Nick Clegg, the party's leader, pledged to divert almost £7bn from other areas to enable the state to again fund degree courses for full and part-time students.
Previously, the majority of prisoner degrees were paid for by grants from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, but now the only grants available are being funded by charities such as the Longford Trust and PET, which for understandable reasons can fund degree modules only in exceptional circumstances.
Around a dozen of the country's 93 sixth-form colleges have already dipped their toes in the water of funding degree courses – although Peter Symonds is by far the largest provider – with the cash from the fees then used to offset cuts.
Increasingly, however, funders of medical research the world over are seeking, in research assessment, to complement traditional output measures of scientific publications – such as number of publications, number of citations, impact factor, research funding, degree of co-authorship, and h-index [ 2, 3] – with more outcome-based indicators of societal and economic impact [ 4- 15].
This market revolution will, say its architects, simultaneously free the taxpayer from the responsibility of funding degrees, improve the quality of student learning and give lazy professors a kick up the backside.
The higher education teaching budget has been cut by 80%, and cut by 100% for most subjects, which means that instead of the fees being a top-up on record levels of public expenditure, they are actually replacing entirely publicly funded degrees.
Müller originally started having sex for money in order to fund her degree in design, and went full-time seven years ago.
Morrisons will fund the degree studies of 1,000 A-level students in a move to recruit its future senior managers straight from school.
Morrisons is going to fund the degree studies of 1,000 A-level students in a move to recruit its future senior managers straight from school.
Not easy to come to terms with for someone who stood more than 6ft and once earned money as a catwalk model to help fund her degree in fine art at Coventry University, next to the Herbert Art Gallery where her joint exhibition with Flora Parrott has opened.
By providing an alternative to taking on debt to fund a degree and postgraduate study, the profession has taken some big steps to addressing the issue of elitism and will undoubtedly benefit from attracting talent that would otherwise not have naturally gravitated towards a career in law.
