>Adam, My reply was a joke too, I assure you......not that compararative
studies are a bad idea....but I weas just writing in fun......anyone for
3-star Foundation Universities (we could change Keele's name to Mid
Staffs??!!)
as ever Calum
Just to clarify, I did actually mean the message that I sent yesterday
> to be a joke. I should have learned by now that my jokes often don't
> carry too well by email (or even verbally). Close as the LSE is to my
> heart, I have actually been quite critical of league tables of this sort
> as applied to health care, and I think the same arguments probably more
> or less apply when ranking universities (although I'm generally in
> favour of ranking health care organisations within a country - I have to
> square that circle somehow - I guess it has to do with having a very
> clear consensus of what the performance criteria should be). Many of us
> try to do our best. What more can we do? I attach a very short piece
> that I wrote critiquing health care system league tables. No doubt some
> will take offence at that now too.
>
> Best,
> Adam
> <<Note for September 2010 EHPG.doc>>
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>
>
> Actually, I think we're number 1 in the universe.
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> * Latest university league table ranks LSE as third in the UK and as the
> top London university
> The Times Good Universities Guide published today ranks LSE as the third
> best university in the UK, only behind Oxford and Cambridge, and as the
> top university in London.
> LSE has therefore climbed up two places, from being ranked the fifth
> best university in the same league table in 2010, to third place this
> year.
> The School has improved in a number of the categories that are included
> in the ranking, including student satisfaction, research quality, and
> its student-staff ratio.
> The guide also shows that LSE is the university with the most
> undergraduate applications by place, with more than 14 applications for
> every place.
> Professor Stuart Corbridge, pro-director for research and external
> relations, said: 'League tables like this can offer only a partial
> snapshot of universities' performance and they must be treated with some
> caution. Nevertheless, we are very pleased to see LSE rise to third
> place in the university rankings overall, and to first place in London.
> It is particularly pleasing to see the School's high ranking in terms of
> research quality, which partly echoes the findings from the Research
> Assessment Exercise of 2008, which found LSE to have the highest
> percentage of world-leading research of all universities in the
> country.'
> The Times Good University Guide 2012 league table is available to view
> at www.thetimes.co.uk/gug
> <http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/gooduniversityguide/> .
>
>
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