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slapntickle · Joined: 07 Sep 2010 Posts: 270

There are now just nine UK universities in the world's top 100, compared to 10 last year and 12 in 2011. The University of Leeds dropped out this year, joining the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Sheffield who fell last year.

http://www.ucu.org.uk/6533

It won't be long before the UK has only two universities in the top 100 and we all know which ones they are, right?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

End of Empire. We are no longer "Top Nation." We passed that role on to the US because we did not want the Germans to have it. Germany is now a cilvilised, developed high-tech State, while the UKofGB&NI is rapidly goung down the tubes.

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK

scot 47 wrote :

[/quote] Germany is now a cilvilised, high-tech state (sic)[quote]

So how come that Germany only has 5 universities in the top 100?

The UK can never compete with the US, where everyone pays massive fees of up to $50,000 a year for university education.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

The only people I have met who have any faith in these academic league tables are senior Saudi administraors in Saudi universities.

I rsst my case.

slapntickle · Joined: 07 Sep 2010 Posts: 270

What's interesting is that the Asia region has 15 universities in the top 100, which seems to correlate with their rise in economic power in the world. Watch that number increase over the next decade.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:28 pm Post subject:

Germany a high-tech state? Not too slick when it comes to computers though, it seems to me...

Great beer, however!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Good railways. And ladies.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:21 am Post subject:

Symphonies and orchestra conductors are top-notch too.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

They used to make good tanks but made the mistake of focussing on quality when quantity was needed.