Date published: 2007/07/04
The BBC says:
The UK could lose its place at the top of world university rankings within 10 years, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University has warned.
Professor Alison Richard told MPs the quality of research in the UK must not be undermined by the drive to raise student numbers.
Ministers want 50% of 18-30 year olds to attend university by 2010.
Prof Richard also said the government must invest more in higher education if the UK was to remain a world leader.
League table rankings published in the Times Higher Education Supplement last year showed that Cambridge and Oxford were among the few world universities to challenge the global dominance of US institutions.
Harvard in the US was top, followed by Cambridge and then Oxford. Britain had 29 universities in the list of the world's top 200.
Nothing surprising here, just someone asking for more money for their own area. And the THES rankings are fairly meaningless, since the THES is British so is biased towards Oxbridge. The real question is what the rest of the world thinks.
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