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:
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TOP TEN
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BOTTOM TEN
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1
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Loughborough
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111
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St Mark & St John
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2
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Aston
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112
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Bolton
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3
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De Montfort
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113
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Leeds Becket
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4
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Swansea
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114
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Glyndwr
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5
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Kent
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115
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West London
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6
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Coventry
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116
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Wolverhampton
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7
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Keele
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117
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Trinity St David
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8
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Surrey
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118
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East London
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9
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Bath
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119
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Queen Margaret
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10
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Lancaster
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120
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London Met
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