As control of education in the UK is devolved, Mr Gove's plans are for England only.
It showed that public and private spending on higher education in the UK is 1.3% of GDP - below the OECD average of 1.5%.
"We hope that our new partnership with Google will be a significant moment in the development of computing education in the UK, " said Mr Upton.
Lord Wallace said that it might be time for "those responsible for higher education in the UK to get around a table" to discuss the issues.
The report shows that even though funding for higher education in the UK is above the average for the European Union, the amount per student has fallen.
Last week I wrote in this space that the future facing higher education in the UK poses some pressing challenges, including adjusting to a financial model more dependent upon tuition revenues.
Some children entering the education system in the UK do not even know their own name, according to one head teacher.
The funding body is due to contact higher education institutions in the UK, some of which already have online study facilities, asking them for feedback on the plans.
The Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK (Hero) site is the official portal to higher education, with a clickable map and profiles of all universities and higher education colleges.
The college claims to offer a "new model of higher education for the humanities in the UK".
It is true that the proportion of 15-19-year-olds who remain in education sees the UK at the bottom of the league table.
The Equality Challenge Unit was set up in 2001 to support the higher education sector by improving equal opportunities for all who work or seek to work in the UK higher education sector.
Then if you add in the value of all of the tax, the benefits paid out, then add in again all of the government services (in the UK including health as well as education, defence and so on) the actual gap in consumption possibilities falls to about 6 to 1.
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The school at Two Boats has an enthusiastic, experienced new headmaster, but there is no longer a fund to provide for the sixth-form education of its most promising students in the UK (the island's school only goes up to Britain's GCSE level, and thus to the age of about 16).
At the launch education minister Ivan Lewis said millions of adults in the UK did not have the skills of an average 11 year old.
Much more significant than speculation about a hypothetical decline in foreign demand for UK higher education are the indications of actual decline in domestic demand for more education.
As education is a devolved matter in the UK, policies on school sport vary across the nations.
Today he'll be joined by Google's lead engineer in the UK and Microsoft's UK education head in calling for a new approach.
But it is also found that in the period assessed, the UK had the highest rates of young people not in education, employment, or training, affecting 10% of 15 to 19-year-olds.
The changes in England's examinations mark a widening divide between education systems within the UK - with Wales and Northern Ireland so far not following the changes proposed in England.
The TUC says the region has the poorest literacy and numeracy in the UK and the lowest rate of post-16s staying on in education.
At the same conference, in which representatives of the education systems in the United States and the United Kingdom were meeting in Washington, the UK's School Standards Minister, Estelle Morris, said that there were 530 schools which were not improving their GCSE results quickly enough.
Department for Education and Skills figures show that in the UK in 2001 there were 27, 400 male and 141, 000 female primary school teachers.
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The International Year of Biodiversity competition was judged by Diana Garnham (Chief Executive, the Science Council), Felix Pepler (Creative Education Consultant) and Leo Vincent (UNESCO Associated Schools in the UK).
All students from outside the EU wishing to study in the UK need to have their visa application sponsored by education establishments which are licensed by the government.
Ucas said the overall decrease of 17, 184 applications to UK higher education courses this autumn should be seen in the context of the record increase of 8.2% last year.
Now living in Finland, he is currently advising the Mothers at Home lobby group in the UK, where the government has promised to expand free early education to give more parents the choice of returning to work.
The decision to strip the university of its permission to recruit foreign students prompted an outcry from the higher education sector and concerns that foreign students would be put off applying for universities in the UK. It was the first time a UK university had lost its licence in this way.
The pursuit of overseas students has become big business - with UK universities competing with higher education institutions in countries such as the United States and Australia.
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Meanwhile, the government has set up a new unit to encourage countries, including India and those in the Middle East, to use services linked to the UK's education system.
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