CEO Agenda

Having worked with hundreds of companies, senior executives and leadership teams one topic that is always difficult to broach is accountability. Many people don't understand what accountability is, why it's important, or where it starts. Yes they understand accountability is important, but don't know how to create a culture of accountability, they just hope it...

In total, 10 British universities appear in the Global University Employability Ranking 2018, a new report on world rankings suggests. The University of Cambridge came out as the top university for graduate employability in the United Kingdom, followed by the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. The 2018 rankings placed King’s...

In total, 10 French universities appear in the Global University Employability Ranking 2018, a new report on world rankings suggests. HEC Paris came out as the top university for graduate employability in France, followed by École Polytechnique and Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (PSL). The 2018 rankings placed Mines ParisTech (PSL)...

94 percent of teachers claim that the modern student has started to equate the concept of research with a Google search or with looking up a Wikipedia entry, according to a study conducted by Pew Research in conjunction with College Board. In recent years, EdTech is shaping up to be...

In total, ten universities from the Nordic region appear in the Global University Employability Ranking 2018, according to The Times Higher Education’s (THE) Global Employability Rankings 2018. In 45th place worldwide, Stockholm University is the best in the Nordic region and the 13th best in continental Europe. The ranking reveals...

What is one major thing that any student completely despises in their educational period? Well, you guessed it! It is none other than that of the assignments. Well, assignments are nothing less than that of stress and trauma for the students. But it should not be that way at all....

In the previous article on geopolitical risk published in CEOWorld magazine, the elements needed to identify, quantify and prioritise the risks that a company faces were introduced. These comprise their probability of a risk occurring, its likely impact on a company, its resilience and its overall appetite for risk. This...

When running a business, it’s easy to get lost in the numbers and focus solely on the bottom line. But not everything can be measured in spreadsheets or neatly laid out in infographics. There are substantial elements of a successful company that can’t be monitored through traditional metrics, and though...

The University of Toronto (U of T) has once again nabbed first place in an annual rankings of top 50 research universities in Canada, according to the latest rankings released by Research Infosource. The research funding at the U of T jumped by $139.3 million — from $1,008,256 to $1,147,584...

American and British institutions are struggling to keep pace with global universities in preparing workplace-ready graduates, according to The Times Higher Education’s (THE) Global Employability Rankings 2018. The United States, which has traditionally dominated the rankings, now has 34 institutions in the top 150, down from 55 in 2011. Meanwhile,...