A-level results were released today. Sixth Formers have received a record number of A-level passes. However many will be faced with a mad scramble to find places through the clearing system in its most competitive year. The University admissions service has advised that 135,114 students are eligible for clearing this year, but only 22,000 places [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
