Various reports have bemoaned London’s dominance within the UK. Helen Lewis of the Guardian recently stated “the capital’s uncontrolled growth has given it a dominance that damages the rest of the country” (http://gu.com/p/4g7f5/stw). This bloating of London has been most publicised in terms of house prices, with students topically claiming to have been “priced out” of our capital, and others too. All this made me wonder if this phenomenon is true elsewhere, or are we being UK-centric in thinking this challenge is unique to our country? Continue reading “Is London really too dominant a capital city?”
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World University Rankings: what I’ve learned
For the past 8 months I’ve been working as a Data Scientist in the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings team, helping to take the analysis behind the rankings in-house (it was previously all done by Reuters), and improving it along the way … so what did I learn? Continue reading “World University Rankings: what I’ve learned”