AT BUSH HOUSE in central London, formerly the home of the BBC’s World Service, the finishing touches are being applied to King’s College London’s swanky new campus, which will open in September. The building’s Portland stone exterior and marble interior, capped by a rooftop café with a fabulous view, make it a grand home for KCL, and a possible, partial solution to a problem from which all of London’s better universities suffer: students don’t much enjoy attending them.
In terms of student satisfaction, London’s top universities underperform (see chart). The International Student Barometer, which measures the views of students around the world studying outside their home country, finds that international students in London would be significantly less likely to recommend their university than would those in Britain’s other cities.
That is, no doubt, in part the consequence of their location, for big cities tend to be unfriendly and pricey. Yet New York’s top universities...Continue reading
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