Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

he UK is a world leader when it comes to student retention – it came top in the latest OECD data (from 2014), with 71% of the country’s students completing their undergraduate courses, in contrast with 49% in the US and just 31% in Australia.

More than 130 universities across the UK have applied to take part in year two of the teaching excellence framework (TEF), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has revealed.

Of the 299 institutions overall that applied, 234 universities, colleges and alternative providers of higher education have the suitable metrics for a full TEF assessment, while 65 others that do not have opted in for a provisional TEF award.