Talk:Thames Valley University
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I hope you don't object if I query the inclusion of a League Table ranking. To me, this appears to be a harmful and unuseful precedent. Unlike the statistics in the box it accompanies, league table rankings are not discrete, unquestionable and universal values. They are merely, as evidenced in their only ever appearing in national newspapers, and their being taken with a pinch of salt even by the QAA, little more than numeric translations of one particular body's opinion: subject to that newspaper's criteria and own opinion of what constitutes aptitude in an educational institution. Nor do I see 'League Table' in any other relevant University article. For now I shall omit it, with the included paragraph already more than formidable an indicator of the 'quality' wrangles that have clearly affected TVA over the past decade.
[edit] Accommodation
"there was no student accommodation until 2007" this is not true, accomodation at the Reading campus has been available prior to this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 3dom (talk • contribs) 00:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC).
- Corrected, via the magic of the wiki. — mholland 03:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] University ratings
(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)
There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 23:33, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
