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Hillol Nag
Consultant, QS Consulting
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A Middle Eastern University Efficiency in Controlled Environment A Latin American University Change in Research Outlook
How Can You Stay Ahead ?
United Kingdom
More and more developing nations are taking the lead in the Higher Education arena, be it active research volume or investment in HE , be it HE innovation or student enrolment ratio. 10 years ago no one would be interested to know about an University in Hong Kong but now some of them are world leaders.
A Middle Eastern University Efficiency in Controlled Environment A Latin American University Change in Research Outlook
How Can You Stay Ahead ?
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An Arabian Gulf nation with authoritarian governance is on a mission to build a Knowledge Economy fuelled by the energy wealth A high student Higher Education enrolment target rate (90%) puts enormous pressure on the public Universities Close control over budget ,decision making and University level policy making - Centralisation
Academic & Research reputation for Universities there is a concern, student employability could have been better and Most publications are in a non English Language.
Increased efficiency inside the University to use the limited resource in better way
Advised on student employability as a way to reduce dependency on Govt jobs post education
A Middle Eastern University Efficiency in Controlled Environment A Latin American University Change in Research Outlook
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In this populous Latin American nation, the economy is gearing to focus on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Most public universities there are autonomous but they are running short on capacity There are some very large private Universities, closely linked with Industry ,which have undergone tremendous growth due to demand. The strength of basic academic research is lost in these industry linked private Universities. Large technology institutions have been changing focus recently to enhance research profile.
Why QS Consulting
The board of the University noticed a few lacuna in terms of the research performance of the institution and hired the worlds most reputed management consultancy firm to advise them on research strategy. The head of external relations explained that they are not happy with the schematic and not practical advises that they received from the firm and hence needs a fresh specialist approach from us
The University engaged QS Consulting to help assess and revise its research strategy along several key dimensions; research faculty, PhD programs, publications and citations, external research money and entrepreneurial projects
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The project scope was divided into work groups engaged in various aspects of the research such as collaboration, motivation, funding, publication, governance and organisation
The project team, led by an expert senior consultant conducted in-depth interviews on campus with senior administrators involved with research strategy, policies and university management
Information gathered from various sources including: Scopus, QS Intelligence Unit, Google Scholar and third party rankings (e.g. Webometrics, ScimagoIRC)
The institution provided documents relating to strategic planning, governance structure and monitoring and measurement documentation relating to research
Recommendations were formulated for short medium and long term results
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