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一种排名而已,不必欢欣雀跃,也不必太愤青,没有必要了。给大家转一下原文了。
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3561-2389106,00.html
Britain and America dominate list of best universities
By Alexandra Frean, Education Editor
Click here for the top 100 universities in the world
CAMBRIDGE and Oxford now rank among the top three universities in the world, second only to Harvard in the US, according to the latest global rankings published today.
Both British universities have moved up in the rankings for 2006, with Cambridge knocking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology off the No 2 position and Oxford advancing from fourth position to third. MIT is tied for fourth place with another US university, Yale.
The findings will bring cheer to Britain’s higher education sector at a time when some universities are giving warning that chronic underfunding of undergraduate teaching, poor cost recovery on research contracts, salary rises and increased administration costs are pushing their accounts into the red.
This week Oxford said that it was facing a “grave deficit” in its teaching accounts and that an increase in tuition fees was inevitable if standards were to be maintained.
Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University, said yesterday that the new |
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