UK postgraduate education is critically dependent upon international students, but risks severe damage if overseas demand falters. This is a key conclusion of the first report from the Higher Education Commission, a new UK body with cross-party political support and backing from the British university sector. Since 1999, the number of postgraduate students from outside

Student numbers are increasing more quickly in the developing world than in industrialised countries, but much of the growth is in vocational courses rather than university degrees, new research has demonstrated. A report by The Research Base (www.Theresearchbase.com), a UK consultancy specialising in education and skills, shows enrolments on academic courses rising fastest in Africa,

An annual poll has found that students studying at UK universities are more satisfied with their universities than at any time over the past eight years. The National Student Survey (NSS), carried out every year since 2005, measures the responses of students at 154 higher education institutions, as well as a slightly smaller number of

Aside from the UK’s University of Cambridge (number one in 2010 and 2011), only two universities have topped the QS World University Rankings. Harvard University, which held on to the top spot between 2004 and 2009 (it is number three this year), and this year’s first time table-topper, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The

There is only one problem with the world’s top universities; not everyone can go. They are too far away, the fees are too massive, or you have other things to do with your life. Now all that is about to change, according to the supporters of MOOCs. This is an acronym you had better learn.