Universities to be fined for awarding too many top degrees
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  • Mar 24, 2019
Damian Hinds wants universities fined up to £500,000 for awarding too many firsts
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Rate of young people getting degrees halves
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  • Mar 18, 2019
MillionPlus comment on the IFS ‘Where is the money going?’ report
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IFS’ English loans report ‘builds pressure to cut tuition fees’
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Creative arts degrees cost taxpayers 30% more than engineering degrees
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Policy Watch: IFS report on the government cost of different degrees
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More students starting degrees in January to give them edge in jobs market, university says
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  • Jan 13, 2019
Arts degrees ‘are vital part of our education’
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The market forces driving university grade inflation (Letters)
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  • Dec 26, 2018
Times Letters: Grade inflation and university autonomy
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The Times view on grade inflation: British universities need to dispel suspicions
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  • Dec 22, 2018
Universities cannot justify as many as three quarters of first‑class degrees
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  • Dec 22, 2018
How to tackle grade inflation? Open university exams to all | Sonia Sodha
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  • Dec 20, 2018
More women have degrees, but men are closing the gap
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  • Dec 20, 2018
Rise in firsts ‘unexplained’ at most English universities
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Telegraph view: Grade inflation at our universities has to end
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Universities face fines or being struck off if they keep handing out too many first-class degrees
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  • Dec 19, 2018
The number of students getting first-class degrees has soared in recent years
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Universities told to end 'spiralling' grade inflation
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Public confidence in higher education at risk amid 'spiralling' grade inflation at universities, regulator warns
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  • Dec 19, 2018
OfS analysis of changes in degree classifications
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Grade inflation 'bigger at universities than colleges'
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  • Dec 19, 2018
University gives half its students a first-class degree
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Ireland: More women have degrees, but men are closing the gap
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Universities watchdog threatens fines over grade inflation
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  • Dec 19, 2018
Laura McInerney: Degrees for the rich, apprenticeships for the poor – that’s not a world of parity
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  • Dec 18, 2018
Employers prefer candidates to be socially adept and punctual than have academic qualifications, UK study reveals
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  • Dec 18, 2018
Universities may have to axe 'soft' degrees amid a student loan crackdown
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  • Dec 16, 2018
Universities are to offer two year fast-track degrees which will leave students up to £25,000 better off
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  • Nov 18, 2018
Two-year degree plan to cut cost of tuition fees
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  • Nov 18, 2018
Students could pay 20% more per year for speedy degrees
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  • Nov 18, 2018
Does it matter what degree grade you get?
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  • Oct 22, 2018
University 'grade inflation' to be tackled as first-class degrees rise
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  • Oct 22, 2018
Government unveils measures to tackle grade inflation at universities
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  • Oct 22, 2018
University grade inflation to be tackled as first-class degrees rise
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  • Oct 22, 2018
UK universities face grade inflation crackdown
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  • Oct 22, 2018
Universities to be punished for awarding 'too many' top degrees in new rating system
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  • Oct 22, 2018
Government announces plan to tackle 'grade inflation' at UK universities
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  • Oct 22, 2018
Universities found guilty of grade inflation will be penalised in rankings under Government plans
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  • Oct 22, 2018
Online learning is a friend, not a foe, of traditional education
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  • Oct 13, 2018
Top 5 ways young people can make themselves more employable
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  • Oct 9, 2018
Universities have become graduate factories, just ones that care little about their output
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  • Oct 6, 2018
First-generation students less likely to pick arts and humanities
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  • Sep 26, 2018
Universities must give more top degrees to black students, under new proposals by regulator
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Top ten most employable degrees in 2018
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Colleges back minimum entry standards for bachelor’s degrees
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Universities UK response to HEPI report on qualifications gap
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  • Aug 23, 2018
The UK's highest paying degrees, according to graduate salary
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  • Aug 15, 2018
University Clearing: the real value of a degree
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Students increasingly turn to private tutors to help them through their degree
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Half of parents would opt for apprenticeships over HE
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Universities will try to lure A-Level students who don't get their grades with 'Mickey Mouse' courses
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  • Aug 15, 2018
University degree or degree apprenticeship: Which route is best?
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  • Aug 13, 2018
PPE at the Strand Group: partnership, practitioners, and experience
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  • Aug 9, 2018
The more people who have degrees the more it devalues them
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A major decision: From engineering to nursing, which bachelor's degrees bring in the big bucks at every stage of your career
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  • Jul 30, 2018
D-Day veteran becomes Britain's oldest university student after second PhD - AGED 95
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  • Jul 27, 2018
Ireland: A degree won’t stop a robot taking your job | David Davin-Power
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  • Jul 25, 2018
Revealed: The university degrees most likely to land you a high salary – and the ones that could leave you languishing on low pay years after you graduate
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  • Jul 24, 2018
Nursing: the future is ‘wicked’
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  • Jul 12, 2018
English universities hit by apprenticeship funding restrictions
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Are degree standards the same at all universities?
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  • Jul 2, 2018
It’s time to let FE providers award their own degrees
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  • Jun 27, 2018
Universities churn out graduates of dubious quality. Let’s privatise them
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  • Jun 23, 2018
What is that First really worth?
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  • Jun 23, 2018
Universities credibility at risk over rise in first class degrees
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  • Jun 22, 2018
Crying “grade inflation” dismisses students’ achievements at university
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  • Jun 22, 2018
Building routes into construction degrees with greater equality
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  • Jun 20, 2018
Richmond becomes first university in UK to award British and US degrees
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  • Jun 1, 2018
Richmond becomes first university in UK to award British and US degrees
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  • May 31, 2018
Geography finds its place among elite
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  • May 23, 2018
Almost a third of students are heading for a first-class degree this year as fears grow over university grade inflation
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  • May 16, 2018
Managing expectations and improving satisfaction
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  • May 8, 2018
First UK Montessori degree to launch
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  • May 8, 2018
Rise in complaints about degree courses
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  • Apr 26, 2018
UK universities use business schools as cash cows
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  • Apr 25, 2018
Women pick medicine in Scottish university gender divide
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  • Apr 20, 2018
Most and least popular first degrees in Scotland revealed
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  • Apr 19, 2018
'Intensive but fun': all you need to know about studying architecture
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  • Apr 18, 2018
Increasing numbers of weak A-level pupils graduating with firsts
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  • Apr 5, 2018
Introducing the university course that teaches you how to form your own record label
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  • Apr 3, 2018
University students are turning to private tutors to get through their degree, survey shows
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  • Mar 28, 2018
Differences in student degree and employment outcomes
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  • Mar 28, 2018
Interested in integrated degrees: it’s time to listen to what students want
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  • Mar 28, 2018
Warwick University to offer joint degrees with European institutions
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  • Mar 28, 2018
Degree in soap operas launched at British university
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  • Mar 23, 2018
Cuts would "destroy Open University as we know it"
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  • Mar 22, 2018
Cost of Britain’s top degrees ‘to hit £120,000 within a decade,’ university chief predicts
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  • Mar 18, 2018
Good educations are being lost in the futile quest for value for money
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  • Mar 18, 2018
A woman is suing her university for providing a 'Micky Mouse degree' - if she wins it will set a dangerous precedent
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  • Mar 16, 2018
Is your university degree barely worth the paper it’s written on? Discuss | Sonia Sodha
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  • Mar 16, 2018
Revealed: Which degrees could earn you the highest graduate salary - and the lowest
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  • Mar 15, 2018
Future graduate pay is no way to rank degrees | Letters
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  • Mar 14, 2018
Subject-level TEF: Government consultation
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Gold, silver and bronze – A new rating system for university courses proposed
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework: subject-level
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Subject-level TEF – a done deal or the start of a consultation?
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  • Mar 12, 2018
MillionPlus comment on the launch of the subject-level TEF consultation
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  • Mar 12, 2018
The value of university degrees will be hard to measure
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Only the truly ignorant would rank universities according to graduate earnings | Suzanne Moore
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  • Mar 12, 2018
University degree courses to be ranked in 'MoneySuperMarket' style system, minister says
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Graduate sues university for £60,000 over ‘Mickey Mouse’ business degree
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Universities to be rated by subject quality
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Degree courses to be ranked in price comparison-type system
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Proposals for consumer-style comparisons for degree courses
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Degrees courses to be rated gold, silver and bronze
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Every university course will get an Ofsted-style ranking published on an official website so students can 'shop' around for the best option
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Ratings plan aims to help students compare courses
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Students to see degree course rankings
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New university ranking system to tell students if they're getting value for money
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  • Mar 12, 2018
Graduate to sue university over ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree
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  • Mar 11, 2018
Graduate, 29, sues university for £60,000 over 'Mickey Mouse' degree because it hasn't helped her land job
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  • Mar 11, 2018
Graduate, 29, sues Anglia Ruskin University for £60,000 over her ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree in international business strategy
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  • Mar 11, 2018
Graduate sues university for £60,000 over her degree in international business
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  • Mar 11, 2018
Graduate sues Anglia Ruskin University claiming she ended up with a 'mickey mouse' degree
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  • Mar 10, 2018
University offers fully fledged science degree online for £5,650
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  • Mar 6, 2018
Are too many graduates getting good degrees?
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  • Mar 5, 2018
Reinvigoration co-Launch 1st online BSc in OpEx with The University of Buckingham
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  • Feb 26, 2018
Universities charging thousands for useless degrees is the great mis-selling scandal of our time
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  • Feb 26, 2018
The UK higher education system is not fit for purpose. We need more apprenticeships
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  • Feb 20, 2018
Are all university courses born equal?
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  • Feb 20, 2018
Murdoch University partners with FutureLearn to deliver online degree courses
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Lady Hale: 'Studying law? Make sure you have the stomach for it'
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Almost 50 universities awarded a First or 2.1 to eight out of ten students last year
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  • Feb 10, 2018
HEFCE introduces first ever measure of vocational degrees
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  • Feb 9, 2018
Italian ruling on English-taught courses “out of touch with reality”
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  • Feb 8, 2018
Britain must end 'obsession' with university degrees, says influential Tory MP
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  • Feb 4, 2018
University lecturers warned they could face investigation if they award too few 2.1s 
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  • Feb 1, 2018
Swiss university unveils yodelling degree
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  • Jan 30, 2018
Taking on grade inflation in UK higher education
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  • Jan 29, 2018
Are today’s degrees really first class?
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  • Jan 29, 2018
Universities are ignoring students’ lowest marks to calculate degree classification, report finds
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  • Jan 25, 2018
Delivering STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills for the economy
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  • Jan 17, 2018
Fake degrees from Pakistan sold to doctors
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  • Jan 17, 2018
Late to law: studying another degree first is a sensible option
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  • Jan 16, 2018
Don’t just consider a degree as the only successful route into the workplace
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  • Jan 16, 2018
'Staggering' trade in fake degrees revealed
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  • Jan 16, 2018
Science degrees not appealing to girls despite rise in A-level take-up
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Cambridge don claims rapid grade inflation is down to tuition fees and students working harder
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  • Jan 12, 2018
Mediation – the postgraduate course that's never been more vital
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The Blue Planet effect: why marine biology courses are booming
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  • Jan 12, 2018
Is the value of a degree decreasing?
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  • Jan 12, 2018
Universities accused of dumbing down higher education by doling out first-class degrees too freely
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  • Jan 12, 2018
More than a quarter of students now get a first-class degree as the rates of people getting the highest honours rises 50% in just five years
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  • Jan 11, 2018
Three quarters of graduates get 2:1 or firsts as regulator issues warning to universities to halt grade inflation
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  • Jan 11, 2018
Quarter of students get firsts amid university grade inflation
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  • Jan 11, 2018
Degrees of confidence
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  • Jan 11, 2018
More degree students graduating with firsts than 2:2s or below
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  • Jan 11, 2018
Higher education student statistics: 2016 to 2017
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  • Jan 11, 2018
All students at 11 universities are awarded degrees
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  • Jan 8, 2018
Which? survey reveals gap in understanding about apprenticeships compared to university
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  • Dec 13, 2017
What online can teach on-campus
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  • Dec 6, 2017
U-turn on two-year degrees predicted as fears grow over funding
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Closing degree attainment gaps
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Closing degree attainment gaps
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  • Nov 28, 2017
2VCs on ... are university degree models stuck in the past?
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  • Nov 22, 2017
Recent graduates concerned that degrees offer poor value for money
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  • Nov 20, 2017
International students don’t see value in two-year degrees
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  • Nov 20, 2017
Degrees of value
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  • Nov 17, 2017
Degrees accused of restricting content to ‘avoid trans sensitivities’
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  • Nov 16, 2017
Here's what to consider before choosing an online degree
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  • Nov 13, 2017
Four-year degree ‘would help end skills shortage
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  • Nov 7, 2017
A Welsh MP launched a furious diatribe against universities after storming out of a meeting
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Key stakeholders explore different approaches to improve consistency in examining student work and degree comparability
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  • May 15, 2017