As the Telegraph reveals how Cambridge University representatives met with daughter of Chinese prime minister to win donation university officials later claimed had “no link” to Chinese government, we look back at how events have unfolded.
October 2014 - Telegraph reveals that Cambridge met directly with Wen Ruchun to discuss the donation. Read more...
12 octobre 2014
Cambridge University ties to China government-linked donation: timeline
'University fees don't need to be raised'
By Boarding School Beak. Prof AC Grayling says top universities should be charging £18,000 a year; no wonder students are complaining about value for money, says Boarding School Beak. Read more...
A different style of student life
By Hugo Stevensen. While one-to-one university tutorials aren't for everyone, Hugo Stevensen says they are one of the reasons he chose the American-style Liberal Arts education at NCH. Read more...
Prof AC Grayling: tuition fees should rise to plug university funding shortfall
By Josie Gurney-Read. The master of New College of the Humanities says it costs elite universities £18k to educate undergraduates and institutions should be able to "cover their costs". Labour’s pledge to cut university tuition fees would make it hard for elite universities to stay in the public higher education system, a leading academic has warned. Read more...
Vince Cable: some private universities 'a lot of dross'
By Graeme Paton. Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, admits an expansion in the number of private universities risks eroding higher education standards and fuelling immigration abuse. Read more...
University fees deregulation: vice-chancellor disputes competition claims
By Daniel Hurst. University of Canberra’s Stephen Parker warns trying to cut fees to compete would send message courses were of inferior quality. Universities that tried to cut their fees to compete with a nearby institution would send a signal that their courses were of lesser quality, a vice-chancellor has warned. More...
Half of black college students graduate with more than $25,000 in student loan debt
By Jana Kasperkevic. “Are you listening to me?” Michelle Obama, who is used to handling teenagers at home, asked a crowd of high schoolers in Atlanta on 9 September. The crowd at Booker T Washington high school seemed restless and the First Lady had an important message to deliver: Do not drop out of school. Go to college. Get out of poverty. Giving up on education is not an option. More...
Germany is scrapping tuition fees – why can’t England?
By Deborah Hermanns. In Germany, fees were a brief experiment overthrown by popular protest. British students should start a mass campaign for free education. Last week, as the Conservative party conference got under way, Lower Saxony announced the scrapping of tuition fees, making Germany fully tuition-fee free. More...
How much will university really cost?
By Lucy Hodges. Getting a degree is expensive, so it’s important to know how you can cut costs and where to find help. Concerns about student debt are normal, but how much will university really cost?
How much you pay back for your higher education depends on how much you are earning after you leave university. More...
Sophie Heawood: education? All students ever hear is money, money, money
By Sophie Heawood. What happens to young people’s brains when you tell them that education is a business, and that nothing comes for free’. I have never experienced such a rush of loving emotion towards Lower Saxony in all my life. The last German region to charge university tuition fees has just scrapped them. This makes university education, across their entire country, free. More...
