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December 18, 2008
That RAE analysis in full
Times: “Former polytechnics give Oxbridge a run for its money in rankings”
Guardian: ...”ex-polytechnics have failed to wrest a significant number of the stars awarded for research away from the research giants of the Russell Group of universities including Oxford and Cambridge.”
February 28, 2007
Keele Uni better than Warwick
It’s true. Well, it must be. Why else would their Vice-Chancellor award herself a 31.7% pay-rise this year? Maybe it’s because they had the UK’s fourth steepest decline in UCAS applications last year? Aw bless. At least they top a league table now.
February 14, 2007
Kids aren't as stupid as we thought they were
University degrees with significant rises in applications (2007 v 2006):
- Civil engineering 18,605 up 13%
- Economics: 37,974 up 12.8%
- Physics: 19,140 up 12.2%
- Chemistry: 20,786 up 11.3%
- Fine art: 9,703 up 10.5%
- Maths: 33,790 up 10%
- Music: 21,281 up 9.9%
- History: 6,021 up 9.2%
- English: 55,581 up 7.6%
- Biology: 23,367 up 6%
They’ve obviously noticed that if you’re graduating with tens of thousands of pounds of debt, you may as well do something useful.