The UK's three oldest universities claim the top three positions in the Guardian university league table today, with Oxford and Cambridge universities achieving the topmost positions. A key ingredient in their success was the very high satisfaction ratings from their students.
All the institutions in the top 20 are strong in research - as we can see from the , where readers can compare research and teaching ratings for each subject - but that is not why they are top of the table. We judge them purely on their teaching. They would argue that their teaching is enriched by their research.
Two Scottish universities, Heriot-Watt and Robert Gordon, have jumped tremendously up by the ratings to 22 and 36 respectively, while as far south of the border as you get, Bournemouth is the new favourite university at 32 (37 last year). In Wales, the revival of Lampeter on the eve of its merger with Trinity University College Carmarthen is notable.
Among the specialist institutions that are often overlooked in some tables, the music conservatoires once again dominate this league.
Courtesy Guardian.co.uk
I would like to throw light on the famous personalities that University of Oxford has been producing since years.
ReplyDeleteThis includes:
25 British Prime Ministers
around 30 international leaders
47 Nobel Prize winners
7 current holders of the Order of Merit
6 kings
12 saints
20 Archbishops of Canterbury
50 Olympic medal winners
editors of 2 UK national newspapers
A partial list of University of Oxford famous alumni
ReplyDeleteHM King Abdullah II of Jordan
Sir Grantley Adams, Premier of Barbados, 1954-1958; Prime Minister of the West Indies, 1958-1962
J M G (Tom) Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados 1976-85
Diran Adebayo, author
Samira Ahmed, journalist and presenter
Monica Ali, author
Tariq Ali, writer
Rowan Atkinson, comedian
Sir Kingsley Amis, author
Lindsay Anderson, film-maker
W H Auden, poet
Clement Attlee, UK Prime Minister, 1945-1951
Zeinab Badawi, journalist and broadcaster
Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1956-1959
Sir Roger Bannister, neurologist and athlete
Dame Josephine Barnes, first female President of the British Medical Association
Marian Bell, economist
Tony Benn, politician
Alan Bennett, playwright
Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer
Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
Sir John Betjeman, poet
Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-90 & 1993-96)
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former President (1970-73) and Prime Minister (1972-77) of Pakistan
Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister (1997-2007)
Baruch S Blumberg, Nobel Prize-winning scientist
Edmund Blunden, poet
Henry Bonsu, journalist and broadcaster
Dr Ian Bostridge, opera singer
Sir Adrian Boult, conductor
James Bowman, counter-tenor
William Boyd, author
Lord (Melvyn) Bragg, broadcaster
Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, 1994-
Vera Brittain, writer
Peter Brook, theatre director
Fiona Bruce, broadcaster
Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana 1969-72
Robert Byron, travel writer
List Continued
ReplyDeleteDavid Cameron, Leader of the Conservative Party
Baroness (Barbara) Castle, politician
General Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1997-2000
Bill Clinton, President of the United States, 1992-2000
Wendy Cope, poet
Richard Curtis, screenwriter
Cecil Day Lewis, poet
Edward de Bono, philosopher
David Dimbleby, journalist and broadcaster
Sir John Eccles, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology 1963
John Edmonds, trade unionist
T S Eliot, poet
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, chef and broadcaster
Helen Fielding, author
Dr Amelia Fletcher, Chief Economist, Office of Fair Trading
Lord Florey, Nobel Prize-winning pathologist
Michèle Flournoy, US Under Secretary of Defense
Emilia Fox, actress
Lady Antonia Fraser, novelist and historian
Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, 1975-83
William Fulbright, politician, founder of the Fulbright Scholarships
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1966-77 & 1980-84
Dr Frene Ginwala, former Speaker of the South African National Assembly
William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
Hugh Grant, actor
Robert Graves, poet
Graham Greene, author
Sir John Grey Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia, 1968-1971
Mark Haddon, author
J B S Haldane, geneticist
Professor Stuart Hall, sociologist
Harald V, King of Norway since 1991
Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91
Professor Stephen Hawking, physicist
Sir Edward Heath, UK Prime Minister, 1970-74
Joseph Heller, author
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Oscar-winning film-maker
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Sir Tony Hoare, computer scientist
Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Edwin Hubble, astronomer
Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster, 1976-99
Aldous Huxley, author
Armando Iannucci, writer and comedian
Lord (Roy) Jenkins, former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the University
Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, former US Congressman
Luke Johnson, businessman, Chairman of Channel 4
Lakshman Kadirgamar, former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister
Natasha Kaplinsky, television presenter
Imran Khan, Pakistani politician and former international cricketer
Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
Soweto Kinch, jazz musician, saxophonist
Dame Emma Kirkby, soprano
John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001-2009
Haruhiko Kuroda, President of the Asian Development Bank
Martha Lane Fox, businesswoman, co-founder of lastminute.com
Philip Larkin, poet
T E Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
Nigella Lawson, chef and broadcaster
John Le Carre, author
C S Lewis, writer and scholar
Ken Loach, film-maker
Alain Locke, philosopher and architect of the Harlem Renaissance
Richard G Lugar, United States Senator
Val McDermid, crime writer
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum
Harold Macmillan, UK Prime Minister, 1957-63
Norman Manley, Leader of Jamaica, 1955-62
Chief Justice Mrs Sujata Vasant Manohar, Judge of the Supreme Court of India 1994-99
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister (and later President) of Fiji
Sir Peter Medawar, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology 1960
Ved Mehta, author
Roland Michener, Governor-General of Canada 1967-74
Dame Barbara Mills, first female Director of Public Prosecutions
Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, 1955-1958 & 1971-1984
Dudley Moore, actor, comedian, musician
Dom Moraes, poet
Kate Mosse, novelist
Dame Iris Murdoch, philosopher and author
Rupert Murdoch, Director, News International plc
Arthur Mutambara, Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, 2009-
Mylo, DJ
V S Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author
Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan
List continued- Famous personalities (Alumni- University of Oxford)
ReplyDeleteRageh Omaar, journalist
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary 1998-2002, leader of the Fidesz political party
Michael Palin, actor and writer
Lester B Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-1968, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Robert Penn Warren, American poet laureate
Rosamund Pike, actress
Sir Matthew Pinsent, four times Olympic Gold Medal-winning rower
Dennis Potter, playwright
Philip Pullman, author
Hugh Quarshie, actor
Dr Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Enlargement
Dr Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations
Rachel Riley, co-host on Channel 4's Countdown
Nick Robinson, journalist
Hon Raymond Robinson, President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1997-2003
General Sir Michael Rose, former UN Commander in Bosnia
Michael Rosen, children's novelist and poet
Lord (Robert) Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-1991
Sir Martin Ryle, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Dr Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement
Dorothy L Sayers, author
Ernst Schumacher, economist
Pixley Seme, founder of the African National Congress
Vikram Seth, author
Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, 2004-
Jacqui Smith, first female Home Secretary (2007-2009)
Professor Oliver Smithies, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine
Laura Solon, comedian
Cornelia Sorabji, India’s first female lawyer
John Spratt, United States Congressman
Rick Stein, chef and broadcaster
Lord (Nicholas) Stern, economist, author of the Stern Review into the Economics of Climate Change, 2006
Aung San Suu Kyi, leader, Burmese National League for Democracy and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
A J P Taylor, historian
Baroness (Margaret) Thatcher, UK Prime Minister, 1979-90
Sir Wilfred Thesiger, explorer and anthropologist
Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC
Lester Thurow, economist
J R R Tolkien, author and academic
Margaret Turner-Warwick, first woman President of the Royal College of Physicians
Revd Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans
Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand from December 2008
David Vitter, United States Congressman
Baroness (Mary) Warnock, philosopher
Evelyn Waugh, author
Sir Andrew Wiles, mathematician
Dr Eric Williams, historian and politician, Chief Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1956-1959, Premier 1959-1962, Prime Minister 1962-1981
Ivy Williams, first female barrister in the UK
Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury since 2002
Baroness Shirley Williams, politician
Dr Heather Wilson, former United States Congresswoman
Michael Winterbottom, film-maker
Jeanette Winterson, author
Qian Zhongsu, Chinese academic and writer
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