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LA TROBE VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAM La Trobe University’s envisions itself as being one of the top 300 schools internationally. To do this, it needs to improve on some aspects of its business to get a higher score from international university ranking publishers. One of the most influential publishers is the British Quacquarelli Symonds, issuer of the QS World University Rankings. The university’s QS world rank is in a steady decline from its 205th rank in 2007 to its current rank which sits just outside the top 400 (Quacquarelli Symonds, 2014). To stop this trend, all of La Trobe’s faculties should improve in the six criteria QS use to rank universities. Two of these criteria rely heavily on the quality of graduates as perceived by employers…

college of Art and Design in the 2016 QS World University Subject Rankings. The RCA takes the top spot over top-positioning colleges including MIT, Stanford, Yale and Rhode Island School of Design. This is the second support of the RCA in the same number of weeks: the Chancellor George Osborne promised £54 million in a week ago's financial plan to manufacture another Royal College of Art (RCA) grounds in north Battersea including a lead place for postgraduate understudies, specialists and…

Expectations vs Reality: The dilemma of international students-Hemant shares his story. By Mercy Addo and Hemant Odhrani 22 September, 2017 There is a saying that the eminence of your expectations defines the quality of your actions. It has been concluded that the secret to a good self-esteem is lowering your expectations in everything and making it achievable. To Hemant Odhrani, the thought of negative expectations is unavoidable when you are an international student. “…when I read my…