Good University Guide 2009 - Independent

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Freols

I expect Warwick to do well, it's a bit of a lefty institution. :wink:

Not really. It was slagged off in its early years as 'Warwick PLC' because of a fairly hard-nosed and businesslike approach at the same time as much of the rest of the sector was resting on unthinking leftish laurels. Later, it cottoned on before anyone else to how the sector was changing and it also realised the implications of league tables even as some of the older universities were sniffing in disdain. The Warwick management is unbelievably canny.

I think the students had a reputation for left-wing political activism in the seventies - they occupied Senate House for a while - but my impression now is that the student body is, like most student bodies, touchy-feely liberal with a few Old Labour types and random Conservatives at the margins.

Anyway, whatever the reasons, you're right that it's done well - fourth in the Guardian. Yay :biggrin:

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101joce

is strathclyde better for prosthetics and orthotics than salford university or does anyone know? Prosthetics and orthotics is bio-engineering.

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Eubacterium

I think Manchester should be higher up the table, but other than that, for the overall ranks, it looks quite accurate.

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global_warning

In the end tables don't mean much. It's the next RAE which will matter.

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GnMvP

global_warning

In the end tables don't mean much. It's the next RAE which will matter.

Not much for the undergraduates....

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global_warning

In terms of reputation which will impact their future careers...

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GnMvP

global_warning

In terms of reputation which will impact their future careers...

Ok, I agree, but it doesn't effect them much as students...

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*Fool'sGold*

I'm sorry but Durham below Imperial College? WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?

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Admonitor

*Fool'sGold*

I'm sorry but Durham below Imperial College? WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?

In what? Imperial is often rated as just behind Oxbridge, in league tables anyway. I can't honestly see why you're so surprised

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ournip

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In what? Imperial is often rated as just behind Oxbridge, in league tables anyway. I can't honestly see why you're so surprised

or indeed why you would care! :p:

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The Boosh

GnMvP

Not much for the undergraduates....

it matters a lot for undergrads, especially for applied fields such as engineering. research-led teaching is what you want as an engineer - you want to graduate from uni knowing about the cutting edge technologies and processes and ways of creating such technologies and processes. also, professorships are sometimes sponsored by industry, so a professor will have intimate links with the type of product or process you wish to work with. this professor could teach you about matters which are essential to your future job role and could offer you knowledge and experience that that no other professor could teach you. seriously, that's how important it is. you will find your department will specialise in certain things too, and this specialism comes from research. different departments conduct different research and thus have different specialisms, and this all has a role to play when it comes to what they teach you (and what they don't).