
Poor quality university courses will be soon endangered
New government plans might prevent universities from recruiting students for poor-quality courses. It might affect the way how students are choosing their career paths in the near future.
As BBC just wrote, "Ministers will ask the independent regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to limit numbers on courses that do not have 'good outcomes'." What they mean is that the less-important courses might be even closed if the new regulations will be sooner or later introduced.
Education Minister Robert Halfon shared his belief that such measures should improve the quality of the courses in the universities in the UK.
It is all related to earnings and "good outcomes" - the UK government believes that if students do not earn better sums or if they quickly drop out of those particular courses, then there is no sense in trying to preserve them.
Besides, even PM Rishi Sunak added his own vision to the discussion.
He said: "The UK is home to some of the best universities in the world and studying for a degree can be immensely rewarding. But too many young people are being sold a false dream and end up doing a poor-quality course at the taxpayers' expense that doesn't offer the prospect of a decent job at the end of it."
It will be interesting to see how the next government restrictions might change the future of millions of students in the UK.
Main source: BBC