找不到具体的TABLE，只有这篇文章。哪位找到了贴上来吧。
Cambridge on top, but new universities on the rise
Rebecca Smithers
Tuesday May 25, 2004
Cambridge once again tops the Guardian's annual university league tables, published today, which despite little change in the "top 10" show many former polytechnics out-performing their more established rivals with the quality of their teaching.
For the second year running Oxford has to settle for second place, while specialist London institutions such as Imperial College, the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) and the London School of Economics continue to dominate the top of the tables.
The tables, which assess institutions' quality of teaching, are intended to be a guide for undergraduates choosing full-time degrees at universities and higher education colleges and do not include any research data. Our tables have been compiled by Campus π, a department of Brunel university.
In a minor reshuffle within the top 10, Nottingham has dropped out to 11th position and its place taken by Manchester. The relatively small University of Aston rises to an impressive 13th in the overall ranking, also scoring highly in the separate, subject tables where it ranks second in both chemical engineering and biosciences after, respectively, Cambridge and Oxford.
Newer universities, or former polytechnics, are creeping up the overall rankings while also performing respectably in individual subject areas (listed in full at EducationGuardian.co.uk). Middlesex is the highest ranking former polytechnic in the overall table, in 19th position, followed by Oxford Brookes in 26th. Thereafter there is a major cluster comprising Bournemouth, East London, Westminster, Central England (one of Britain's biggest universities) and Surrey.
In terms of the quality of teaching in individual subjects there are some surprises. In the leading 10 for politics, for example, is now the University of East London, which also ranks a respectable 10th in architecture and building and 14th for biosciences. Luton - two years ago at the centre of controversy for closing many of its humanities courses - is ranked 5th for teaching quality in architecture and building, while Middlesex tops the league for community studies and social work, followed by Sheffield Hallam and Anglia Polytechnic University (APU) in sixth and seventh position. Bolton Institute - recently given official university status - and Wolverhampton both feature in the top 10 for quality of philosophy teaching.
The traditional Oxbridge stranglehold at the top of the tables in many subjects is broken in civil engineering and mechanical engineering - where London's Imperial College comes first in both cases - and in modern languages by Swansea. One of the few subject areas where neither Oxford nor Cambridge feature in the top 10 is American Studies, where King's College London is in pole position, followed by Warwick and then Keele.
The tables use official data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa), although for this year's tables we have slightly changed our methodology and reduced the weighting given to Teaching Quality assessment (TQA) teaching scores from 40% to 22%. For the first time we are using a new indicator of inclusiveness, which is an indicator of mature, disabled and ethnic minority students. All institutions were invited to check their data and only one university - London Metropolitan - had profound disagreements with our methodology. As a result, it has refused us permission to use its data.
As well as the listings and an A- Z of where to study, the website contains fuller tables. For the latest rankings, log on to Education.Guardian.co.uk/guides. |
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