{"id":1863,"date":"2014-07-09T10:41:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:41:59","slug":"the-guardian-university-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2014\/07\/09\/the-guardian-university-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian University Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/104466_the_guardian_logo_square_small.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/104466_the_guardian_logo_square_small.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"104466_the_guardian_logo_square_small\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The Creative Writing Programme here at UoG, along with the English Literature course, had some good news recently.\u00a0 The Guardian has released its 2015 University Guide, and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2014\/jun\/03\/university-guide-2015-league-table-for-english-and-creative-writing\">league tables<\/a> we have jumped up 12 places, and currently sit at 16th overall in the UK.\u00a0 As our students know, we don&#8217;t put much stock in these ratings systems &#8211; the various factors and statistics that contribute to a university&#8217;s overall ranking aren&#8217;t necessarily ones we see as valid &#8211; but when the (somewhat) arbitrary scales tip in our favour we&#8217;re happy to take that at face value.\u00a0 Our higher rating is no doubt partly due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2014\/03\/12\/the-best-creative-writing-course-in-england-and-wales-if-not-the-world\/\">100% overall student satisfaction<\/a> Creative Writing achieved in last year&#8217;s National Student Survey, the highest of any U.K. university, a result due not just to the passion and dedication of our staff, but also the enthusiasm of our many talented students.\u00a0 We look forward to seeing you all in September!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Writing Programme here at UoG, along with the English Literature course, had some good news recently.\u00a0 The Guardian has released its 2015 University Guide, and in the league tables we have jumped up 12 places, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}