Tag Archives: higher education

London Met matters

By Jill Rutter | Published: September 19, 2012

Jill Rutter writes on migration issues and from 2001-2006 was a senior lecturer in education at London Metropolitan University On Friday 21st September lawyers representing London Metropolitan University will challenge the decision of the UK Border Agency to revoke its Highly Trusted Sponsor. This decision prevented it from recruiting students from outside the European Union [...]

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Putting an individual through university generates £227k for the economy

By Sally Hunt | Published: June 9, 2012

The government needs to recognise the economic returns from investing in A-levels and degree courses, writes UCU general secretary Sally Hunt.

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Subject choice plummets across the UK as the government fails universities

By Sally Hunt | Published: February 23, 2012

Sally Hunt shows the extent to which subject choice has shrunk in the UK as a result of government policy and rhetoric on HE.

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The shocking effect of Gove’s EMA axe: Youngsters skipping food to get to college

By Sally Hunt | Published: February 7, 2012

Young people are having to choose whether to eat or travel to college thanks to the government’s “disastrous” decision to axe education maintenance allowance.

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University applications down nine per cent, more for mature students

By Sally Hunt | Published: January 30, 2012

Sally Hunt examines UCAS’s latest round of figures for university applications, and asks what they mean for the future of British higher education

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Coalition should heed Obama’s advice on higher education – not slash teaching grants

By Sally Hunt | Published: January 25, 2012

In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made a strong defence of the importance of higher education, writes Sally Hunt.

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Will 2012 see the first university bankruptcy?

By Alex Hern | Published: January 8, 2012

Alex Hern looks ahead to 2012 and what the year holds for students in Britain.

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Government funding of university research at lowest proportion since 1900s

By Sally Hunt | Published: January 5, 2012

Annual public spending on university teaching and research in England will fall to its lowest proportion in over a century.

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For-profit universities have failed in the US, so why import them here?

By Sally Hunt | Published: December 7, 2011

Sally Hunt argues that the experience of the USA in its experiment with for-profit universities shows the danger of importing that model to the UK

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A small mercy for the marching students of tomorrow

By Guest | Published: November 9, 2011

As thousands of students march on London, Laura McInerney reports on the positives and negatives of the UCAS consultation document, which provides a glimmer of hope.

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