{"id":346,"date":"2015-05-26T13:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=346"},"modified":"2015-09-24T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T08:46:46","slug":"school-excels-in-guardian-league-table-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/05\/26\/school-excels-in-guardian-league-table-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"School excels in Guardian League Table Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Politics and International Relations is pleased to announce it has been ranked 10th in the country for Politics, in the 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S350\">Guardian University League Table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The league table rankings, published on May 25th, found the School above a number of Russell Group universities including Bristol, King&#8217;s College London and the LSE.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian considers a number of factors when ranking UK universities, such as student satisfaction, graduate employment prospects and quality of teaching.<\/p>\n<p>This ranking sees the School of Politics and International Relations as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\">University of Kent&#8217;s<\/a> top 10 most succesful Schools; the institution also gaining further ground this year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#all\">rising four places from 20 to 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This latest good news for the University follows Kent\u2019s success in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/research\/ref2014\/\">REF 2014<\/a>, where the School was ranked in the top 20 amongst UK universities for for Research Power and Research Impact.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in studying with us, you can find out more on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/undergraduates\/programmes\/index.html\">Undergraduate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/postgraduates\/taught-programmes\/index.html\">Postgraduate<\/a> courses on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/why-study-with-us\/index.html\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Politics and International Relations is pleased to announce it has been ranked 10th in the country for Politics, in the 2016 Guardian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/05\/26\/school-excels-in-guardian-league-table-rankings\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}