So, this is my first post from Cambridge. Cambridge is just big enough to have at least one of pretty much everything (from an Apple Store to a Caffè Uno), but just small enough for lectures held on the far side of the city to not be extremely inconvenient. Anyway, I thought I'd say a bit about my room. It is a nice room - not too small, and it has a shower and washbasin. Among other things, there's a good radiator, enough plug sockets and a decent desk.

Moving on swiftly, the world university rankings were released a few days ago. Cambridge dropped from second to third, but is technially better off - it is now ranked higher than Oxford, which used to share joint second place with Cambridge and Yale. Loughborough has, once again, failed to make the top 200, but someone has already pointed out (as Rory cleverly spotted last year), that over 30 UK universities are ranked higher than Loughborough in the world rankings, whereas Loughborough is ranked much higher in the UK rankings. I agree, that that doesn't make sense at all. The rankings for the UK, Ireland and Europe are due out today - I would say that hopefully they will have resolved the issue, but due to Loughborough's lack of inclusion in the world's top 200 universities, that would mean that resolving the issue would drop Loughborough a long way down the UK rankings. In other news, UCL is up from 9th to 7th, ICL is down from 5th to 6th, TCD is up from 53rd to 49th and UCD is up from joint 177th to 108th.
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:55 WEST | Category: General
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