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The British Elite Oxford (above) and the Cambridge universities, which came to one place for the fourth and sixth respectively, received the annual QS World University rating.
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Last week, leading British universities fell into a global rating, and experts raise red flags about the region’s ability to continue to attract international talents and educate innovation.
Annual QS World University The universities of the Elita Oxford and Cambridge in Britain headed one place for the fourth and sixth. Meanwhile, 54 of 90 British universities have fallen into the rating. These include a number of leading, including the University of Edinburgh, which fell to seven places to 34, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, which fell six seats to 56th.
QS World University Rating Performance of more than 1500 universities in more than 100 places in the world using metrics such as research and opening, learning experience, employment, global interaction and stability.
However, Sankara Sivaraj, head of the Kingston Business School CNBC do this What, despite the uppercase numbers, there was a certain progress: 17 of the UK 90 universities have made world top -100 and institutions such as Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Cambridge University and London University college, held their positions in the top -10.
“The desire of global competition”
However, “the sector faces significant problems from enhancing global competition, reducing funding for scientific research and difficulties in improving metrics, such as the ratio and internationalization of teachers,” Sivaraj said.
He explained that institutions in China, Singapore and Australia “make sustainable investments in the study, international partnerships and a set of teachers,” and the UK is lagging behind in these areas.
“The UK should prefer sustainable investments in the study and development, focus on the results of graduate and reputation of employers, as well as strengthen strategic global activity to remain competitive,” he said.
Edward Knight, President Venture Capital Antler, added that the rating is at the top Offered 6% tax Foreign students studying at UK universities can make the region a less attractive study place.
“What I hear at the same time … This is what is increasingly, in places such as China and India, the story goes to” hey, children are no longer going abroad to study. You can stay at home. “So, the combination of these plus taxes to make it more expensive for international students is obviously not useful,” Knit said.
“If you put taxes on people who come simultaneously when fluctuations are actually growing to go and study abroad, it is obviously not a particularly healthy set of drivers for overall health ecosystem,” Knit added.
“Europe is far behind the rest of the world”
British universities lagging behind in the world ranking is also a call for the awakening of technology and startup sector of the region, which is persistent retractable Behind the US and China.
“All is well and well put it that the UK is a leading place for innovation in Europe, but I think you are going to get a more rounded, more balanced perspective when the help set is actually wider,” Knit said.
He noted that artificial intelligence will be integrated into a national program in China from elementary school; The US has a Stargate project, the initiative, investing $ 500 billion over the next four years to create AI infrastructure; And Abu Dhabi launched MGX, an investment firm for AI Technologies.
“I think you will probably conclude that everything is in order, on top of the pile in Europe, but Europe is far behind the rest of the world,” Nitta added.
Knight noted that the University of Cambridge has created some of the best technology companies in the region, including Deepmind and Darktrace, but the UK lost these firms in the US. Darktrace was purchased by a private firm in the US and Deepmind was sold by Google.
“For some reason, these companies believe that they live better in the United States, but also because the multiplication growth, market growth in the United States, which expose to these companies, is higher than in the UK,” Knit said.
“Revolut is probably $ 50 billion. Will they speak publicly in the US, or they are going to stay here? Spotify came out of Stockholm, but it is made to NASDAQ. If you want to hold these businesses and companies, you need to provide a new, more favorable environment,” he added.
