More students could be sent to specialist schools to learn a trade under Coalition plans for a radical overhaul of vocational education.

Traditional university courses could become the preserve of an elite as growing numbers of students take on-line degrees, according to a report.

Universities will be forced to recruit more foreign students unless the Coalition increases the cap on tuition fees, ministers have been warned.

Thousands of students would be driven out of university by £7,000-a-year tuition fees, research suggests.

Cambridge has been named the best university in the world in an international league table.