“Undergraduate degrees where students live away from home for three years ‘should not be the norm’, England’s universities minister has said. Giving evidence to the House of Commons Education Committee’s inquiry into value for money at universities on 24 April, Sam Gyimah said that he considered the traditional three-year degree taken by most UK undergraduates ‘quite an old model’ and that he wanted universities to be more ‘fleet of foot’ by offering alternative qualifications, such as intensive two-year honours degrees and degree apprenticeships …” (more)
[Jack Grove, Times Higher Education, 24 April]