🔦 AI Apprenticeships Step into the Spotlight. 🏛 Join us in DC, March 25-26 for Global Skills Week.
AI apprenticeships scale, public–private partnerships deepen, and Global Skills Week (25-26 March) brings workforce leaders to DC.
🍃 ECE enrolment in China dipped slightly. Concert fans worried about GHG emissions. Nurse demand grew.
Chart of the Day #545 looks at ECE enrolments in China, fan perception on sustainability at music concerts, and NHS nursing registrations.
Are global study destinations and degree models being rewritten at the same time?
QS Midweek Brief - February 19, 2026. Malaysia scales towards 260,000 and US institutions accelerate bachelor’s degrees into three years. What do shifting mobility patterns and compressed credentials mean?
🍃 Sweden leads in renewable energy. Switzerland UG enrolments up 10%. AU and NZ topped E-waste recycling.
Chart of the Day #544 looks at Switzerland's undergraduate enrolments, EU renewable energy, and e-waste recycling.
⚕️ WHO received $4B in funding. Global labour income share of GDP up 50%. One-fourth of ICT security uses AI.
Chart of the Day #543 Looks at the labour income share of GDP, WHO funding, and enterprises' usage of AI.
🏫 East and South-Eastern Asia lead youth literacy. Marine spatial planning is growing. E-waste is highest in AU and NZ.
Chart of the Day #542 Looks at youth literacy rate, marine spatial planning and e-waste generation.
🏭 Chinese automakers outpace rivals in hiring. NHS ambulance workers rose. Apprenticeship students rose in France.
Chart of the Day #541 looks at apprenticeships in France, NHS ambulance workers, and global employment in car manufacturing.
🤔 In the Skills Economy, which credentials will lose signaling power?
The skills challenge can’t be solved in silos.
Employers, governments, and universities are all being pushed to move faster - and work together. Join peers from around the world at Global Skills Week this March in Washington, D.C.
Two capabilities are rising to the top: AI literacy and entrepreneurial mindset
What the data is telling leaders
The skills conversation is noisy. What
🎓 Singapore undergrad enrolments rise. Power sector leads GHG emissions. Global manufacturing growth rebounds.
Chart of the Day #540 Looks at Singaporean undergraduate enrolments, global greenhouse gas emissions and manufacturing value added growth rate.
Why do countries keep writing international education strategies, and what do they really change?
QS Midweek Brief - February 12, 2026. What's the purpose of international education strategies? Also, discover the latest trends in the inaugural QS Sub-Saharan Africa Rankings.
🤖 Parents choose AI tutoring. French apprenticeships rise. Plastic credits rise in emerging economies.
Chart of the Day #539 looks at apprenticeships in France, the perception of AI replacing tutoring, and plastic credit projects.