Tag Archives: students
Tuition fees: is this really all we are worth?
Injured police officers, bloodied teens, broken glass and that picture of Charles and Camilla are now all etched into our memories. The vote to treble tuition fees and scrap Educational Maintenance Allowance has passed, and a record nearly one million … Continue reading
Filed under The Independent
UK graduates look to new horizons
Little is disclosed about the number of UK students who go abroad to study for postgraduate degrees. It is a largely undocumented area that is overlooked and often miscalculated. Yet as graduates start to speculate over increased tuition fees, diminishing … Continue reading
Filed under The Independent, Uncategorized
Different pathways into the modern medical profession
James Norman, 29, gained an undergraduate degree, a Masters, and then worked in the City before deciding to become a doctor. Yet as medical graduates face the possibility of unemployment for the first time in the NHS training scheme’s history, … Continue reading
Filed under The Independent
Time to fill the data gap
It has been six months since a major Government review on postgraduate studies was published, and little has been done to fill what some officials describe as a “data vacuum” in the sector. Yet, with almost a quarter of students … Continue reading
Filed under The Independent
Behind the smokescreen
Nick Clegg told Britain that he wanted a “clean, open, plural politics that…you can put your faith in,” when he spoke at his first press conference at Number 10. While the footage streamed onto our screens might not have been … Continue reading
Filed under Bright Green Scotland, Uncategorized
Students forced out of education over childcare
THOUSANDS of students with young children face being forced out of higher education due to a lack of childcare funds. A Scottish Mail On Sunday investigation can reveal that the SNP is failing tens of thousands of student parents across … Continue reading
Filed under The Scottish Mail On Sunday, Uncategorized
