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<span dir="auto" style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Thank you Gabrielle.</span>
<div dir="auto" style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Can I ask what QS stands for?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Some dodgy Italian company?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Best wi<span>shes,<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:40:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Academic Staff (academic@phys.strath.ac.uk) <academic@phys.strath.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Academic] Request for contacts for QS World Rankings 2023 - Deadline Monday 5 December</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Dear members of
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<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">QS World University Rankings 2023</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have been asked to collate the annual update for the QS World University Rankings. This year, the University has changed its approach in a bid to increase the number of votes we get from
among our named contacts as this could have a significant effect on our ranking, and in turn improve international recruitment.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To this end,
<b>please would you add the details of your <u>new</u>, key strategic, academic and industry partners on to the attached (working copy) spreadsheets
</b>bearing the following in mind:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Provide both
<b><u>UK-based and international employer contacts</u></b>. All employers, regardless of location, are given equal weighting, and so this could be a contact at a local school who employs our graduates, or a small business that like to employ Strathclyde graduates
– any person you think is likely to vote for us would be hugely helpful. A CEO of a large company is unlikely to have time to take part in a survey, but your local contact is more likely to have time and think of us when asked about universities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In the
<b>academic survey</b>, there is an 85% weighting for international contacts. This means we generally ask for international contacts to be returned to us. However, if you have a UK-based contact who you think would vote for Strathclyde, then do share their
contact details as this is more useful than an international contact who won’t vote for us.
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<li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The level of seniority of the contacts is not a consideration for QS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.
An early career researcher who votes for us is weighted in the same way as a professor, and so we would be grateful if you could bear this in mind when providing contacts – it is the number of votes that we are scored on, and not the level of seniority of
the person, of the prestige of the organisation they work for. </span></li></ul>
<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As a reminder, I have attached a separate spreadsheet showing the names returned in the last 5 years. QS will contact a sample of the
<u>new</u> names we supply with a survey in order to compile the league table at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.topuniversities.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cg.l.oppo%40strath.ac.uk%7C9d4224c33b804ac78c2508dad2f1cbe3%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638054233324476978%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XVIywmIsmBUVqGIRaAcVUbWDUoJNAU%2Bdc86BUvXtsnE%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://www.topuniversities.com/" shash="FqWhGMEmKAbpvBMNxSE4k/bbBJOtmGztC/mrzDQ+tfD+WAtW9CU4UQfWqu20925BDNz55KVBIyH1JAzrZYRIjMafT6KtMvWsglbOfDYUxVYs/XTo5LqvCikaBgMvPCbOk9br7lE4reJmJMobzIShvP4I+FDbi9lR7RqjlromovI=">
www.topuniversities.com</a>. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xxmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Because of
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">t</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">he data protection law, the deadline is extremely tight to allow Strategy and Policy time to gain consent
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">from each contact before passing details on to
<span style="color:black">QS. </span><b>Please update the attached spreadsheet and return it to me by<span class="x_xxapple-style-span"><span style="color:#44546A">
</span><u><span style="color:red">Monday 5<sup>th</sup> December 2022</span></u></span></b><span class="x_xxapple-style-span"><span style="color:red">.
</span></span><span style="color:black">I will then collate the departmental response and return it to Strategy and Policy.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="x_xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="x_xxapple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have any questions, please let me know.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="x_xxapple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I really appreciate your help with this,</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="x_xxapple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gabrielle</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Gabrielle Weir</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Physics Department Manager</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"></span></p>
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