Colleges gamble on cut-price degrees

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Over three quarters of omixed economyo further and higher education colleges in the UK intend to offer cut-price degrees when top-up fees are introduced in 2006-2007, with many colleges opting to charge nothing. While these colleges are aiming to attract students from the area local to the college and students from low-income households, they do accept that there is a possibility that cheaper degrees could be perceived as being of a lesser quality than more expensive degrees and note that they will be reviewing their charges in 2007.

Strategy & planning, Commodity & service prices, Planning, Prices and rates, College costs, Higher education costs, Company business planning, Company pricing policy

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A dirty job but a sexy price tag

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Mining has become a 'sexy' subject, according to Bob pine, director of the Camborne School of Mines, part of Exeter University. In the 1990s the school had 15 undergraduates but now has 30 and could take 40.

Curricula, Study and teaching, Mines and mineral resources, Mining

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