Local vocational colleges are to be allowed to teach degree courses, with the exams set by universities.
But the report also shows the proportion of students who stay on to complete their degree courses.
It offers teacher training courses and a full range of degree courses in the humanities and social sciences.
There was a "duty of care" to students entering the final year of their degree courses, said Mark Field.
Young Kabulis are already surfing the internet and signing up for online degree courses at Indian and Pakistani universities.
And, in 1985, National Technological University became the first school to offer online degree courses via satellite transmission.
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Instead, it incorporates elements of physics and chemistry into several new degree courses such as toxicology, drug design and sports science.
Judging that students were being asked to stay at university for too long, Mr Berlusconi's previous government introduced optional, three-year degree courses.
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At Britain's independent University of Buckingham, the vice-chancellor, Terence Kealey, cheekily welcomed the spending cuts and the two-year undergraduate degree courses that may result.
More of them were therefore likely to take the two sciences normally required for entry onto STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) degree courses at university.
It suggested that many students are left struggling with degree courses because they lack a good understanding of maths, with sixth-formers simply taught to pass exams at A-level.
Or, for even better value, students might look to Europe where fees tend to be minimal and where growing numbers of universities are teaching degree courses in English.
Liberal Democrat Lord Taverne, chairman of the organisation Sense About Science, criticised universities offering bachelor of science degree courses in alternative medicines during questions on 21 December 2010.
Mr Morris claimed the "unrealistic target" of having half of those under 30 to have been in further education by 2010 had led to dumbing down of degree courses.
Because Coursera does not produce its own content or administer degree courses, "you have to work within the framework of the institutions that are actually good at that, " she said.
Degree courses are supposed to last five years, but strikes by unpaid teaching staff and riots by angry students mean the academic year often runs late, sometimes a whole year late.
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Two years ago it started to admit 120 of the best students from local state schools annually to a two-year catch-up programme, with progression to degree courses for those who do well.
The report draws on figures from the admissions body UCAS which show that applications from people aged 21 or over for full-time degree courses starting in 2012-13 have fallen by 11.4% since last year.
Harvard has been a strong proponent of using business cases in its MBA degree courses for years and believes the technique can be used by others to improve the quality of their academic offerings.
Major institutes of higher education, such as the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, either have already begun or soon plan to launch bachelor-degree courses on traditional Chinese medicine.
These included post-degree teaching courses in Mathematics, Science and English, leadership training for school heads and teachers, and other courses under the Malaysian Technical Co-operation Programme, he said during a debate in conjunction with the 184th Unesco executive board session.
From September, it will be offering a postgraduate law degree, including the courses needed to become a solicitor.
It has opened a new teacher-training campus with courses to degree level.
While online courses and degree programs are approaches that are being adopted by many schools, franchise-like affiliation with local and regional institutions offer the possibility of a blended approach that still incorporates a physical campus.
But the idea of students cobbling together an entire degree from free Web courses, a prospect touted by some online-education evangelists, remains "kind of a silly nightmare, " said Edward Rock, director of open course initiatives at University of Pennsylvania.
It runs about 30 degree and post-graduate courses in agriculture, business, equine, food, land and property management and is planning to change its name to Royal Agricultural University.
With the availability of military training, courses, and online certificate and degree opportunities, Service members will design an individual education and career plan to guide their future, both during and after their term of duty.
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The National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education, also found that the total enrollment in distance learning courses across all post-secondary degree-granting institutions roughly doubled -- from 754, 000 to 1.6 million -- from 1995 to 1997-98.
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Online courses can be provided as part of regular degree programs or as discrete curriculum-independent products.
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While traditional MBA courses are open to graduates fresh from a bachelor degree course, EMBAs are not.
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