{"id":4220,"date":"2015-05-27T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2015-05-29T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:01:06","slug":"secl-success-in-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/27\/secl-success-in-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"SECL success in The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As published in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016\">The Guardian University Guide 2016<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on Monday, the University of Kent is now ranked 16th out\u00a0of 119 UK universities, its highest league table position to date with a rise of four places.<\/p>\n<p>The subjects taught by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/index.html\">School of European Culture and Languages<\/a>\u00a0(SECL) rank within the top 20 across UK universities, breaking down as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S460\">Classics and Ancient History<\/a><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 14th<\/li>\n<li><b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S370\">Modern Languages and Linguistics<\/a><\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/b>15th<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S470\">Philosophy<\/a><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 17th<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S480\">Religious Studies<\/a><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 8th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>The Guardian<\/i>&#8216;s league table ranks higher education institutions in Britain using a complex algorithm that takes in data from a variety of sources, including the National Student Survey, and a set of metrics including staff\/student ratios, expenditure, entry scores and career prospects, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The league table can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016\">www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As published in\u00a0The Guardian University Guide 2016\u00a0on Monday, the University of Kent is now ranked 16th out\u00a0of 119 UK universities, its highest league table position &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/27\/secl-success-in-the-guardian\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":4222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}