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Notes about Quality

The university system in the UK is subject to a variety of objective and subjective reviews of their program.

Teaching Quality Information - This site provides information about teaching quality at higher education institutions in the UK and helps you compare institutions and subjects. Information is organized by subject and is based on official studies provided to the government.
National Student Survey -Since 2005, students in their final year of university have been asked their views on the quality of the education they had received in their subject area at their institution. The results are shown on this site – as long as 50% or more of the students in a course responded.
Research Assessment Exercises - The UK funding councils conduct a UK-wide research assessment exercise, or RAE, every few years to analyze the quality of research undertaken at each university. The councils did their latest assessment in 2001, so this data is quite old.

Other student opinions of their programs and universities can be found at the Push Guide

The Unofficial Guides are chockerblock full of tidbits you may be hard pressed to find elsewhere.

 

 

Rankings

Education Guardian was not to be undone and sought out a distinct methodology that mixes objective data and student input.

The Times League Tables is the venerable old ranking machine. Done by both university and subjects.

 
 
 

What is quality?
Quality . . . you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is. But that's self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is, they have more quality. But when you try to say what the quality is, apart from the things that have it, it all goes poof! There's nothing to talk about. But if you can't say what Quality is, how do you know what it is, or how do you know that it even exists? If no one knows what it is, then for all practical purposes it doesn't exist at all. But for all practical purposes it really does exist. What else are the grades based on? Why else would people pay fortunes for some things and throw others in the trash pile? Obviously some things are better than others . . . but what's the betterness? . . . So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell is Quality? What is it?

-Robert Prisig

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