{"id":627875,"date":"2025-12-12T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/627875\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:36:18","slug":"manchester-metropolitan-tops-university-sustainability-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/627875\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metropolitan tops university sustainability league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In this way, investments in sustainability are crucial for the long-term health of universities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The table ranks 147 UK universities against 14 criteria linked to sustainability and ethics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Universities receive award classes that follow the typical degree grading system in UK higher education, namely 1st, 2:1, 2:2, 3rd and Fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool John Moores University, which ranked 15th overall, was awarded a 1st alongside Alongside Manchester Metropolitan and the University of Salford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s biggest climbers included Edge Hill University in Liverpool, which jumped 56 places from number 120 to 64, moving from a 3rd to a 2:1 classification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was partly due to its decision to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;In this way, investments in sustainability are crucial for the long-term health of universities.&#8221; The table ranks 147&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-627875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115705452045432120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}