The London Times recently published its league table of the top 200 universities around the world. In this programme, Rob and Alice talk about how universities are chosen to be on the list and find out how well British universities performed.
This week's question:
Which university was ranked first in this recent international league table?
a) Oxford
b) Harvard
c) Cambridge
Listen out for the answer in the programme.
Listen
Top international universities
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Vocabulary
- research
investigation of a subject
- income
money earned
- ranking
position something has on a list; how high or low it is placed
- funding
money available
- gross domestic product
how much a country's output is worth in a year, in monetary terms
- investment
something you buy or spend money on, usually hoping to make profit from it in the future
- institutions
important and well-respected organisations
- Anglophone
English speaking
- reputation
how a person, organisation or country is viewed by other people, based on past performance
