Students given role in university reforms?

Students are to be given a role in holding universities to account, it has been announced.
The National Union of Students (NUS) has been asked to help regulate institutions as part of the Government's latest bid to reform higher education.
The move is part of a plan by ministers to give more powers to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) - the body which hands grants to universities for research and teaching. Read more...