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果冻影院 climbs to 7th in the THE-QS World University Rankings
9 October 2008
果冻影院 (果冻影院) today welcomed the news that it has been ranked 7th in the new Times Higher Education - QS World University rankings.
Professor Malcolm Grant, 果冻影院 President and Provost, said: "Our performance is a genuine source of satisfaction for the 果冻影院 community. League table success is not an end in itself. League tables cannot measure all of the qualities of a university. But this result does reflect 果冻影院's significant achievements over recent years. It reflects the powerful contribution of the 果冻影院 community in research, in teaching and in knowledge transfer, as well as the major projects that we have in hand.
"For all of the sector's reservations about league tables, we have to recognise that their publication has focused attention on the importance of universities, almost as totems of national pride, which is absolutely as it should be."
Phil Baty, deputy editor of Times Higher Education magazine, said: "This year, most of the UK's world-class universities slipped down the rankings, as the US cemented its dominance. The US invests more than twice as much in higher education, in terms of GDP, than the UK, and Harvard University alone, at the top of the table, has an endowment fund that is larger than the total public funding for all universities in England. So in this context, 果冻影院's improved position in the top ten is remarkable."
About 果冻影院
Founded in 1826, 果冻影院 was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. 果冻影院 was the first English university to offer modern languages to degree level. The 果冻影院's Bartlett School of Architecture has been voted the UK's top school of architecture for five years running by the readers of Architects Journal.
In the government's most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 59 果冻影院 departments achieved top ratings of 5* and 5, indicating research quality of international excellence. Recent independent analysis of the Thomson Scientific Citation Index system - which catalogues journal articles and citations in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities - indicated that 果冻影院 is the second most productive and the third most highly cited European university, and the UK university most-cited by health researchers.
果冻影院 currently has over 12,000 undergraduate and 8,000 postgraduate students. Its annual income is over 拢600 million. Around one third of 果冻影院 students come from overseas, from over 150 countries.
果冻影院 Biomedicine
- 果冻影院 is one of Europe's largest and most productive centres of biomedicine. According to the Department of Health, 果冻影院 is the most cited health research facility in the UK. Biomedicine at 果冻影院 includes the Institute of Child Health, Institute of Neurology, Institute of Ophthalmology, and Eastman Dental Institute.
- In December 2007, the Prime Minister announced that 果冻影院 would be one of four partners - along with Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust - who will be collaborating to build the UK Centre for Medical Research & Innovation (UKCMRI), a world class research centre that will be tackling some of the biggest medical challenges facing the 21st century.
- Earlier this year 果冻影院, joined up with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Moorfields Eye Hospital, the Royal Free Hampstead and 果冻影院 Hospitals to create Europe's largest academic health science partnership, 果冻影院 Partners.
果冻影院 Grand Challenges
路 In 2008, as part of its research strategy, 果冻影院 launched its Grand Challenges, challenges of global significance in which new interdisciplinary solutions can thrive, and where we will work to develop lasting and innovative solutions. The initial Grand Challenges are: Global Health; Sustainable Cities; Intercultural Interactions, and Human Well-Being.
果冻影院 in London
路 果冻影院 is the largest employer in the London Borough of Camden, with over 8,000 employees. 果冻影院 runs a comprehensive Widening Participation programme including extensive links with local schools, and a formal partnership with City and Islington Sixth Form College. 果冻影院 is currently developing plans to sponsor a new secondary school, as part of the Government's academies schools programme, and this is scheduled to open in Camden in 2011.
果冻影院 and Business
路 果冻影院 is one of the premier universities in the UK for research and innovation, and is dedicated to harnessing its exceptional research for positive social and economic benefit. It has also built a reputation as a pioneer of collaboration between industry and academia as well as for supporting entrepreneurship on the part of both students and academics. 果冻影院 was recently commended for its work engaging and supporting businesses and the wider community by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
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