The University of Dundee is named today in the UK's top five universities to successfully combine wide access with low drop out rates and excellence in teaching and research.
The "Access Elite" table published in today's Times Higher Education Supplement places the University of Dundee fifth in the UK. This latest accolade comes just weeks after the University doubled its research performance in the national Research Assessment Exercise, soaring 11 places up the UK league with 95% of researchers now working in areas of international and national excellence.
Vice Principal Professor David Swinfen: "To widen access without compromising the highest standards of excellence in the academic fields is a difficult trick to pull off but the commitment of the University over a considerable number of years to a pioneering access programme in tandem with improving and developing the best teaching and research is clearly paying off."
In March this year Director of the University's Wider Access Study Centre Dr John Blicharski will travel to the House of Commons with a student who originally entered university via the wider access programme as an example of Dundee's effective access policies. The event is being organised by Universities UK to demonstrate to politicians and the public the success of wider access programmes in operation.
Today's UK Access Elite table names the University of Stirling top.