According to latest league tables, English universities have slipped down the world rankings. Over the last year, the UK has gone from having 12 universities in the top 100 to just 10. Meanwhile, Oxford and Cambridge remain the only British universities in the top 10 in the world.
Some commentators were quick to claim that this was the result of student protests and funding cuts damaging the reputation of English higher education. While images of students battling with police can't have helped, a far more likely explanation is the meteoric rise of world-class universities in Asia. The problem is not that English universities are getting worse - it's that other countries are getting better.
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