oooh, so bye bye london?
the tables are generally pants as you say. but this one is very confusing. exeter and cambridge dont offer BEd courses anymore, only pgces - and i dont see a differentiation between pgce and BEd training which are very different things. They offer SCITT etc stats but not PGCE (wierd). Also - it really does depend on where you are placed. My pgce was aweful, so was my girlfriends, largely because the schools we were sent to were failing schools - how were we to observe good teaching from schools deemed "a cause for concern"? East London is slated - but its the most forward thinking part of the UK when it comes to special and inclusive education, with a unique structure and mainstream schools which support children of all abilities. In Exeter there is very little of that and plenty of special schools exist.
The newspaper tables are always biased too - because they assess education studies, not teacher training. People think they are getting a good deal because they are at oxbridge, durham, exeter and bristol because the teaching and research scores are high BUT these scores are years out of date. Those institutions deemed outstanding for teacher education (i.e. winchester) dont even get a mention because they are not research intensive universities.
Strange world eh?