Oxford named UK's best University in large games - Telegraph.co.uk

Oxford outdated Cambridge as the best University in the UK in a ranking of the times higher education magazine will be released called. Photo: GETTY

The old institution was fourth in the world - two places on the traditional rivals - tables, the universities against a number of benchmarks including research, to measure teaching and reputation.

A total seven British universities were named, in the top 50 and 32 were more than any country other than the United States in the top 200-.

But the data - published by times higher education magazine - prompted the UK fresh warnings, global risk cuts in education and research level.

The Russell Group, which represents 20 leading universities, said public funds was already among the lowest in the developed world and UK would fight to keep how cash is further pressed up with universities in the United States, Australia, Canada, Korea and Japan in the coming years.

It is the Oxford only 24 hours after the Vice-Chancellor before that warned that the University was to lose many of the best students on the basis of the cuts for the funding of research.

Sally Hunt, Secretary General of the University, and Union College, said: "higher education is a field where we can rightly and proudly say that we are still the world."

"Unfortunately, if we want to reconsider plans to finance urgently slash not we get left behind."

Universities against 13 performance indicators, including research to assess the ranking quality and a large survey of academics.

Harvard was the first time in eight years after California Institute of technology is obsolete from knocked the top spot. Stanford was joint second - next to Harvard - and Oxford finished fourth.

Cambridge, was sixth and Imperial College London - as the eighth best-the two other British institutions in the top were 10.

Last year, was sixth joint Oxford and Cambridge, and Imperial was the ninth.

Researchers said the improved performance of Oxford can ensure up to minor changes in the methodology, institutions with a focus on art and humanities were more on an equal footing with which science specialized. Oxford traditionally stronger in art as Cambridge, is known for his science facilities, has been claimed.

A total of seven British universities were among the top 50, compared to five last year and 32 were in the top 200-three more than in 2010.

But figures showed that Britain had only 12 institutions in the top 100 compared with 14 in the year before. It proposes that growing gap between Britain's top universities and the rest as the best cement its position among the elite, easily glide during average artist.

David Willetts, the universities Minister said the data "brings very strongly, that universities a public good".

"Put our reforms of higher education funding on a sustainable basis", he added. "We estimate that the money to universities could be 10% higher until 2014-15, as is the case now."

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