Certain UK universities have initiated an online project in collaboration, which intends to provide the public access to higher educational courses through computers, smartphones or tablets. The online higher educational project, launched by the UK universities, plans to challenge the US universities that have dominated this emerging online higher education market. The UK universities will present online higher education courses from 2013. The UK universities’ online higher educational project will…

The UK’s education system has been adjudged the sixth best in the world, and the second best in Europe, owing to its strong science teaching and its high literacy, school completion and university graduation rates, as revealed by education firm Pearson’s survey of top 20 countries offering best education system in the world. Finland tops the list, followed by South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. The UK, which is considered as…

10,000 students will demonstrate protest in London today near the Embankment, on the north side of the Thames, to express their anger on the mounting financial and other burdens, which will be the first national protest organised by National Union of Students (NUS) since two years. Two years ago, a wave of unrest over tuition fees saw students’ violent clashes with the police leading to many injuries and arrests. Dubbed as Demo 2012,…

Student accommodation in universities has doubled in just 10 years, amidst growing fears over student debt levels, according to a student union report. The rise in university accommodation prices is likely to place many undergraduates out of university accommodation altogether, as the basic student loan of £5,000 is barely enough to cover living costs such as rent, and other overheads such as food, travel and books. Figures of National Union of Students (NUS) survey show that the…

Hungry children in UK schools are rising, is the unsettling conclusion of a report presented by Kellogg’s. The report and the preceding research have indicated that a shortage of money and interest in parents in providing a wholesome breakfast to their kids has led to pupils turning up to their schools in a hungry state. As per the report, nearly 80% of the 500 teachers, questioned during the research, have…

Professor Eric Thomas, president of Universities UK (UUK), said that the UK has failed to fulfil its duty towards overseas students, who are affected by the decision to strip off London Metropolitan University’s sponsor licence to admit foreign students. The outrage came from Professor Thomas, who is also the vice-chancellor of Bristol University, after Universities Minister David Willets declared a £2 million fund to aid London Metropolitan University’s international students,…

After Ofqual admitted to its folly regarding the grading fiasco, Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has confirmed that the GCSEs will be replaced with a more stringent qualification system similar to the O-Levels. An announcement on this replacement for GCSEs is likely to be made in the autumn after consultation, which would also christen the new exam, Gove said. Gove joined the exams regulatory in admitting that students who appeared…

Ofqual, the exams regulatory board, has admitted to having identified the GCSE grading system loopholes three years ago itself, but failed to take action, which has lead to messed up mark sheets for most pupils in this year’s GCSE exam results. The watchdog accepted to have known about the questionable grade boundaries which were set in a small number of English units over the past few years. The regulator is…

London Metropolitan University has been stripped off its rights to admit foreign students and will no longer be allowed to authorise visas, which means that more than 2,000 students face deportation from Britain. The University declared on its website that its Highly Trusted Status (HTS) for sponsoring international students has been revoked. The declaration means that unless they find another sponsor within 60 days, the students face the danger of…

As around 650,000 students await the GCSE exam results that will be declared today, several schools in England face the threat of closure and takeover, following the rising numbers of state secondaries failing to achieve rigorous targets imposed by the government. It is feared by experts that around 250 schools fell short of the target due to a series of reforms introduced over the past few years by the government…