"If the UK starts to withdraw from the international stage, its position in the upper echelons of the rankings will suffer," says Phil Baty of the Times Higher Education rankings.
People from the middle class and upper echelons of society would never be caught wearing jeans.
TalentSmart has tested more than a million people and found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people who are high in emotional intelligence (90% of top performers, to be exact).
Currently, there's a trend for new labels launching themselves into the marketplace to pitch themselves at the highest echelons of luxury, with starting prices reaching into the hundreds, and big-ticket items costing several thousands.
The likely reason for that is that, in many careers, it's hard to break through to the top echelons without putting in long hours.
The most troubling numbers show up far beneath the upper echelons of higher education.
So it's no surprise that smart folks from the higher echelons of every discipline have their own in-jokes.
