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Leading Article: Britain doing well

Thursday 28 August 2008 00:00 BST
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The international league table for 2008 produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China show British universities continuing to perform well in global rankings, and better, for example, than other European countries such as Germany, which invest more money in higher education than the UK. Cambridge comes top in Europe after Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley, and the big news is that UCL has overtaken Imperial to come in third position in the UK (22nd in the table).

All of which is good news for the international reputation of British higher education and for the overseas student market in the UK.

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