This is bad news not only for them, but also for colleges that run degree courses.
The Guardian can also disclose that the Scottish Police college could soon extend its role in the Maldives by helping run degree courses for a new policing academy, despite the growing international condemnation of Maldives police conduct over the last 10 months.
His view is that it's probably possible to run degree courses where learners help each other in smallish groups with educators on hand to guide at critical points and answer the big questions, though students will need to be extremely driven to get through.
In 2002, Loughborough University, which ran degree courses at the college, was going to create a city campus but decided to drop the idea.
At the same time, universities often find themselves struggling to balance academic objectives such as running degree-level training, with policy-relevant work such as regular engagement with decision-makers to ensure the uptake of HPSR+A research into policy and practice.
Although University of Essex partner colleges already run foundation degrees in business and management, this will be the university's first online course.
In addition, ocean temperatures have been running five degrees below normal, in the upper 50's and lower 60's -- a teeth-chattering swim at best.
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said he still agreed with Mr. Obama about closing the Guantánamo prison, but he called the president's assertion that Al Qaeda was on the run "a degree of unreality that to me is really incredible".
Last November, schoolchildren started planting thousands of saplings along the Paris Meridian, the line running 2 degrees 20 minutes 14 seconds east of Greenwich, from Dunkirk to Prats-de-Molo on the Spanish border.
