Shanghai Jiao Tong university rankings revealed
The top ten universities in the world have remained unchanged in the 2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings, but for the first time China has more universities in the top 500 than the UK.
The top ten universities in the world have remained unchanged in the 2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings, but for the first time China has more universities in the top 500 than the UK.
Education company Pearson has launched a college that will offer degrees through the FTSE 100 company's partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London.

By Libby A. Nelson for Inside Higher Ed
The main body representing universities in the UK has sought to reassure students in the light of "doom-laden" forecasts about how admissions will pan out after this year's A-level results are...

Planning permission for a £1 billion development by the University of Cambridge has been granted.
Teenagers from poor families are half as likely to progress to higher education as those from richer ones, a new report shows.
England's funding council has commissioned educational research company i-graduate to research the information needs of taught postgraduates, who now make up around one fifth of all UK students.
About 15,000 young people may have been deterred from applying to university by the trebling of tuition fees, an independent taskforce has said.

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