Contents
The Cover
First day on campus Universities in the northern hemisphere are preparing to welcome new students onto campus for the first time. Success starts from day one and setting students up to achieve that success means orientation activities.
The Dispatch
Mental health support services on campus Numerous surveys indicate significant numbers of students are struggling with mental health at university. A concern exacerbated during the pandemic, universities now must prepare new students for the challenges that can come with studying abroad for the first time.
Behind the scenes Orientation can take a village. We explore the year-long preparations universities undertake to help students succeed.
The Brief
The UK will need to fill more than 11 million extra graduate positions by 2035. We explore how the country plans to use universities to fill that gap.
The Headlines
Welcome Accord! The Australian Universities Accord interim report has released and the country's higher ed sector looks set to plot a new course.
A false dream? The UK government has set its eyes on tackling "low quality" degrees. How has this goal been received by the sector?
The Profile
Young at heart IFRC's Simon Missiri talks about his career, going back to university, and how education has helped him.
The Region
Filling in the gaps: Japan's student problem New figures from the Japanese government show worrying signs of a shrinking student body by 2050. International students might be the answer.
The View
What Gen Z's vision means for higher ed A new generation of students is entering business schools and their expectations are more nuanced than those before them.
Contributors
Editor in Chief Anton John Crace
Deputy Editor Afifah Darke
Content Manager Khushboo Singh
Writers Ant Bagshaw Gauri Kohli Eugenia Lim Seb Murray Niamh Ollerton Nalisha Patel
Marketing and PR Serena Ricci Mak Leeson
Cover Alessandro Messina
Design Kek Yea Yin
Sales contact sales@qs.com
The QS Insights Magazine is a monthly, online and print publication that highlights trends within the international education sector.
The online edition is emailed to our network of academics and university leaders worldwide. A limited number of selected copies of the print edition are also sent to university leaders around the world and distributed at QS events.
The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of QS Quacquarelli Symonds.