Universities and colleges lacking in any real accreditation and quality are still causing problems for foreign students wishing to study in the UK. Even though the UK government has been on something of a drive to close down these bogus establishments and indeed hundreds have been shut down, it seems to have had little impact [...]
Too often you see people claiming that the only way into a particular career is through academic qualifications at a highly prestigious education facility. But is this really the best way to ply your trade on the way up, or is there another method?
Obviously certain careers are only achievable through formal education at a university [...]
All of the UK’s universities are set to lose a total of £65m of funding from the government. The loss will be shared among them on a student population basis, with the Open University set to lose £2.5m and the University of Manchester £1.4m.
The government agency, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has claimed [...]
A recent government report in the UK has judged that it is becoming increasingly hard for students to get accepted into courses which lead to a professional career unless they are from a more affluent background. This goes against previous consensus that getting into careers in fields such as medicine and law was becoming easier [...]
The recession is responsible for a lot of problems in the world at the moment, but one that wasn’t quite foreseen was the additional strain it has put on the education sector.
The UK government have released figures which show that the numbers applying for university places have risen by 9% since 2009 (around 40,000 places) [...]
A teacher has been suspended from her job in Yorkshire after she produced a book aimed at getting a group of disaffected kids to read.
The book was based around her students and was the 2nd attempt at writing a book specifically for them to get them interested in what she was teaching. The first attempt [...]
The topic of university fees is always a controversial one, attracting attention in the media every time it rears its ugly head. The current global financial situation has added to this recently as university leavers are mounting up record levels of debt by simply going to university.
The new policies being outlined by the government involve [...]
A question on a GCSE paper has raised some questions of its own after people objected to the wording used – and it is over the controversial evolution-creationism debate.
The UK has been very resistant to teaching creationism as a theory with any form of scientific basis, with numerous studies and research pieces drawing the same [...]
The term ‘e-learning’ is an odd one. No-one can really define it as a solid entity and depending on which institution you go to, chances are they will see it differently. So, in the interests of getting your opinions I thought I’d have a stab at defining it myself…
To me, e-learning is not the same [...]
University graduates are facing ever decreasing prospects due to the recession, research shows. The job market is shrinking with fewer vacancies for graduates to apply for, leading to higher numbers of people applying for the jobs which are there.
With the UK government responding to the jobs crisis by telling graduates to ‘go abroad’ and get [...]
