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Oxford University is the best place in Europe to study social sciences and the second best place to study social sciences in the world, according to Times Higher Education University ranking. MIT was ranked best in the world, whilst Cambridge University was ranked 5th. The social science ranking is calculated in the same way as […]
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New College has jumped to the top of the Norrington Table this year with 79.12 percent, knocking Merton into second place with 78.99 percent and Pembroke coming third with 77.47 percent. Of the 114 finalists of New College, 57 achieved Firsts, making them the only college to obtain more Firsts than Upper Seconds. Merton won […]
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The government has announced that it will create a new Olympic-style league table for universities, ranking them bronze, silver or gold based on teaching quality. They will be available for students applying to start university in autumn 2017. The new ratings form part of the government’s Teaching excellence framework (Tef) and will come into being […]
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Every year the Norrington Table is released, an oft-cited and even more frequently bemoaned system for ranking Oxford colleges based on their exam results. But what if this system was based, not on exams, but your vote on vegetables? Hence the new ‘Vegetarian Norrington Table’ proposed by Oxford University Animal Ethics Society, a group created […]
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Oxford University has overtaken Cambridge to take the number one ranking for the quality and extent of its research. The Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Research Excellence Framework measured the quality of research from more than 52,000 academics in 154 universities to reveal that Oxford has the largest volume of world-leading research in the […]
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