[Academic] Request for contacts for QS World Rankings 2023 - Deadline Monday 5 December

Wed Nov 30 17:08:19 GMT 2022

Thank you Gabrielle.
Can I ask what QS stands for?
Some dodgy Italian company?
Best wishes,
Gian-Luca

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From: Academic <academic-bounces at phys.strath.ac.uk> on behalf of Gabrielle Weir <gabrielle.weir at strath.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:40:57 PM
To: Academic Staff (academic at phys.strath.ac.uk) <academic at phys.strath.ac.uk>
Subject: [Academic] Request for contacts for QS World Rankings 2023 - Deadline Monday 5 December

Dear members of Academic Staff,

QS World University Rankings 2023

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.

To this end, please would you add the details of your new, key strategic, academic and industry partners on to the attached (working copy) spreadsheets bearing the following in mind:

·       Provide both UK-based and international employer contacts. 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.

·       In the academic survey, 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.

  *   The level of seniority of the contacts is not a consideration for QS. 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.

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 new names we supply with a survey in order to compile the league table at www.topuniversities.com<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>.

Because of the data protection law, the deadline is extremely tight to allow Strategy and Policy time to gain consent from each contact before passing details on to QS.  Please update the attached spreadsheet  and return it to me by Monday 5th December 2022.  I will then collate the departmental response and return it to Strategy and Policy.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

I really appreciate your help with this,

Gabrielle

Gabrielle Weir

Physics Department Manager

Faculty of Science | University of Strathclyde

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