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Bioscience
(table revised 16 November 99)

Institution Teaching quality assessment Value added score* Spend per student* Student staff ratio* Job prospects** Average entry** Total score***
Cambridge 5.0 10 5 6 6 32.0
Dundee 7.5 9 5 5 4 30.5
Surrey 5.1 8 5 6 4 28.1
Queen's Belfast 7.1 6 5 6 4 28.1
St Andrews 1.0 10 6 6 5 28.0
Sheffield 7.8 6 4 5 5 27.8
Oxford 0.7 10 5 6 6 27.7
Nottingham 5.6 7 4 5 6 27.6
King's College London 7.3 5 4 6 5 27.3
Liverpool 4.0 8 5 5 5 27.0
Reading 7.0 7 5 4 4 27.0
Loughborough 5.9 6 5 5 5 26.9
East Anglia 5.9 7 4 5 5 26.9
Birmingham 4.6 7 4 6 5 26.6
Aberdeen 6.4 7 4 5 4 26.4
Leeds 7.4 6 4 4 5 26.4
Bristol 5.0 5 4 6 6 26.0
Edinburgh 5.9 7 4 3 6 25.9
Warwick 1.7 10 5 4 5 25.7
Leicester 2.5 8 5 5 5 25.5
Imperial College 2.2 8 4 5 6 25.2
Bath 7.0 5 4 4 5 25.0
UMIST 1.0 8 5 6 5 25.0
Sussex 4.6 5 5 6 4 24.6
Keele 7.5 5 4 4 4 24.5
Stirling 4.1 6 5 5 4 24.1
University College London 1.0 7 5 6 5 24.0
Wales Institute Cardiff 6.8 4 4 5 4 23.8
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College 4.4 5 4 6 4 23.4


Newcastle 5.3 6 4 3 5 23.3
Essex 2.9 6 5 6 3 22.9
Southampton 2.7 6 4 5 5 22.7
Oxford Brookes 4.7 6 5 4 3 22.7
Nottingham Trent 5.6 4 3 6 4 22.6
Wales Swansea 5.4 5 4 4 4 22.4
York 1.4 7 5 4 5 22.4
Robert Gordon 4.3 5 5 5 3 22.3
Wales Cardiff 4.1 5 4 4 5 22.1
Manchester 2.9 5 4 5 5 21.9
Ulster 3.8 5 4 5 4 21.8
Central Lancashire 4.8 5 4 5 3 21.8
Kent 3.5 6 4 5 3 21.5
Exeter 4.3 6 2 5 4 21.3
Wales Bangor 3.2 6 4 4 4 21.2
Hull 3.0 4 4 6 4 21.0
Bradford 2.9 5 4 5 4 20.9
Coventry 7.3 4 3 3 3 20.3
Plymouth 4.3 4 5 3 4 20.3
Napier 6.2 4 3 4 3 20.2
Anglia Polytechnic 7.1 3 3 4 3 20.1
Lancaster 2.0 5 4 5 4 20.0
Hertfordshire 4.8 5 4 4 2 19.8
East London 4.7 4 4 4 3 19.7
Durham 1.6 5 3 4 6 19.6
Wales Aberystwyth 5.6 4 3 4 3 19.6
Staffordshire 5.3 4 3 4 3 19.3
Sunderland 4.3 4 4 4 3 19.3
Liverpool John Moores 3.8 4 4 4 3 18.8
Brunel 2.8 3 3 6 4 18.8


Derby 3.7 3 4 5 3 18.7
Huddersfield 7.5 2 1 5 3 18.5
Glasgow Caledonian 4.0 3 4 4 3 18.0
Strathclyde 1.9 5 4 3 4 17.9
Brighton 2.8 4 3 5 3 17.8
Salford 2.4 4 2 5 4 17.4
Glasgow 1.3 5 3 3 5 17.3
Wolverhampton 4.3 4 4 3 2 17.3
Manchester Metropolitan 5.1 3 3 3 3 17.1
Westminster 4.0 4 4 2 3 17.0
Heriot-Watt 0.0 6 4 3 4 17.0
Portsmouth 4.0 4 3 3 3 17.0
Leeds Metropolitan 2.5 3 3 5 3 16.5
Aston 5.5 1 6 4 16.5
Northumbria 1.2 4 3 4 4 16.2
Abertay Dundee 0.0 5 5 6 16.0
Queen Mary and Westfield College 0.0 5 2 5 4 16.0
Kingston 3.6 3 1 5 3 15.6
Teesside 2.5 2 3 5 3 15.5
South Bank 2.7 3 4 2 3 14.7
North London 3.2 2 3 4 2 14.2
Greenwich 3.1 3 2 4 2 14.1
Glamorgan 2.4 2 1 5 3 13.4
Luton n/a 3 4 6 13.0
Sheffield Hallam 2.6 6 1 3 12.6
Paisley 1.1 4 4 1 2 12.1
West of England 3.7 4 3 10.7
De Montfort 3.5 1 3 7.5




Notes

Guardian value-added measure for university teaching

First, new students are grouped into four bands, each representing a different level of entry qualifications.
Band 1: A-level (and Scottish Higher) entrants with 21-30 points
Band 2: A-level entrants with 11-20 points
Band 3: A-level entrants with 1-10 points
Band 4: alternative entry qualifications, including level 3 GNVQs and NVQs, BTECs and access courses.
(An A grade at A level is worth 10 points, B grade 8 points, C grade 6 points etc. An A in a Scottish Higher is worth 6 points)
For each band a proportion of those graduates obtaining a upper second or first class degree is calculated. Each band is then weighted.
Band 1 is given a weighting of 1
Band 2 is given a weighting of 2
Band 3 is given a weighting of 3
Band 4 is given a weighting of 4 The 'scores' for each band, found by multiplying its weighting by the proportion of graduates, are then summed to obtain a final overall score for a department.

Overall Guardian teaching quality score

The following are maximum scores for each measure of teaching quality for a department:
Teaching quality assessment : 62 (three times the assessment score minus 10)
Guardian value-added measure: 10
Spending per student: 10
Staff-student ratio: 6
Job prospects based on unemployment rate: 6
Student entry qualifications: 6
Total maximum score (with teaching assessm