A gold rating has been given in the latest “teaching excellence” rankings to the same number of universities with low entry requirements as prestigious ones.
The Office for Students rates higher education institutions as gold, silver or bronze according to the quality of their courses.
It has deemed ten Russell Group or other universities that require high entry grades to be “gold”, including Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter, Warwick, Imperial College London and Bath.
Another ten described as “low-tariff” by the regulator, because entry is less competitive, were also given a gold rating, including the universities of Derby and Kingston.
