Higher Education Network | The Guardian
Cutting degrees to pay for more apprenticeships is plain barmy – just look at the facts and ask yourself who this is aimed atOnce upon a time, elections used to be all about kissing babies. But for parents of teenagers, this one has felt more like a smack in the teeth. Last weekend, our children were threatened with compulsory national service, for...
High Commission to meet leaders at university after currency crash in home country meant students couldn’t pay for tuitionDelegates from the Nigerian high commission in London are to meet bosses from Teesside University to discuss the treatment of a group of students who were ordered to leave the UK after failing to meet tuition repayments.The Nigerian...
Tory policy would be funded by scrapping courses with high drop-out rates and low job progressionRishi Sunak has promised to create 100,000 high-skilled apprenticeships a year by scrapping “rip-off degrees” if he wins the general election.In the latest of a flurry of announcements as the Conservatives try to narrow Labour’s 20-point poll lead, the party...
The result has been an increase in fixed costs to pay for vast building programmes and administrative overheads, writes Norman GowarZoe Williams’ article (A generation of students is being ripped off – and our blood should be boiling, 20 May) shows that what is happening in our universities was entirely predictable following the government’s misguided...
About half the students who got in touch skip lectures, with many ‘disappointed’ with the experience and others forced to prioritise paid workFrances, 19, from Newcastle, had been looking forward to starting a design degree at the university of Northumbria last autumn.By the end of her first semester, however, she had major doubts about having made...
Small campaign pledges risk inhibiting Labour’s ability, if elected, to improve people’s livesSir Keir Starmer was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last Friday whether, if he achieved his goal for the UK to attain the highest sustained growth in the G7, he would readopt plans to scrap university tuition fees. He had committed to their abolition...
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