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Reply 60
Biggles
But it's not the LSE, is it?


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Reply 61
Catharsis
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Catharsis
It's definetely not very meaningful to compare the two
Btw, -again correct me if I'm wrong- isn't the TQA of LSE for politics is 22 whereas Brum's is 24?
Just asking..No offence :rolleyes:


1/The TQA scores are all now years out of date. In any case they were based on the subjective judgement of a handful of randomly picked individuals after a brief visit. Not long ago they were scrapped, largely because LSE exercised its clout in complaining about how bureaucratic and tiresome the inspections were - somehow I don't think the result would have been the same if Birmingham complained - they just don't have the impact. Incidentally, LSE's average TQA scores over the whole period of the TQA were in the top handful.

2/In practice the difference between 22 and 24 points was minimal (anything from 22 to 24 points was regarded as 'excellent'). Often a few points difference was down to procedural and administrative factors-nothing directly to do with academic quality.

3/You need to go on much more than TQA scores to judge a university's quality as a teaching institution.

4/Sure, Birmingham's a very good university, but don't fool yourself that it has the standing of LSE.
Biggles
Well, it's not exactly the LSE, now is it?



Hey, Biggles, good to see you're still rooting for our esteemed academy. What happened to the Oxbridge/Imperial/LSE thread, by the way? It seems to have been deleted....maybe somebody's a bad loser...
W.A.S Hewins
Hey, Biggles, good to see you're still rooting for our esteemed academy. What happened to the Oxbridge/Imperial/LSE thread, by the way? It seems to have been deleted....maybe somebody's a bad loser...


Yes, I noticed that too - Nerd Queen probably couldn't handle your solid arguments anymore and requested that the thread be deleted.
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