+- DL Truth: Distance Learning Truth (https://www.dltruth.com)
+-- Forum: Discussion (https://www.dltruth.com/forum-6.html)
+--- Forum: General Education Discussions (https://www.dltruth.com/forum-10.html)
+--- Thread: U of Leicester - Best School??? (/thread-434.html)
U of Leicester - Best School??? - Fort Bragg - 10-29-2008
A Duggle post at degreeinfo:
http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?t=29186
"""AM
Rich Douglas Rich Douglas is offline
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 7,700
Leicester Named University of the Year
By the Times Higher Education:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=404069&navcode=98
"""
If you look at the list of 18 winners, they are all pretty decent schools but it looks like a list of the runners up. The real best British schools that I would attend were I smart like Douglas are nowhere to be seen.
RE: U of Leicester - Best School??? - ham - 10-29-2008
come think of it,
most UK universities come on top of one of these 'top tens' or another...
there are dozens of them...
RE: U of Leicester - Best School??? - Fort Bragg - 10-29-2008
ham Wrote:come think of it,
most UK universities come on top of one of these 'top tens' or another...
there are dozens of them...
I really hadn't looked at the titles of the awards - they're bullshit awards.
And to think I was going to give up the London School of Economics, Oxford, or Cambridge for Leicester. Bullshit awards! And Douglas is proud of bullshit.
RE: U of Leicester - Best School??? - Duggle - 10-29-2008
Leicester is ranked 18th in the UK here: http://www.how2uk.com/English/Times%202005.html
177th in the world here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2008/oct/09/top200.universities.worldwide
22nd in the UK here: http://www.plant-biology.com/British-university-ranking-top25.php
185th in the world here: http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_400_universities/
One of 19 "research intensive" unis in the UK here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/jun/13/highereducation.research1
Students rank Leicester first for teaching quality, personal development, academic support and overall satisfaction amongst universities teaching full-time students in the National Student Survey: http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2005/09/nparticle-km6-wpm-4dd
Enjoy.
RE: U of Leicester - Best School??? - ham - 10-30-2008
http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2009
Guardian 2009 tables.
Well, many university sites use doctored or partial statements (for example, bits of statements from different reviews pertaining to different years ).
In fact I don't think there is one UK university that doesn't brag about good placement on this or that list.