Item: News Digest for February 18, 2010
U.K. university faces fine for exceeding enrolment cap:
Anglia Ruskin University will have to pay a $1,069,100 fine to the British government for enrolling too many students. The U.K. has an enrolment cap policy, and the country’s universities secretary says the university will have to pay more than $6,000 for every student it accepts over the cap. Application numbers in the U.K. are up 50 per cent since last year but the Higher Education Funding Council says funding to universities has been cut $732.7 million. They estimate this will mean a reduction of at least 6,000 students across the country.