{"id":7282,"date":"2025-09-30T07:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:57:05","slug":"manchester-uni-wins-modern-university-of-the-year-2026-accolade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/manchester-uni-wins-modern-university-of-the-year-2026-accolade\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester uni wins \u2018Modern University of the Year 2026\u2019 accolade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester Metropolitan University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has recently been named Modern University of the Year 2026 by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk-university-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The guide is widely acknowledged as a definitive guide for UK higher education, with 67 subject tables, based on four indicators: student satisfaction, research quality, entry standards and graduate prospects. Manchester Metropolitan University ranked 38th, demonstrating it\u2019s exceptional progress and performance in key areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Modern University of the Year 2026 award is one of the most prestigious amongst education, and is a testament to the dedication the Manchester university has to future students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said: \u201cIt is great to see Manchester Metropolitan University named \u2018Modern University of the Year 2026\u2019, a thoroughly deserved achievement.\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on the achievement, Professor Malcolm Press CBE DL, Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan, said: \u201cBeing named Modern University of the Year 2026 is a tremendous achievement and a fantastic recognition of the dedication, creativity, and hard work of colleagues across Manchester Met. This award is a milestone we can all be proud of and a testament to what we can achieve together as a University community.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metropolitan University has recently been named Modern University of the Year 2026 by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.\u00a0 The guide is widely acknowledged as a definitive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7283,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions\/7283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}