Universities League Table Pressure
Eight leading British universities have been accused of pressuring student to perform well to attempt to boost their positions in the university league tables. The universities in question are:
• Anglis Ruskin
• Swansea
• Leicester
• Derby
• Portsmouth
• Sunderland
• Kingston
• London Metro
Complaints varied from heads of departments telling students that high scores will incease the importance of their degree. Staff blatantly filled in surveys on behalf of students to provide invalid data. Finally one complaint explained that if students were not to highly score the university in surveys they would not get good jobs.
