By Miranda Prynne. Complaints and appeals recieved by universities rise by ten per cent as students paying £9000-a-year are forced to watch lectures online and travel miles between campuses. Read more...By Graeme Paton. David Willetts, the Universities Minister, backs the introduction of major/minor degrees in Britain, saying the system is needed to meet student demand for greater 'breadth'. Read more...By Graeme Paton. Research by the BBC finds that 20,000 university students complained over their degree grade and quality of courses last year, with numbers rising by 10 per cent following a hike in tuition fees. Read more...By Graeme Paton. School leavers should consider alternatives to university as the UK will need more workers with practical skills in the future, a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research warns. Read more...By Telegraph View. As the cost of education has gone up, so too have the expectations of undergraduates. It would be nice to live in a world where no complaint is ever necessary – but sometimes a rise in complaints is a healthy sign of growing consumer power. Take higher education, where a freedom of information request reveals that more than 20,000 students paying tuition fees have expressed dissatisfaction in the past year. That represents a jump of 10 per cent, and possibly shows that as the cost of education has gone up, so too have the expectations of undergraduates. Read more...By A N Wilson. As record numbers of students complain that the teaching is not worth the fees, A N Wilson argues that it is impossible to put a value on eccentric dons, time-wasting and learning to think. Read more...By Matthew Stadlen. Professor John Carey has called for 'something drastic to be done' about the low number of state school pupils attending Oxford University. Read more...By Graeme Paton. Research commissioned by the Department for Education says that universities should accept pupils from comprehensives with lower entry grades than students from state grammars and private schools. Read more...
By . A “magic carpet” that protects the elderly from falls and clothing that detects cancer risk among ground-breaking higher education research projects. The theme of Universities Week 2014, which started today and runs until 15 June 2014, is the relevance of university research and its everyday impact on our lives. More...
By Isabel López Ruiz. Brazil will aim to be spend 10 per cent of GDP on education within a decade after a national plan was passed by the country’s main legislature. The National Congress of Brazil passed the National Education Plan (Plan Nacional de Educação, PNE) on 3 June, around four years after the proposal was initially tabled by the Ministry for Education. More...
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