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2. Funding
• The vast majority of United Kingdom universities are government financed, with only one private university--the University of Buckingham, where the government does not subsidize the tuition fees.
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Higher education
—undergraduate study
➢ A bachelor degree (BA, BSc, etc) can be obtained by a minimum of three year’s study at one of the more than 200 universities or institutions of higher education in the UK offering degree courses.
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• There are about 40,000 full time university teachers paid wholly from university funds. About 1 in 6 of all university teachers are professors.
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• British higher education has become a mass system, enrolling about a third of the age group. Approximately 1.8million students currently are in the higher education system. There are 114 university institutions (and 60 higher education colleges) in the UK, counting separately the constituent colleges of the federal universities of Wales and London. In addition, higher education programs are offered in many further education colleges.