On October 4th Quacquarelli Symonds, an education consultancy, published the first regional ranking of Latin American universities, combining measures of reputation, research output, academics' qualifications and staff-student ratios.

ECONOMIST: Universities in Latin America

The usefulness of this research lies in its attempt to understand the trade-offs between work hours, employment, productivity, output and wages.

ECONOMIST: Labour markets

This problem is even more pressing now that many cash-strapped universities are making IP a key focus of efforts to more effectively leverage their research output.

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