MIDDLESEX University has come third in a performance table of former polytechnics.

Only the University of Westminster and Robert Gordon University, in Aberdeen came higher in the Financial Times table.

Middlesex came first among new universities in a table of graduates going on to a higher degree.

The vice chancellor of the Southgate based university, Michael Driscoll, said: "This is the recognition we deserve as one of the top modern universities in the UK.''

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