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• University of the Arts London: a creative champion rising up the rankings

  09-09-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  University of the Arts London brings together some of the most reputable art schools, and it’s soaring up the league table.The 2024 rankings in fullA university that specialises in the creative arts, and recruits nearly half of its students from overseas, sounds like a place designed to irk the science-promoting government ministers who want to turn away international students.But James Purnell, vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts London, says the answer is to use UAL’s str
  
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• ‘I’m going with the flow’: how to navigate dating at university

  09-09-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  University is a great place for both casual flings and lifelong love. So should you try Tinder Uni or see who you meet at house parties and bars?The 2024 league tableFinding love doesn’t count towards your final grade at university, yet for many it’s an integral part of the experience. With students often living in halls and then moving to adjacent streets in second and third year, there is plenty of opportunity to meet people and enjoy some local, old-fashioned romance.But according
  
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• Stoxbridge? St Andrews tops Guardian UK university guide for second year

  09-09-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scottish institution once again finishes ahead of Oxford and Cambridge in the Guardian’s 2024 rankingsView the full guideSt Andrews has cemented its lead as the best university in the country, pulling further away from Oxford and Cambridge in the latest Guardian University Guide.The Fife university came top of the table for the first time in 2022, after knocking Oxford off the second spot in 2019. This year, the gap between first place and Oxford and Cambridge in second and third place res
  
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• Is it worth going to university? We ask the experts

  09-09-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With a cost-of-living crisis, lecturers’ strikes and higher fees, is university still worth it? The answer from the experts is a resounding yes.The 2024 league tableSixth formers in England looking at the state of higher education, as they plan what to do post A-levels next summer, might be forgiven for thinking that universities are at a low ebb. A funding squeeze because of the falling value of tuition fees, disruption due to long-running industrial action, and rows over free speech and
  
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• Guardian University Guide 2024: find your subject

  09-09-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  League tables of all subject areas taught at UK universities, and profiles of those subjectsGuardian University Guide 2024 - overall tableView the full guideHow to use the tablesAccounting and finance
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• The Guardian University Guide 2024 – the rankings

  09-09-2023 08:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Find a course at one of the top universities in the country. Our league tables rank them all subject by subject, as well as by student satisfaction, staff numbers, spending and career prospects Continue reading...
  
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• Methodology behind the 2024 Guardian University Guide

  09-09-2023 08:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The compiler of the Guardian university league tables explains the technicalities of the processThe main table and subject tablesHow to use the Guardian University GuideDownload the spreadsheetsView the full guideWe use eight measures of performance, covering all stages of the student lifecycle, to put together a league table for 66 subjects. We regard each provider of a subject as a department and ask each provider to tell us which of their students count within each department. Our intention i
  
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• How to use the Guardian University Guide 2024

  09-09-2023 08:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Don’t be overwhelmed by the choice on offer – use this guide to help make a selectionThe 2024 league tableView the full guideWelcome to the Guardian University Guide 2024. With a cost of living crisis and longer repayment terms on student loans, deciding whether university is worth it has never been such a pressing question. This guide is here to remind you that going to university is about more than how much you’ll earn after graduating – it’s also about learning n
  
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• Best UK universities for medicine – league table

  09-09-2023 08:57 via theguardian.com
  
  The study of pre-clinical medicine and clinical medicine to maintain health, diagnose and treat disease in order to become a doctor Continue reading...
  
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• Best UK universities for dentistry – league table

  09-09-2023 08:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Dentists study prevention, detection, management and treatment of oral and dental diseases, and the maintenance of oral and dental health Continue reading...
  
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• Woodbridge scouts come to the rescue of Raac-hit school

  09-09-2023 07:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A local scout group sets up a marquee for pupils at a school affected by the concrete crisis.
  
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• G20-bound Rishi Sunak defends ‘correct’ Raac school closures

  09-09-2023 01:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister says example set by schools will not necessarily have to be followed by other public buildingsRishi Sunak has defended his government’s decision to shut down schools because of problems with crumbling concrete, as he aims to use this weekend’s G20 summit in New Delhi to draw a line under another bruising week in office.The prime minister told reporters on the trip to India that his education secretary, Gillian Keegan, had done the right thing in ordering 147 schools to
  
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