Exciting news reaches middle England – the Daily Mail has entered the university league table business!
Naturally, it measures universities differently to other rankings. The headline twist here is that its method is “highly topical”, apparently prioritising “the key issues and concerns for students and their families”.
There’s even a set of whizzy sliders that allow prospective students and their helicopter parents and grandparents to alter the weightings afforded to each of the factors – and so allows one of your graduate interns to be told to spend hours finding a way to adjust the sliders to make your university top in something.
Rather embarrassingly for the Guardian, whose rankings are also out this weekend, the Mail’s uses this year’s National Student Survey (NSS) results.
