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  • Student News & Tips | 2015 to 2017
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    Student Tips & News In a hurry? You can catch the Student News here and if you need more just follow the link... You can also find some really useful tips for students here too.  Read the Student News Archive. 

  • Should UK universities be treated like a football league?
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    Should UK universities be treated like a football league?Educationalist Peter Scott says that Higher Education, with the compulsive need to be always near the top of the table, is not like the Premier league, but "...treating higher education as if it were a game, corrupts. A good “student experience”, now an obligatory phrase, is not increased or diminished simply because it is ranked higher or lower in some crazy table. The real value of science and scholarship cannot be measured by whether those who undertake the underlying research have had lots of external grants (the bigger the better) or get published in highly cited journals or by top-flight university presses.

    Peter Scott is professor of higher education studies at the UCL Institute of Education and currently ranked 11th best UK university.

    See how the Guardian ranks your university now... 

  • Four UK Universities make World Top Six | 170914
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    Imperial College and Cambridge University are ranked joint second best Uinversity in the World with University College London and Oxford UCL sharing fifth place... You can find the 2014 World University rankings here... 

  • Student Gatwick bomb hoax | 160914
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    A student falsely claimed that explosives were on a Gatwick flight to Turkey. The bomb hoax delayed the flight for several hours... 

  • Genetics key to educational performance says Government adviser | 11 Oct 2013
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    Education Secretary Michael Gove's special adviser Dominic Cummings maintains that educational performance is based mainly on the quality of a child's genes and their IQ rather than teaching skills...
  • Teacher bullied student until he attempted suicide | 7th Sep 2013
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    According to legal papers the: "...bullying continued on a daily basis for an extended period of time and led to the boy attempting suicide...
  • Alan Bennett speaks up for London student 'grants' 11th Aug 2013
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    'I believe education at every level should be free. I came to this view at the age of 17 and have never found any reason to alter it,' says Alan Bennett.
  • Overseas student numbers crash 22% | 30th May 2013
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    Vince Cable, the UK Coalition Government's Business Secretary said: "I just want to make absolutely clear, as far as the government is concerned we have no cap on the number of overseas students, we don't propose to introduce one." New figures show that in 2012 190,000 people arrived in Britain to study in the UK. In 2011 overseas students were 246,000.

  • Friendless Gove forced to scrap plans for Euro-style Baccalaureate | 7th Feb 2013
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    Education Secretary, Michael Gove has been forced by MPs to scrap his flagship policy to replace GCSEs with a European- Style English Baccalaureate certificate (EBC).
  • Does getting university status matter?
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    With the Coalition government making it easier than ever for small institutions to become a university Andy Westwood at GuildHE explains why being a university matters
  • Will Labour reverse Coalition education reforms? | 14th Jan 2013
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    Labour's education policy in a sentence: "The key to good education, whatever the sign outside the school says, is the quality of teaching and leadership inside it and, therefore, we shall focus on how we can raise the status of the teaching profession." Shadow Education Secretary, Stephen Twigg
  • LSE slams BBC over North Korea
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    "We have colleagues working in some of the most dangerous parts of the world. What worries me is that if you are a bona fide researcher from the LSE, you now face the risk of not being trusted, or of harbouring journalists." London School of Economics
  • UK coalition celebrates Olympics by selling-off school playing fields | 7th Aug 2012
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    Education Secretary Michael Gove has given the go ahead for the sale of 21 school playing fields
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  • NVQ's degraded by UK Coalition | 31st Jan 2012
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    Tens of Thousands of UK students achieving work-based National Vocational Qualifications such as Law, Accountancy and Bricklaying will no longer be able to be used in school league tables...
  • Lib-Dem deputy wants £3000 scholarships for poor | 21st July 2011
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    Deputy leader of the liberal democrats, Simon Hughes, says 10,000 university scholarships worth £3,000 per annum should be paid to the poorest teenagers.
  • Freshers fun in the UK | 19th Sep 2011
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    Freshers week starts today so here's a list of what's going on around the country.

  • The 2012 Guardian University Guide | 17th Jan 2012
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    Low ranking universities are “almost as likely” to charge the maximum tuition fees allowed by the government.
  • Labour to cut tuition fees by £3000 per year | 26th Sep 2011
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    Ed Miliband the Labour Party leader told the party conference in Liverpool, that he plans to cut tuition by £3000 per year.
  • Tuition Fees: What universities are charging in 2012 | 4 May 2012
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    The Tuition Fees Database has been updated

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