NEWS SUMMARY

     UK UNIVERSITIES FACE COLLAPSE                         INTO MEDIOCRITY, SAYS RANKINGS COMPILER

The elite British universities face a "collapse into global mediocrity" within a generation; this is what says the compilers of a new league table of the world's best universities.

The news reports that the leading universities in the UK are under the Times Higher Education rankings, and the Asian institutions are advancing, for then talk.

In the article the editor of Times Higher Education  rankings,  Phil  Baty,  said that London, Oxford and Cambridge will stay out of the golden triangle, while the Asian universities point out that will be within of the golden triangle. 

Also, the news reports that some universities have climbed this year, for example: Peking University and Tsinghua University (from China) and Corea  has four universities together with Pohang University of Science and Technology.
The news mentions to Britain, because is the country that maintains its position (second) in the rankings and the first position maintains United States. A ranking previous to Times Higher Education rankings was also dominated by the universities of United States.
The report discloses the opinion of Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group; he says that if is concrete in keep on top the government should invest where it will have a most impact, in research-intensive higher education and universities leading.

You can find this news, in this link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/03/british-universities-set-collapse-mediocrity