Data Act overturns top table of colleges
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The credibility of the annual Norrington table, which since the 1960s has provided an unofficial league of Oxford University colleges, has been blighted by claims of inaccuracy and dirty tricks, with many claiming the Data Protection Act has rendered it invalid. The fact that the Act allows students to keep their exam results private means that there is now no way to tell how many poorly performing students have refused to divulge their results, thereby rendering any evaluation of the performance of a college's students hard to judge.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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League Tables
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Tables listing the United Kingdom's universities by entry standards, student-to-staff ratio, teaching quality assessment score, research assessment exercise score, library & computing expenditure, facilities spending, good degree levels, degree completion levels, graduate employment levels, percentage of staff with teaching and research contract, percentage of permanent staff and research income.
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Year: 2004
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League tables
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Tables ranking universities and colleges in the UK in 12 categories. The categories are entry standards, student-to-staff ratio, teaching quality assessment performance, research assessment exercise performance, library and computing spending, facilities spending, firsts and 2:1s, completion, employment, staff with teaching and research contracts, permanent staff and research income.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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