The Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Online Learning Task Force has used the University of Leicester as a case study for the implementation of a strategy for e-learning, and highlighted our 20 successful years of distance learning provision.

The HEFCE report Collaborate to Compete calls on universities to work together to find ways of offering students more flexible ways of studying, or risk losing ground to overseas or private institutions.

The report argues that more investment in online and distance learning by universities is needed and institutions should now be looking to form collaborations with successful providers.

For more analysis of the report, see the expanded online feature on our Press Office website.

• University Press Release
• HEFCE
• Distance Learning at the University of Leicester