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30 mars 2014

Why are Britain's universities still failing black and Asian students?

By Aaron Kiely. NUS data shows ethnic minority students continue to face academic, social, and financial barriers – along with overt racism. New figures show that white university students receive significantly higher degree grades than those from minority ethnic backgrounds with the same A-level qualifications. This suggests that higher education institutions are somehow failing black students, which should be a national embarrassment. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Academics Anonymous: international staff suffer raw deal from universities

International staff bring economic and reputational benefits to UK universities. Yet they suffer low pay and poor working conditions. I work for £6.18 an hour. Without an office or desk space, without sick days, a pension, overtime or family leave. With no guarantee of hours past April. Once you factor the hours I actually put in against the hours for which I am compensated, I earn less than minimum wage with minimal benefits and no job security. I have a PhD and three years of postdoctoral experience, and I am one of the rising number of professional academics who count themselves among the part-time, fixed-term, temporary, non-standard, atypical, unbundled, disaggregated, sub-, non-, irregular, adjunct, or otherwise contingent faculty. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Labour may cut students' tuition fees to £6,000 a year

By Patrick Wintour. Party's election manifesto will include commitment to scrap government's £9,000 fees but long-term policy still undecided. Labour's manifesto for next year's election will include a pledge to scrap the coalition's £9,000-a-year tuition fees and may replace it with a maximum of £6,000, Douglas Alexander has confirmed. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Concern as big business goes into the classroom to tackle recruitment crisis

By Jennifer Rankin. Since the coalition axed the Connexions careers advice service, big firms such as BAE Systems have stepped in to encourage children to take up engineering and science jobs. The chatter is rising as more than 100 girls wait for the show to begin. The 11- and 12-year-old pupils of St Marylebone CE School for girls in London are about to get a rather unusual physics lesson. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Almost £1bn in grants and taxpayer-backed loans to go to private colleges

By Andrew McGettigan and Shiv Malik. Government reveals 2,100% increase in sums funding private college students after policy was liberalised. Grants and taxpayer-backed student loans going to fund higher education at a handful of private colleges will balloon to £900m next year, the government has revealed. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Tuition fees blunder: 'there's no need for this spiralling public cost'

By Claire Shaw. From non-subsidised government loans to a graduate tax, three higher education professionals suggest how to move forward from the tuition fees debacle. There are two fundamental problems with the current university funding system that need fixing. One is the high subsidy on student loans, the other is that postgraduate students – those seeking to retrain or up-skill – do not have access to a loan to cover the cost of the upfront tuition fee. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Should sixth-form students do an extended project qualification?

By Jacob Montgomery. An EPQ can help your university application, but don't do it just because you can't think of anything else to do. I'm in year 13 and I recently completed and submitted my extended project qualification (EPQ). I studied conspiracy theories about the moon landings and gained skills like time management and critical thinking. But I'm not convinced that an EPQ was the best use of my time. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

PhD supervisor: the perfect one doesn't exist, so where else can you find help?

By Gwen Boyle. If you're struggling to get the support you need from your PhD supervisor, there are online communities that can help fill the gap, says Gwen Boyle. Supervisors are not superhuman.
Some give brilliant writing guidance, but are ineffectual when a student reveals that they are depressed. Others become best friends with their students, but never motivate them to put words on the page. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Students in North Korea reportedly required to get a Kim Jong-un haircut

By Abby Young-Powell and Libby Page. Reports suggest that male students in North Korea are now required to wear their hair like their leader – but is this true? Male students in North Korea are required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, according to reports from Radio Free Asia and the Korea Times. Read more...

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30 mars 2014

Studying a PhD: don't suffer in silence

By Alan Percy. Doing a PhD is one of the toughest tests anyone can face in academic life – here's how to cope with some of the challenges. Doing a PhD has always been seen as a long and lonely business since the early 19th century when the idea of the postgraduate research doctorate was first formally recognised at Humboldt University, Germany. It is probably the toughest test anyone can face in academic life. In the past, there was a very low completion rate of PhDs throughout the world. This meant a lot of wasted time, money, much personal heartache and psychological distress. Read more...

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