{"id":5996,"date":"2016-05-25T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2016-05-25T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:21:39","slug":"secl-success-in-the-guardian-university-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/05\/25\/secl-success-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"SECL success in The Guardian University Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday saw the publication of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2016\/may\/23\/university-league-tables-2017\">The Guardian University Guide 2017<\/a><\/em>, which again confirmed\u00a0Kent as one of the UK&#8217;s leading universities,\u00a0ranking 23rd out of 119 participating higher education institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Several subjects taught within SECL were ranked within the top 20, these are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2016\/may\/23\/university-league-tables-2017#S460\">Classics and Ancient History<\/a> &#8211; 7th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2016\/may\/23\/university-league-tables-2017#S470\">Philosophy<\/a> &#8211; 14th<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2016\/may\/23\/university-league-tables-2017#S480\">Religious Studies<\/a> &#8211; 14th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 league table can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2016\/may\/23\/university-league-tables-2017\">www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2016\/may\/23\/university-league-tables-2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday saw the publication of The Guardian University Guide 2017, which again confirmed\u00a0Kent as one of the UK&#8217;s leading universities,\u00a0ranking 23rd out of 119 participating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/05\/25\/secl-success-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"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\/5996"}],"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\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6045"}],"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=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}