Great Britain: government seeking to control the quality of third level diplomas and facilitate apprenticeships

On 17 July the UK government announced that going forward it would be limiting the number of ‘low-value’ degrees on offer. ‘Students and taxpayers will be better protected against rip-off degree courses that have high drop-out rates, don’t lead to good jobs and leave young people with poor pay and high debts,’ promised the Department for Education, without however specifying how many and which third level course would be concerned. In concrete terms, going forward the Office for Students (publi