The PIE Live Europe, held between March 11-12 in central London, brought together leading figures in the international education sector. Delegates at the two-day conference heard key immigration updates, debated the future of the ELT sector and highlighted the value that international students bring to the UK.
As the conference drew to a close, the winner of the event’s lifetime achievement award was revealed to be Nunzio Quacquarelli, who founded the global higher education and insights company QS in 1990.
Famed for its university rankings, QS has expanded under Quacquarelli’s leadership to employ more than 900 people from over 30 countries.
Quacqarelli said it was a “great feeling” to win the award, having been a supporter of The PIE since it was a “fledgeling business”.
On what was next for QS, he added: “We’re really committed to providing trusted data and insights to the higher education sector and we really believe in the need for universities to transform, to adopt AI – so we’ve launched a responsible AI consortium with Imperial College.
“And we really believe the need to deliver the emerging skills of the fifth industrial revolution, so we are developing huge amounts of insight on skills and occupations… to identify whatever skills are going to be demanded by employers of the future to guide curricular reform and university transformation.”
You can watch his full interview in the video below.
