Queen Margaret University launches a new three-year BSc Nursing degree, offering £10,000 bursaries and NHS placements to fast-track nurse training.

Universities could soon offer fast-track two-year degrees, under a government proposal to be announced today. The degrees will have increased yearly costs but will be no more expensive than degrees ...

Research from The Student Room shows a divide between poorer and more affluent students in opinions about about fast-track degrees. A survey of 12,127 students from the UK found that 44 per cent of ...

A university piloting a new two-year fast-track law degree said today that the course was heavily oversubscribed, with three students chasing each available place. The course at Staffordshire ...

BUDDIES studying at Paisley’s college have been handed a fast-track route towards a university degree. Reid Kerr College bosses have penned a new partnership with The Open University which will give ...

The new courses will run for two years, but ministers claim students will have the same qualification and quality as the standard three-year course UNIVERSITIES are to offer fast-track degrees which ...

THE future of Scotland's four-year degree has come under pressure after a university said it would offer the same qualification over just three years. Abertay University, Dundee, will trial the new ...

Students will be encouraged to take two-year 'fast-track' degrees to ease the university funding crisis, Lord Mandelson said yesterday. The Business Secretary ordered a 'shift away' from traditional ...

William Mohieddeen (Letters, June 27) can be assured that the implications for staff and students of our new fast-track three-year degrees have been and are being taken fully into account. As a former ...

An extra 450 social workers are to be fast-tracked into the profession. ... An extra 450 social workers are to be fast-tracked into the profession. Graduates will be trained in less than half the time ...

Students could graduate from university in just two years under government plans to introduce “fast-track” degrees. The changes would see universities charge more than £13,000 a year for the condensed ...

The two-year courses will have the same qualification and quality as the standard three-year study UNIVERSITIES are to offer fast-track degrees which will leave students around £25,000 better off. The ...