{"id":4232,"date":"2015-05-27T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2015-05-28T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T11:04:04","slug":"philosophy-success-in-the-guardian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/27\/philosophy-success-in-the-guardian-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy success in The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016\">The Guardian University Guide 2016<\/a><\/em> on Monday, the University of Kent is now ranked 16th out of 119 UK universities, its highest league table position to date with a rise of four places.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0was within the UK top 20, ranked at 17th in the UK.\u00a0The subject area scored particularly well for course satisfaction, ranking 4th\u00a0in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em>&#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 full Philosophy rankings may be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S470\">www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S470<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As published in The Guardian University Guide 2016 on Monday, the University of Kent is now ranked 16th out of 119 UK universities, its highest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/05\/27\/philosophy-success-in-the-guardian-2\/\">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":[18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232"}],"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=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4259"}],"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=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}