Insights for impact: APAC - (on demand)
Published On: October 18, 2023
Join our webinar for a 60-minute summary of the changes, challenges and opportunities impacting the higher education landscape in APAC. There will also be an opportunity for Q&A with our experts.
By attending, you’ll gain actionable insights to help you improve your institution’s global reputation, performance and internationalisation.
Our expert panel members will share insights on the following topics.
- Changes in the higher education environment – shifts in international student flows and how the APAC higher education sector is set up to operate in an increasingly competitive international student recruitment environment.
- Exploring emerging trends – employability and sustainability and how institutions and the sector are responding.
- Shifts in student demands – the profile of students, prospective student decision-making and the role of rankings and third-party accreditations in influencing where students choose to study.
- How to increase global reputation – the role reputation plays in student decision-making and student recruitment, and how institutions perform compared to their peers.
- Partnership opportunities – where most research partnerships thrive, how APAC’s institutions compare against peers on international research network strength and the link between research and reputation and student recruitment trends.
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Our Panel Member - Jeroen Prinsen |
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Jeroen heads the commercial operations for QS Quacquarelli Symonds in the Asia Pacific Region. As the head of APAC, Jeroen oversees the regional customer facing teams engaging in QS Services to the Higher Education sector and associated businesses. Jeroen works across the QS portfolio to ensure customers are able to achieve their strategic goals on a world scale through Analytics, Performance, Recruitment & Reputation building services. Previously Jeroen operated a leading performance and analytics business in the APAC region and has over 20 years experience supporting Universities, Governments & Businesses operating in the Research & Commercialisation Ecosystem across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in addition to Asia. |
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Our Panel Member - Alex Berka |
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With over ten years of experience working in market research, Alex is the Insights Manager at QS and oversees the analysis and design of a range of research projects they conduct. Alex has previously been part of a number of market research agencies, working with a diverse range of clients across multiple sectors. Since joining QS in 2017, he has managed the International Student Survey - the world’s largest survey of pre-enrolled international students, and the Employers Survey - the world’s largest survey of graduate employers. Alex’s work on these surveys focuses on bringing the student and employer viewpoints to life, ensuring their voices are heard across the sector and highlighting how their expectations align (or do not align) with those of universities. He is well versed in drawing actionable insights from surveys and the findings of his analysis have been covered in a variety of industry publications, including PIE news and Study International, as well as wider news publications, including The Financial Times. |
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Our Panel Member - Chris Strods |
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As Senior Insights Specialist at QS, Chris Strods works to use QS proprietary data, synthesised with external and third-party datasets, to produce insights that help guide university decision-making and to understand the future trends that will shape the sector. Chris is a data scientist and experienced market researcher who has conducted qualitative and quantitative strategic research for commercial, not-for-profit, government and political organisations. He is passionate about using data to go ‘beyond the obvious’ to understand institutional performance and student behaviour. |
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