Tag: UK Universities

• Monday, July 2nd 2018 - 07:03 UTC

  EU university students in UK will have same treatment as home students in post Brexit

  

  European Union students at universities in England will continue to be treated the same as home students in the first intake after Brexit. UK Education Secretary Damian Hinds says EU students starting in autumn 2019 will pay the same tuition fees as English ones and their access to support will be unchanged.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 16:55 UTC

  UK launches ambitious online university project with 21 institutions listed

  

  The UK's biggest online university project has been launched, with more than 20 universities offering free courses. Students will be able to follow courses on mobile phones as well as computers. The UK's project, called FutureLearn, sees UK universities entering the global market in so-called Moocs - massive open online courses.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 05:05 UTC

  UK plans to expand education-exports industry and attract 90.000 extra overseas university students by 2018

  

  An ambitious strategy to expand United Kingdom’s education exports industry – revealed for the first time as worth £17.5 billion to the economy – has been published.

• Friday, September 28th 2012 - 01:12 UTC

  UK universities take four of six top slots in global rating

  

  UK universities have taken four of the six top slots in a global university “league table” for 2011-12. Cambridge - top last year - was second in the QS World University Rankings, which are based on a number of areas.