Original sentence: Brookes prides itself especially on the quality of its real estate, engineering, modern languages, history, art and economics departments: Brookes's history department gained a higher research rating in an assessment exercise than that of the University of Oxford
Edited sentence: Brookes prides itself especially on the quality of its real estate, engineering, modern languages, history, art and economics departments: in a popular story run by the British media, Brookes's history department gained a higher research rating in an assessment exercise than that of the University of Oxford