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Excellent results achieved in RAE 2008

70% of research rated as "world leading" or "internationally excellent".

English Literature and Creative Writing are delighted with our results in RAE 2008.

English Literature and Creative Writing are delighted with our excellent results in RAE 2008. 70% of our research was rated as either "world-leading" (4*) or"internationally excellent" (3*). We are currently ranked 16th in the UK in the Times Higher Educational Supplement.

Full results at the RAE website.

The Linguistics section contributed to the university-wide linguistics RAE submission, which also includes linguists in Education, Communication & Language Sciences and Clinical Linguistics. We are third in Britain of terms of the RAE results expressed in FTEs:

Linguistics at Newcastle is ranked third in the UK (out of 27 institutions) according to the Times Good University Guide for 2009.

Published: 19th December 2008