Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
11 Jun 2012
Plans to put students at the heart of the system were announced by Ministers today, as they set out their response to the Higher Education White Paper.
Red-tape barring some smaller specialist institutions from being awarded the title of university will be ditched. Previously, institutions needed 4,000 students to become a university, but from today this limit will drop to 1,000 - sweeping away an arbitrary piece of regulation that was preventing excellent institutions using the title.
The change will come into effect immediately.
There will also be a review into how existing quality assurance arrangements affect alternative providers, including further education colleges offering higher education.
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