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Sixty percent of British universities in a world’s leading rank have recorded their position this year because the sector has difficulty keeping up with increasing competition from Asia and increasing financial pressure.
The reviews of 54 of the 90 British universities in the year QS World University Ranking Fell, including almost half of the Elite-Russell group of research-intensive institutions.
High -ranking Universities These registered steep declines included Edinburgh, who put seven places on the 34th place, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, which fell from 50th to 56th.
Imperial College London held second place in a field of more than 1,500 universities, while both Oxford and Cambridge push a place to fourth or sixth place.
Jessica Turner, Managing Director of QS, said that Great Britain could not afford to “rest on his laurels” and has to increase the investments in order to compete with “ambitious” competitors overseas.
“It is not really the case that the institutions in Great Britain get worse, it is that they cannot still stand if you are competitive,” she added.
There were some bright spots for Great Britain, with both Sheffield and Nottingham returning to the top 100 after double -digit two -digit rise in the ranking. The King’s College London was also one of the 24 universities to climb the list and rose from 40 to 31.
The ranking lists a more comprehensive trend, since Canada and Australia two of the other important study destinations have difficulty studying with well-financed universities in China, India and Southeast Asia.
The publication of the ranking on Thursday marks the Second year in a row Where the majority of British universities saw that their performance has decreased.
China has set up its position in the past ten years, and only Great Britain and the United States have a larger number of universities in the ranking. India is behind with eight new entries this year.
Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan also appeared strongly, with the majority of universities from these countries rose in the ranking.
According to Turner, the profits reflected the strategic approach of the region for university formation, whereby the universities benefit from increased state funds to invest in research and bonds from international and domestic students.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, based in the USA, has the 14th year in a row at the head of the ranking and Stanford rose to third place by three places. Harvard left a place in fifth place.
The ranking lists, in which the institutions in more than 100 university systems are evaluated into a number of indicators including employer surveys and research citing, is a persistent financing that force British universities to perform courses and employees.
Vivienne Stern, Managing Director of Universities UK, said that the sector is already “in detail” to satisfy the financial pressure. She added that a “long -term and permanent financing agreement” of the government would reverse the “slight downturn” in the performance.
“Other governments all over the world make the decision to invest in their universities in their universities, in which our government does only slowly. This decline is not inevitable,” she added.
