AUA 2007 League Tables

League Tables: valuable market information or dangerous nonsense? Dr Paul Greatrix, Registrar, The University of Nottingham Dr Tony Rich, Registrar and Secretary, University of Essex

League Tables ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Background ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Who wants to know? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Who’s responsible for providing this valuable data? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Invaluable information ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

League tables are a bad thing... “ The silly season that marks the publication of University league tables is nonsensical and illogical. As any New Scientist knows, letters into numbers; quality into quantity won’t go. League tables are simplistic, divisive and undermine the qualitative nature of a University’s work”

But we’ll use them anyway! “ Having said that, I’m not ashamed to report that we came a very creditable 79 th overall, with my own department rating a particularly good score for research - and as I remarked to the Dean, you can’t get much better than that.”

Dangerous... ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

... extremely dangerous... ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Times 2006 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],11 Edinburgh 12 Royal Holloway 13 Aston 14 Nottingham 15 York 16 Cardiff 17= UEA 17= King’s 19= SOAS, Leicester, St Andrews

Sunday Times 2006 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],11 Bath 12 Nottingham 13 King’s 14 Edinburgh 15 Manchester 16 Southampton 17 Loughborough 18 Exeter 19 UEA 20 Sheffield

The Guardian 2006 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],11 Nottingham 12 Surrey 13 Bristol 14 Manchester 15 York 16 Birmingham 17 Leeds 18 Goldsmiths 19 Aston 20 Royal Holloway

Financial Times 2003 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],11 UMIST 12 Bath 13 Loughborough 14 Edinburgh 15 Manchester 16 Birmingham 17 SOAS 18 Leicester 19 St Andrews 20 Southampton

‘ Poll of polls’ (Daily Telegraph 2003) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],11 SOAS 12 Bath 13 Birmingham 14 Loughborough 15 King’s 16 = Durham 16= St Andrews 18= Southampton 18= Edinburgh 20 Sheffield

Times Higher World Rankings 2006 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Shanghai Jiao Tong 2006 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

And a completely different approach: UEL: TQ in the South East 2005 Surplus of good practice over recommendations (in QAA audit reports) 1 East London 4 2 King's College London 2 3 Brunel 2 4 Queen Mary, London 0 5 Kent 0 6 Hertfordshire 0 7 Royal Holloway -1 8 London South Bank -3 9 Greenwich -6 10 Essex -6 11 Anglia Polytechnic -9

Different approaches 1 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Different approaches 2 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

International approaches 1 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

International approaches 2 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The critical factors (by frequency of appearance in the tables) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

One-offs (only appeared in one UK table) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

An indicator too far (not covered in the UK tables - yet) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],But international tables will increasingly influence methodologies of UK tables

Conclusions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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