Russell Group
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Established	1994
Members	20
Continent	Europe
Country	United Kingdom
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The Russell Group is a group of large research-led British universities established in 1994 to represent their interests to the Government, Parliament and other similar bodies. It is sometimes referred to as the British equivalent of the Ivy League of the United States[1], and contains most of the United Kingdom's leading universities with 18 of its 20 members in the top 20 in terms of research funding^{[citation needed]}. Nineteen smaller research universities formed the 1994 Group in response. Most United Kingdom universities can be classified into 5 main categories, Ancient universities - universities founded before the 19th century Red Brick universities - universities founded in the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... For the record label, see Ivy League Records. ... The 1994 Group is a coalition of smaller research-intensive universities founded to defend their interests after the larger research-intensive universities founded the Russell Group. ...

In 2004/5, Russell Group Universities accounted for 65% (over £1.8billion) of UK Universities' research grant and contract income, 56% of all doctorates awarded in the United Kingdom, and over 30% of all students studying in the United Kingdom from outside the EU^[1]. In the 2001 national Research Assessment Exercise, 78% of the staff in Grade 5* departments and 57% of the staff in Grade 5 departments were located in Russell Group Universities^[2], and in 2004/5 Russell Group Universities were allocated approximately 64% of the total quality-related research funding (QR) allocated by the Funding Councils^[3].

Objectives

The Russell Group states that its objectives are to:

• lead the UK's research effort;
• maximise income for its member institutions;
• attract the best staff and students to those institutions;
• create the regulatory environment in which it can achieve these objectives by reducing government interference; and
• identify ways to co-operate in order to exploit the universities' collaborative advantage.

It works towards these objectives by lobbying the UK Government and Parliament; by commissioning reports, research and opinion polls; and by creating a forum in which the universities can discuss issues of common concern and identify ways to work together. Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling. ...

Leadership

The group is chaired by Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College London. The Group's Executive Director is Michael Carr, Registrar of the University of Liverpool.[2] Professor Malcolm Grant is the Provost of University College London. ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, is a college of the University of London. ... The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. ...

Name

The Russell Group is so named because the first informal meetings of the Group took place at the Russell Hotel in Russell Square, London, generally shortly before meetings of Universities UK (formerly known as Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, or CVCP) in Tavistock Square. Russell Square Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Universities UK began life as the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom (CVCP) in the nineteenth century when there were informal meetings involving Vice-Chancellors of a number of universities and Principals of university colleges. ... Tavistock Square Tavistock Square is a square in Bloomsbury, London. ...

Research funding

In terms of total research funding in 2004/5 research funding allocations from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the top 15 universities were all Russell Group institutions^{[citation needed]} - the exceptions being the LSE, which is 22nd due to its focus on less lucrative social science research (The Queen's University of Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh are not included in this table, not being English institutions). The Russell Group institutions received 65% of the total HEFCE research funding allocation [3]. The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ... Queens University, Belfast - or officially The Queens University of Belfast (QUB; in Irish, Ollscoil na Banríona, Béal Feirste) - is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... The main building of Cardiff University Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cardiff University Cardiff University (Welsh: Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a leading university located in the civic centre of Cardiff, Wales. ... The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, in Glasgow, Scotland. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

It should be noted that the research funding figures depend on factors other than the quality of research, in particular there are variations due to institutional size and subject spread (i.e. science, technology and medicine tend to attract more money).

Policy on tuition fees

The Russell Group has been prominent in recent years in the debate over the introduction of tuition fees, a measure which it has strongly supported - much to the dismay of the universities' students' union. Indeed, members of the Group argued that even the fees proposed by the controversial Higher Education Bill would not be sufficient to cover the rising cost of undergraduate teaching, and successfully argued for the right to charge variable fees at much higher rates, so-called top-up fees^{[citation needed]}. A students union, student government, or student council is a student organization present at many colleges and universities, often with its own building on the campus, dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body. ... The Higher Education Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which introduced several changes to the higher education system in the United Kingdom. ... Top-up fees (not their official name) are a new way of charging tuition to undergraduate and PGCE students who study at universities in the United Kingdom from the 2006-2007 academic year onwards. ...

Aldwych Group

In response to the Russell Group's support for tuition fees (and other issues), the students' unions of the member universities formed the Aldwych Group as a parallel organisation to represent the common interests of their students. The Aldwych Group is the group of students unions of the members of the Russell Group of Universities in Britain. ...

The members

The current membership of the Group is: [4]

• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge
• Cardiff University
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• Imperial College London
• King's College London
• University of Leeds
• University of Liverpool
• London School of Economics
• University of Manchester
• Newcastle University
• University of Nottingham
• Queen's University of Belfast (QUB)
• University of Oxford
• University of Sheffield
• University of Southampton
• University College London
• University of Warwick

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See also

• Oxbridge
• University of Wales (the founding member of the federation are leading Research Universities in Wales as well as the United Kingdom}
• 1994 Group (smaller research-led British universities, including Durham, St Andrews, York and East Anglia)
• Association of American Universities (a group comprising 62 leading research universities in the USA and Canada)
• Public Ivies (a group comprising some of the most prestigious public universities in the USA)
• Ivy League (a group comprising some of the most prestigious private universities in the USA)
• Little Ivies ( a group comprising some of the most prestigious private liberal arts colleges in the USA)
• Coimbra Group (a network of leading European universities)
• Group of Thirteen (G13) (a group of leading Canadian universities)
• Group of Eight (Go8) (a group of leading Australian universities)
• Aldwych Group (Students' Unions of the Russell Group universities – generally opposed to Russell Group policies such as higher tuition fees)
• British university
• Campaigning for Mainstream Universities (Group of the ex-polytechnics)
• Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities
• Red Brick university
• Campus university
• Universitas 21 (a worldwide network of leading research universities)

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Notes

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External links

• Information on HERO
• Russell Group website
• Aldwych Group website
• Boris Johnson calls awareness to the unsettling fact that 9 of the Russell Group Universities have fewer than 30 black students
• 2001 research rankings for British Universities