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Large numbers of degree courses for 2012 entry have been slashed. Government-funding cuts and the new market in higher education have lead to over 5000 degree courses being cut by vice-chancellors. UCAS data sugg... More

27 universities and colleges are said to want to reduce their tuition fees for 2012. Just weeks before the UCAS application deadline, OFFA (the Office for Fair Access) has received applications from 27 universities an... More

Two 17-year olds have challenged the legality of the government's decision to let English universities almost treble their 2012 tuition fees. Callum Hurley and Katy Moore argue that this decision is in breach of their huma... More

UCAS has presented radical proposals which would mean that, if accepted, university applications from 2014 onwards would only be accepeted after A-level results had been published. Predicted results would not nee... More

The first UCAS figures in this year's application cycle show a 12% drop in UK applications, with women's applications falling twice as fast as men's. Courses hardest hit were in mass communication and documentation (d... More

Employers are increasingly looking for highly-qualified staff with a second degree - typically a  masters or doctorate - according to an LSE  study. Those with a second degree are typically paid 13% more than tho... More

University applications for 2012 are down by 9%. Although it's early days in the application cycle, the first official figures show a fall of 9% overall, after applications closed for Oxford, Cambridge and the medical and ... More

The University of Wales has been effectively abolished, after a damning report on a visa scam in a London college offering its degrees. However, the university is at the start of a new beginning, says its new Vice Chancell... More

A radical shake-up of the university applications calendar has been proposed by the chief executive of UCAS, Mary Curnock Cook.  By 2016. A-levels would be taken at Easter and UCAS applications would be made after the... More