HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) has announced that £150 million is to be cut from its teacher funding grants for the 2015/16 financial year – a 2.4% cut. The cut, which will be spread over the 2014/15 and 2015/16 academic years, will go towards the £450 million that the Department of Business,
University students graduating from class 2015 are said to have the highest student debts in history according to the recent UK graduate career survey, by High Flyers Research. This is the first cohort of graduates that have had to pay the increased university fees of up to £9000 which has left many of them with average
International student recruitment in the UK is no longer a one-way street, with more and more UK-based students expressing an interesting in studying at some level in other countries. According to research from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the 2013/2014 academic year saw over 28,000 UK students undertaking studies overseas. This record-high level of
Are universities in the UK doomed to become playgrounds solely of the rich and those willing to take on significant debt? These were the fears cited by both current and prospective students, as they reacted to the news that maintenance grants are to be replaced by loans – beginning in the academic year, 2016/17 –