{"id":975,"date":"2025-06-30T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/?p=975"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:18:18","slug":"showcasing-success-university-of-bath-iro-team-attends-the-qs-summit-europe-2025-as-the-university-achieves-132-global-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/2025\/06\/30\/showcasing-success-university-of-bath-iro-team-attends-the-qs-summit-europe-2025-as-the-university-achieves-132-global-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcasing Success: University of Bath IRO team attends the QS Summit: Europe 2025 as the University achieves 132 global ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-teams=\"true\">The QS Higher Education Summit: Europe 2025 brought together higher education leaders from all over Europe and globally to share the latest trends in student recruitment, discuss new strategies, and discover how technology, data, and design can help with institutional performance goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-976 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-Blog-Feature-16-9-cropped-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-Blog-Feature-16-9-cropped-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-Blog-Feature-16-9-cropped-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-Blog-Feature-16-9-cropped-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-Blog-Feature-16-9-cropped-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-Blog-Feature-16-9-cropped-2048x1151.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-Blog-Feature-16-9-cropped-382x215.png 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><span data-teams=\"true\">From 16-17 June D\u00f6rte Stevenson (Interim Director of International Relations) and Oleksandra Tarchenko (International Rankings Project Manager) from the International Relations Office, along with colleagues Junjie Shen (Research Analytics Librarian) and Emma Senior (Research Marketing Manager in the School of Management), attended the summit which was held in Porto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-979 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Dorte-Panel-QS-16-9-Crop-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Dorte-Panel-QS-16-9-Crop-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Dorte-Panel-QS-16-9-Crop-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Dorte-Panel-QS-16-9-Crop-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Dorte-Panel-QS-16-9-Crop-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Dorte-Panel-QS-16-9-Crop-382x215.png 382w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Dorte-Panel-QS-16-9-Crop.png 1964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span data-teams=\"true\">Over the course of the two days, the team attended a series of panel sessions and masterclasses, connecting with colleagues and sharing best practice with them. Both colleagues from the IRO had been invited to speak; D\u00f6rte was part of a panel discussion on \u2018Shaping the future of student mobility\u2019 together with four other speakers, including colleagues from the British Council and the Portuguese National Agency for Erasmus+.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-983 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Sasha-QS-Crop-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Sasha-QS-Crop-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Sasha-QS-Crop-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Sasha-QS-Crop-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Sasha-QS-Crop-382x215.jpg 382w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Sasha-QS-Crop.jpg 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/>Oleksandra presented as part of the QS Analytics user community, sharing with the audience how the University uses data-driven insights to improve our global visibility.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandra commented:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"What an incredible experience to attend the QS Higher Education Summit together with my colleagues from Bath. I'm taking home some wonderful insights from the sessions attended, ranging from AI, data and partnerships to the skills that students require to succeed upon graduation.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-988 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS-121x215.jpg 121w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/QS.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D\u00f6rte added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-teams=\"true\">\"It really was a very full and thought provoking programme. A fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues and hear about all that is going on in the global higher education sector.\"<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The QS Higher Education Summit: Europe 2025 brought together higher education leaders from all over Europe and globally to share the latest trends in student recruitment, discuss new strategies, and discover how technology, data, and design can help with institutional...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,2,4,16],"tags":[48,44,41],"coauthors":[128],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","category-event","category-international-strategy","category-partnership","tag-international","tag-international-relations-office","tag-partnerships"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2025\/06\/Feature-Image-QS.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}