L'Enseignement supérieur britannique (document en anglais).

British higher education

England is probably the country with the most popular among French students. Otherwise, it's difficult to imagine another country to improve her English, all the more essential in the era of the globalization of trade.

However, According to an article of BBC of october 2, 2014(two thousand fourteen) Three UK universities have lost their place in the top 200(two hundred) of a global higher education league table.

The universities of Reading, Dundee and Newcastle slipped out of the top 200(two hundred) of the Times Higher Education (THE) World Rankings for 2014-15 and five others are not longer in the top 400(four hundred).

However, these famous schools : Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London remain in the top 10.

Holding on to the top spot for the fourth consecutive year is the California Institute of Technology in the United States and of course, Harvard University is in second place and the University of Oxford is in third.

Phil Baty, the editor of THE World University Rankings, said that, while the UK had more top-200(two hundred) universities than any other nation except the US, the new data raised a number of key concerns.

Overall, the UK's representation among the world's leading universities is declining.

For him, "This loss of power and influence is not good for the UK's overall competitiveness in the global knowledge economy.

Moreover, British students are rushing massively on private schools. The Government argues the record number of 160,000(one hundred and sixty thousand) registered. A boom can be explained in part by the sharp rise in school fees in public in recent years.

Private institutions offering training in areas such as business, management, accounting, computer science or the arts. The number of movements in these schools IS much higher than the estimates. And experts swear the migration to the private will continue in the coming years. Because they have become cheaper than many universities. So young opt for a less expensive school.

But we have to know that the study found that less than half of the graduates of private gain employment corresponding to their academic level, while students in public universities are 90% to find a job.

This is why, higher education for English students are still universities for their success rates but also because for their reputation despite their declines, and don't forget that London has the greatest concentration of first-class universities with four in the top 40 - more than any other city in the world - and seven in the top 200(two hundred).

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