Daily Archives: February 19, 2010
Tuition Fees: “The future looks pretty grim”
University tuition fees are likely to soar to £5,000 a year by 2010-2011. The think-tank Policy Exchange said last week’s announcement of £449m in government cuts to higher education made increasing fees, which are currently capped at £3,225 a year, all the more critical.
A Future in Physics?
Experts from the University of Portsmouth have lent their services for the benefit of A-level students at Portsmouth Grammar School. The experts hail from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG), whose research has been rated as amongst the best in the UK along with such institutions as Oxford, Cambridge and Durham.
New Uni Course
In the midst of all this talk of HE cuts, the University of Portsmouth Business School has in fact got a new course to introduce. The new distance-learning forensic accounting course is the University’s response to the growing need for such specialists during this recession.