🍃 Electricity leads renewable integration. Global upper secondary completion at 60%. EU and North America led R&D.
Chart of the Day #552 looks at Upper secondary education, renewable integration and R&D expenditure.
🍃 Super Bowl pulled in >600 private jets. Zero sugar soda outsold regular soda. Primary school English training declined.
Chart of the Day #551 looks at English language training in British schools, private jet arrivals for the Super Bowl, and Pepsi and Coca Cola soda sales.
🤖 North America tops AI use for sports. Off shelve alcohol sales. Latino and Hispanic employment >60%.
Chart of the Day #550 looks at employment–population ratio of Latino and Hispanic communities, alcoholic drink sales volumes and AI usage in sports
🏭 EVs at depreciation risk. Residential solar costed <$4 per watt. Netherlands led in English proficiency.
Chart of the Day #549 looks at English proficiency scores, residential solar costs in the US, and depreciation of types of vehicles.
💼 Labour informality persists. Family planning goals globally. Wage growth for AI roles in energy.
Chart of the Day #548 looks at labour informality, family planning among women and wage rises among AI skilled workers.
🍃 Oceania tops water efficiency. Sub-Saharan Africa lags in primary completion. Biomass usage nears 30B tons.
Chart of the Day #547 looks at primary education rates, water-use efficiency and domestic material consumption.
🏭 EU led in download speeds. Increased student flows from Vietnam into Japan. US cities experience more snowfall.
Chart of the Day #546 looks at Vietnamese student enrolments in Japan, internet download speeds in countries, and snowfall in the US.
🔦 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.