El alumnado en másteres oficiales ha aumentado en el curso 2010-2011 un 29,5 por ciento respecto al anterior, ya que se matricularon 180.433 alumnos más, según el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), que también apunta a que ocho de cada diez estudiantes de este ciclo eligió una universidad pública para cursarlo. Asimismo, el número de másteres alcanzó en ese año académico la cifra de 2.930, casi 670 más que en 2009-2010 y finalizaron estos programas en 2011 un total de 45.748 alumnos de los que el 56,6 por ciento eran mujeres.
A private college in London has been given the power to award its own degrees in a move the government says will increase competition in England's higher education system.
Figures show that leading Russell Group universities spent £382 million (US$613 million) on the highest paid academics and managers last year – twice as much as in 2003-04. It also emerged that the proportion of university spending on top staff – those paid at least £100,000 a year – increased from just 1.8% to 3.8%, writes Graeme Paton for The Telegraph.
A scheme to fund more student places at private universities is under fire after the Universities minister, David Willetts, admitted that no checks are made on whether undergraduates complete their course.
Singapore and the United Kingdom will work together to raise standards in private education in both countries. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to do so was signed on Friday by the Council for Private Education (CPE) Singapore and the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) United Kingdom.