SEOUL, South Korea,
June 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- How
should universities evolve and innovate as the world enters a new
phase with the fourth industrial revolution, accelerated by the
COVID-19 pandemic? World's Universities with Real Impact (WURI)
invites educators, researchers, data scientists, and professionals
of diverse fields to engage in answering this complex question at a
virtual conference to be held on June
11, 3 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST) and
10 pm Korea Standard Time (KST).
WURI is a new university ranking system which was announced to
be developed last year at the 2nd Hanseatic League of Universities
(HLU) Conference held at Incheon National
University, South Korea, to
overcome the limitations of existing methods of evaluating and
ranking universities. According to WURI, the existing university
rankings heavily weigh on research performance, measured by the
number of research papers, and traditional methods of
knowledge-transfer. Therefore, they do not properly assess agile
and innovative programs of universities in the current era of
change.
The need for a new approach to evaluate the institutions of
higher education has long been voiced by the society. Particularly
with the advent of the 4th industrial revolution that shifted our
perspectives on human talent and management, educators and
institutions have been gearing efforts to change school programs
and curricula to meet the demands of the corporate world and
society. Minerva Schools is a good
example. Currently, without having any classrooms in seven
different countries they operate in, Minerva Schools has dorms for the students to
dwell in while focusing on
education for business ventures and industry competitiveness.
The existing rankings provide important insight into the
research efforts of universities; however, they inadequately
represent the overall social impact by the universities as
effective educational institutions. To meet this need, WURI was
developed as an alternative system for extant university rankings,
which examines the innovative programs of universities. WURI
ranking has three core evaluation categories and a new one which is
added each year. For 2020 ranking, the four categories WURI
highlights are as follows:
- Industrial applications, rather than the traditional ways of
counting research papers and lecture-type teaching.
- Value-creating startups and entrepreneurship, rather than a
traditional focus on the number of jobs filled.
- Social responsibility, ethics, and integrity, rather than a
focus on knowledge and skills just for material success.
- Student mobility and openness for exchange and collaboration
between schools and across national borders, rather than an
independent yet closed system.
Based on expert surveys from the university presidents,
chancellors, and representatives, the WURI evaluation system
adopted the Text Informational Analysis (TIA) for the qualitative
aspects of analysis. In addition, the data collected by WURI to
generate the rankings will be shared on Kaggle, the global platform
for data sharing and prediction model development, in order to open
the data on university performance to the public and facilitate
participation of data scientists around the world in refining the
system.
This is an exciting development that promotes universities to
innovate the way they foster human capital for the changing world
and utilize their resources most efficiently and meaningfully.
The inaugural virtual conference on June
11 will introduce the new ranking system and provide an
outlook on the challenges and opportunities for higher education
institutions. This will be a valuable chance to learn about the
innovative practices of universities that preceding rankings did
not reflect and to participate in discussion with experts and
professionals around the world on universities' role in the
future.
The event is organized by four global institutions:
- Hanseatic League of Universities (HLU)
- Institute for Policy and Strategy on National Competitiveness
(IPSNC)
- United Nations Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR)
- Taylor Institute (TI) of Franklin
University in Switzerland
(FUS)
To register, please click this link:
http://bitly.kr/59TWCBeJMr
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