Posted on 4 August 1999
The table is based on official assessments of teaching quality in the UK's 98 universities. The programme of assessments is ongoing, with several subjects assessed in all universities each year. The next subjects to be assessed at York will be Physics, Nursing, Bioscience and Psychology.
The Telegraph's table is intended as a guide to student applicants, showing which universities score highly for the quality of their teaching.
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