ‘Solving Public Policy Problems’ from UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.
Chitkara University Chandigarh Bags A+ NAAC Accreditation
Chandigarh, India, Sep 08, 2021 — Chitkara University Chandigarh has been awarded a rating of A+ by the prestigious National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The rating places it among India’s 5% Higher Education Institutions (HEI) with such a coveted grade.
The Peer Team praised the University for its excellent infrastructure for education innovation and research and neat, clean, green, and well-maintained campus.
Dr. Ashok K Chitkara, Chancellor of Chitkara University, said, “It is the hard work by our students, staff, and faculty for years that resulted in securing this recognition. Moreover, the University has a well-defined research promotion policy which has succeeded in the development of state-of-the-art advanced facilities.”
Pro-Chancellor Dr. Madhu Chitkara expressed her sincere thanks to all stakeholders and said, “We develop the curricula following standardized procedures revised at regular intervals by taking feedbacks from all our stakeholders. We consider the local, regional, and global developmental needs regarding employability and entrepreneurship while designing the course. The experimental, participative, and project-based learning are in practice through blended mode. We have adopted a flexible CBCS (Choice Bases Credit System) that gives freedom to the students to undergo a multidisciplinary approach. The assessment process is well defined to evaluate the attainment level in critical thinking and problem-solving skills.”
Established in 1994, NAAC is an autonomous body of UGC which assesses and accredits Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). NAAC has identified a set of seven criteria to serve as the basis of its assessment procedures: Curricular Aspects; Teaching-learning & Evaluation; Research, Innovations & Extension; Infrastructure & Learning Resources; Student Support & Progression; Governance, Leadership & Management; and Institutional Values & Best Practices.
By studying in a NAAC accredited institution, students get a chance to learn in a cutting-edge environment and earn a degree that would have global recognition. In addition, they get instant identification as an alumnus of a credible institute and get better placement opportunities as the industry prefers hiring students from higher-graded institutions.
Rashtrapati Bhavan invites Applications for Visitor's Awards 2021 from Faculty Members and Students of Central Universities of India.
Photo: The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, at the ‘At Home Reception,’ on the occasion of the 72nd Republic Day Celebrations, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on January 26, 2021. [File Photo]
Photo: The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, presenting the 5th Visitor’s Awards, 2019, at the Conference of Vice-Chancellors of Central Universities, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi, December 17, 2019. [File Photo]
Photo: The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, addressing the Conference of Vice-Chancellors of Central Universities, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi, December 17, 2019. [File Photo]
New Delhi, India, August 25, 2021 — Rashtrapati Bhavan has invited online applications from faculty members and students of Central Universities of India for the Visitor’s Awards 2021 in the following three categories:
Visitor’s Award for Innovation.
Visitor’s Award for Research in (a) Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, (b) Physical Sciences, and (c) Biological Sciences.
Visitor’s Award for Technology Development.
The last date for applying is October 31, 2021.
The Government of India instituted the Visitor’s Awards in 2014 to promote healthy competition amongst Central Universities and motivate them to adopt best practices from around the world in pursuit of excellence.
The President of India, in his capacity as the Visitor of Central Universities, presents the Awards.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace) is the official residence of the President of India in New Delhi.
Source: President’s Secretariat, New Delhi
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— UPDATE —
September 3, 2021
• Education Minister of India meets Central Universities Vice-Chancellors •
New Delhi, September 3, 2021 — India’s Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, virtually met the Vice Chancellors of 45 Central Universities under the Ministry of Education on September 3, 2021. It is his first formal meeting with the Central Universities’ Vice-Chancellors in a group.
Times Higher Education (THE) announces World University Rankings 2022; The University of Oxford tops the List.
Photo: University of California, Berkeley. A view of the campus from far. Image Credit: Daniel Parks.
London, September 2, 2021 — The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022 include more than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.
The ranking table results from 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.
Times Higher Education said this year’s ranking analyzed more than 108 million citations across over 14.4 million research publications and included survey responses from almost 22,000 scholars globally. “Overall, we collected over 430,000 data points from more than 2,100 institutions that submitted data,” THE added.
The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the sixth consecutive year. At the same time, mainland China has two institutions in the top 20 for the first time: Peking University and Tsinghua University share 16th place.
Institut Polytechnique de Paris is the highest new entry at 95th place, following a merger of five institutions.
The US is the most-represented country overall, with 183 institutions. It is also the most represented in the top 200 (57). However, its share of universities in this elite group is falling.
Mainland China now has the joint fifth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 (up from joint seventh last year), overtaking Canada and on a par with the Netherlands.
Six new countries feature in the table compared with last year: Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Palestine, and Tanzania.
Harvard University tops the teaching pillar, while the University of Oxford is tops in research.
• Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022
TOP 100
University of Oxford — United Kingdom
California Institute of Technology — United States
Harvard University — United States
Stanford University — United States
University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States
Princeton University — United States
University of California, Berkeley — United States
Yale University — United States
The University of Chicago — United States
Columbia University — United States
Imperial College London — United Kingdom
Johns Hopkins University — United States
University of Pennsylvania — United States
ETH Zurich — Switzerland
Peking University — China
Tsinghua University — China
University of Toronto — Canada
University College London — United Kingdom
University of California, Los Angeles — United States
National University of Singapore — Singapore
Cornell University — United States
Duke University — United States
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — United States
Northwestern University — United States
New York University — United States
London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom
Carnegie Mellon University — United States
University of Washington — United States
University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom
University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
LMU Munich — Germany
University of Melbourne — Australia
University of California, San Diego — United States
Ohio State University (Main campus) — United States
University of Glasgow — United Kingdom
University of Minnesota — United States
University of Montreal — Canada
University of Science and Technology of China — China
Sorbonne University — France
Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Hong Kong
University of Bristol — United Kingdom
University of Maryland, College Park — United States
Michigan State University — United States
Institut Polytechnique de Paris — France
University of Copenhagen — Denmark
Ghent University — Belgium
University of California, Irvine — United States
Dartmouth College — United States
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) — South Korea
• The University of Oxford remains at the top of the table, retaining the top spot for an impressive sixth consecutive year.
In a year dominated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the rankings reflect the vital role of universities in understanding and managing the crisis. Many institutions worldwide saw significant boosts in their citation scores (a measure of a university’s research influence and impact in spreading new knowledge and ideas) from Covid-19 focused research.
Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, said: ‘My colleagues and I are delighted to have achieved the top ranking again. There are many excellent universities around the world, and we are proud to be in their company.
‘This past year has demonstrated to our public, governments, and even ourselves how much universities can contribute to society. For example, 170 countries are using the vaccine Oxford developed.’
Source: Times Higher Education
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— The Editor holds various certifications from several of the above TOP 100 — The University of Oxford, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Delft University of Technology Netherlands, and Dartmouth College.
Prof. Philip Kotler, "The Father of Marketing," inaugurates International TechInvent-2021 at Chandigarh University.
• “Digital Markets have provided more access to smaller companies and offered more variety to the consumers,” — Prof. Philip Kotler.
• Companies that fail to innovate with time get vanished from the market.” — Prof. Philip Kotler.
Chandigarh, India, August 28, 2021 — “Multinational companies all over the world have to strategize by making futuristic products and technologies available to the customers with changing times. Companies that fail to innovate are slowly extinct from the market,” said world-renowned author and Father of Modern Marketing, Prof. Philip Kotler, during the inauguration ceremony of the TechInvent 2021 organized by Chandigarh University.
Budding technocrats from all over India are participating in the month-long virtual TechInvent. Students from technical, state, central, and private universities and colleges compete to grab exciting cash rewards worth Rs 20 Lakhs.
Dr. Waldemar A. Pfoertsch, Prof. Emeritus for International Business at Pforzheim University, Germany, Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE, and Anantha Duraiappah, Director UNESCO MGIEP, were amongst the dignitaries who were present during the inauguration ceremony. While delivering his inaugural address to the students, Prof. Kotler said, “The emergence of digital marketing has opened up new avenues for the smaller companies. But, on the other hand, it has offered access to more variety for the consumers. Marketing 5.0 has just introduced the idea of using Artificial Intelligence to understand the consumers’ mood and requirement.” He further said that today when we go online shopping, the search algorithm used by the digital platforms shows results based on historical consumer behavior. While stressing using the mixed blend of traditional and modern marketing methods, Prof. Kotler said, “The traditional marketing techniques are based on consumer experience while the modern-day digital marketing techniques are based on historical consumer behavior.”
Dr. Waldemar A. Pfoertsch said, “Young and inquisitive minds help build the technology-driven products that are the future of the global markets. For example, suppose we see the technological advancements during the last decade. In that case, we will find that most of them have been the brainchild of youth innovators who, through their futuristic vision, have put their expertise in the development of products that we are using today.” Dr. Waldemar further added that universities and higher institutions play a critical role in breeding the next generation of innovators. The student community must learn the art of practically applying the theoretical concepts studied in the classroom.
TechInvent 2021 is an attempt to provide an international platform to the students to show their technical skills and allow them to learn new technologies from industry experts. The month-long TechInvent 2021 at Chandigarh University would organize more than fifty events in engineering, business management, mass communication, hotel management, fine arts, law, sciences and technology, fashion designing, industrial design, and architecture. The final rounds would be on 3rd and 4th September 2021.
Dr. R.S Bawa, Pro-Chancellor, Chandigarh University, said, “We have organized 42 Flagship Events, 21 International Workshops, 6 National Level Conferences, and 3 Entrepreneurship Summits during the month-long National level TechInvent 2021. Dignitaries from the Ministry of Power, Ministry of Earth Sciences, UNESCO, PEDA, AICTE, Asian Climate Change Education Centre participated. At the same time, representatives from more than 20 industries interacted with the students during the International Level TechInvent.”
Source: Chandigarh University
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• Prof. Philip Kotler is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor. He was the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (1962-2018). He is known for popularizing the definition of the marketing mix. He is the author of over 80 books, including Marketing Management, Principles of Marketing, Kotler on Marketing, Marketing Insights from A to Z, Marketing 4.0, Marketing Places, Marketing of Nations, Chaotics, Market Your Way to Growth, Winning Global Markets, Strategic Marketing for Health Care Organizations, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, My Adventures in Marketing, Up and Out of Poverty, and Winning at Innovation. — Editor
