Talk:Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom

message: I have re-introduced Southampton which was ranked higher than either Bristol or Edinburgh, and was just 1 point below Bath (Sunday Times league table, 2002). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.18.145 (talk) 12:12, 30 November 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: But Southampton only did well in the Sunday Times table. It does not usually make the top 20 in any other tables. The Sutton Trust results should be used as they constitute a formal calculation. Please don't alter or delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.32.128.73 (talk) 23:16, 20 January 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Southampton

message: Isnt the Sunday times and the Times league tables the same? MikeyB! 20:21, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Times and Sunday Times produce different rankings. Personally id say the ST ones are slightly better but either is infinitely more reliable than the ludicrous Grauniad effort. I do find it suspicious that Oxford can be so consistently ranked no.1 overall when it is nowhere near Cambridge in terms of number of subjects for which it is ranked as no.1 . siarach 18:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Same tables?

message: For the fifth consecutive year Oxford has been placed first in the United Kingdom in the Times Good University Guide (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (sic)).
 Further, is the Times Good University Guide not the most respected guide? I just wonder if there is a bit of pro-Cambridge casuistry going on with this argument about the Times GUG concentrating more weight on central funding and hence under-estimating Cambridge. Oxford has the monopoly on Jesuitical practices!--195.92.67.74 01:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have to agree there's a pro-Cambridge bias in this article... it's rather blatant! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.179.66.110 (talk) 18:05, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cambridge fares better?

message: The article claims that their top ranking "allows them to attract the best students...".  Any evidence for that? I would presume that they would carry on attracting the best students as they always have with or without league tables!Billlion 06:03, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Oxford and Cambridge

message: Ive noticed this is not sourced or citied, nor can I find on the web this calculation both from search engines, or from the sutton trust site itself.194.176.105.40 04:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sutton trust top 13 

message: The text says "six" but seven are listed as bullets - it's a bit confusing.  Any idea which is correct?
90.196.191.143 (talk) 00:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many criteria for Guardian rankings? 

message: Below is University College London's President and Provost concise and poignant opinion on university league tables. I think it should be added to the article's Criticisms section.
http://soundcloud.com/uclsound/ucl-president-and-provost-on/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.138.150 (talk) 20:27, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something substantial to add to the Criticisms section 

message: "The Guardian league table has a peculiar habit of ranking quite highly courses given by departments that have recently closed down. For example mathematics at Bangor[22] which closed in 2006 was rated fifth in the UK in the "2008" league table, Hull also did reasonably well considering it too no longer had a mathematics department or degree.[23] The Guardian later published a correction.[24]"
I'm not so sure that to say "the Guardian league table has a peculiar habit of ranking quite highly...." is particularly encyclopedic - to me it comes across as a slightly snide remark...
--Maxjjazz (talk) 13:14, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed it, it was trivial and undue in any case, and not really a criticism of the ranking merely an error in one in a single year.Rangoon11 (talk) 13:17, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guardian section 

message: Could someone explain why Heriot-Watt University does not appear in the last year's "The Sunday Times University Guide" as the 29th best university in the UK? This year it was announced as the best Scottish university for the second year in a row and as the fourth best UK university. Yet there is no mention of this in this article at all. Here is a link to BBC which cites the Sunday Times: Heriot-Watt University: Scottish University of the Year I have also received confirmation of this from our Principal (Heriot-Watt). Flamdring (talk) 13:22, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are confusing the student satisfaction ranking with the overall ranking by the Sunday Times, of which the student satisfaction ranking is just one input.Rangoon11 (talk) 17:50, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange "The Sunday Times" rankings 

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thread_title:  Content removed in compliance with DMCA 

message: I edited in the rankings as of 2014 for the Sunday Times but it says that my content was removed because "someone alleged that your post infringes on a copyright." Can anyone expand as to why? I cited my sources and didn't claim it as mine.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Radiatkit (talk • contribs) 17:33, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Sunday Times 2014 University Rankings Removed  

message: Someone has placed the "University of Karachi" as second place in the rankings when it obviously is not. Having looked at the change logs it seems to have happened before as well. I am not well versed enough in Wikipedia editing to make the changes myself, though I suggest someone do it. Cheers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.172.180.3 (talk) 12:55, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of Karachi 

message: Discussion: Is a Top 50 really needed? The Top 30 before provided adequate information for interested readers - links are provided to the source for those interested to see the full league table.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kioj156 (talk • contribs) 13:53, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion: is there any point in anything but Unistats? 

message: Thank you for your contributions to this wikipedia page regarding Boliver's research on the clusters of universities. I have seen that you have made various edits on a number of pages regarding her research, however I have removed your edits from the Russell Group and this page because of the over-reliance on one source. This page focuses on 'rankings' published by organisations, both from commercial and academic sources, rather than just the research of one individual and aims to rank by number rather than by clusters. If you are able to find further primary sources supporting the 4 clusters, please add a small excerpt to the criticisms section. EmyRussell (talk) 01:37, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  To 2a02:c7d:820e:1d00:acc3:c86f:608b:f221 

message: Although The Time's data may not be displayed, it is STILL one of the 3 major national league tables and should not be removed. The milkround has a list of the most updated list for The Times/Sunday Times league table.http://www.milkround.com/staticpages/12780/good-university-guide/ For reference, Bath is not in the top 10 in the Times/Sunday Times leauge table and please keep the colours in consistent with the number they are assigned to. 
If you would like to make further edits, please discuss it in this section before doing so.EmyRussell (talk) 01:05, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary of National Rankings Edits 

message: Would the table in this section make the slightest sense to any reader? We are told in the last column that the London School of Economics ranks "3c" which means that "The university is ranked within the top 5 of all three national rankings." But in the three columns to the left it is ranked "9, 4, 5", so not in the top 5 in all three columns. So presumably these three columns are not the "three national rankings"? In which case why do we list them here? Jonathan A Jones (talk) 14:03, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What we list are the THE Table of Tables (which is an average of the three national rankings) and two of the three national rankings: the Guardian University Guide and the Complete University Guide. The Times Good University Guide is not listed for copyright reasons. The three national rankings are discussed in the sections above, where top 50s are given for the two that allow it. It would certainly be better to list all three of them, but unfortunately that's not possible so we list what we can. Robminchin (talk) 18:25, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: So either add an explicit description to the footnote, or more simply just delete the right hand column. As things stand it is horribly confusing. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 20:05, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary of national rankings 

message: The two most recent league tables are free to access. I'm not sure the copyright  still holds in that context 31.94.30.147 (talk) 18:58, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunday Times?