Golden Triangle (UK universities)

Golden Triangle (UK universities)

Golden Triangle is a term used to describe a number of leading British research universities based in London, Oxford and Cambridge.

The University of Cambridge in the city of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in the city of Oxford form two corners of the triangle. The third geographic point is London, and the University of London, represented especially, though not exclusively, by the following constituent colleges: University College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London and Imperial College London (which left the university on 8 July 2007). [cite paper
last = Grant
first = Malcolm
title = The future of the University of London: a discussion paper from the Provost of UCL
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date = 2005-03-01
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accessdate = 2008-09-17
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Reputation

The institutions of the 'Golden Triangle' not only receive a large section of the research budget in the United Kingdom, but also enjoy a worldwide reputation for excellence in their own right, hence the term 'golden'. However, the term has gained currency in recent years as a way to denote unrest amongst the nation's premier universities as well as their lobbying efforts to bring about favourable legislation in the British Parliament.Fact|date=February 2007 All of the universities are currently pressing to charge greater feesFact|date=February 2007 for access by European Union nationals, asserting that they do not have the assets to compete on even ground with many of the world’s other leading research universities (the majority of which are private, or if public such as the University of California, Berkeley and UCSB charge higher fees to foreign and out of state students for attendance).

Funding for the year 2007-08

Higher Education Funding Council for England has published its research funding for the year 2007-08 for the universities in England. [cite news| url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/specialreport/table/0,,2023291,00.html|title=Hefce funding allocations 2007-08|work=Higher Education Suplement|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=2008-09-17] Top 10 Universities are illustrated in the following table with Golden Triangle institutions in bold form. LSE is the only Golden Triangle institution that failed to make it top ten because of its predominantly social science based research work but it topped amongst the social science based universities with a total research funding of £18,118,000.

Higher Education Research Funding for England (2007-08)

References

ee also

*Russell Group
*1994 Group
*Research Triangle (United States)


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