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Saturday 16 July 2016

ANOTHER new league table for universities ...

Researchers from the Times Higher Education supplement (THE) have used the same criteria that will be employed for the teaching excellence framework (TEF), student satisfaction, graduate employment and retention, to create a new league table. The new table judged Cambridge to be 12th, whilst Oxford was 28th, and Imperial College 37th, Loughborough, Aston and De Montfort were the top three. There were no Russell Group universities in the top ten and just three, Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham, made it into the top 20. The TEF is to be the main criteria of whether universities are allowed to raise their fees and thus is a very important benchmark. The TEF is to be piloted in 2016-2018, before formal assessment begins in 2018-19.  See below for the best and worst performers in the table:

TOP TEN


BOTTOM TEN
1
Loughborough

111
St Mark & St John
2
Aston

112
Bolton
3
De Montfort

113
Leeds Becket
4
Swansea

114
Glyndwr
5
Kent

115
West London
6
Coventry

116
Wolverhampton
7
Keele

117
Trinity St David
8
Surrey

118
East London
9
Bath

119
Queen Margaret
10
Lancaster

120
London Met