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Hotel Russell: Post-1892 (image: Tony Hisgett CC BY 2.0) Anyone whose children are applying to go to secondary school will have been handed glossy prospectuses, with staged photos and talk of inspiring teaching and excellent facilities. Ignore all that and head for the back, where there are data on the destination of the leavers, showing how many have gone on to tertiary education and, of

The only rank that counts (Image: Brett Jordan, CC BY 2.0) A couple of years ago I wrote in the Funding Insight magazine about the modern obsession with league tables and how, while relatively harmless when used to bulk out a Sunday newspaper, they could be dangerously corrosive when attempting to compare universities globally. I was heartened, then, to read a report published before