The International Monetary Fund has announced it will use the edX massive open online course platform to deliver economics courses to government officials and eventually the public.
A firm grasp of written English and a passion for a chosen course subject are the most desired attributes in university applicants aside from exam grades, according to a survey of admissions officers, but their social background does not figure so highly.
Vince Cable, the business secretary, says he has 鈥渞uled out categorically鈥 any rise in interest rates for graduates who took out student loans before 2012, while stressing that plans for a sale of student loans are ongoing
The proportion of students entering Russell Group universities who are state-educated has fallen in the last decade, a report from a government commission on social mobility has said.
The University of Liverpool has been accused of 鈥減utting a gun to the head鈥 of almost 3,000 staff who a union says face losing their jobs unless they accept altered working terms and conditions
The government should urgently clarify its plans for the sale of the student loan book and reassure existing graduates that their repayments will not be raised, according to Labour鈥檚 shadow higher education minister.
The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency data show