21 décembre 2017

What do universities look for in a personal statement?

The Guardian homeYour Ucas personal statement is one of the main ways universities will assess your application. It needs to be based what you’re good at, why you’re good at it, and how that makes you an ideal candidate for the course. More...

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One rule on immigration for Dover and another for the Irish border?

The Guardian homeEndless excuses and stalling are damaging the prospects of an acceptable trade deal. More...

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Giulio Regeni’s supervisor must not be blamed for his murder

The Guardian homeWe reject the malicious and unfounded allegations made against Dr Maha Abdelrahman in Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper on 2 November 2017. Dr Abdelrahman is an internationally renowned scholar at Cambridge University. She supervised Giulio Regeni, an Italian PhD student researching Egyptian independent trade unions, who was abducted, brutally tortured and murdered in Cairo in early 2016. More...

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Fears grow over EU university funding as grants decline even before Brexit

The Guardian homeBritain’s universities are already seeing a fall in their share of a crucial pot of European Union funding, with vice-chancellors fearing that UK projects are losing out even before Brexit has taken place. More...

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Sneering at miners reflects a deeper malaise in our universities

The Guardian homeAs a graduate of Durham, I know cultural elitism is rampant on campus, where largely overprivileged students face few challenges to their world view. More...

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Southampton says post-Brexit strategy justifies vice-chancellor's £433,000 pay

The Guardian homeUniversity in firing line as row grows over rising executive pay after resignation of Bath’s vice-chancellor. More...

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As a young academic, I was repeatedly sexually harassed at conferences

The Guardian homeEarly in my career, older men I looked up to took advantage of their power to make sexual advances. But I never talked about it, so nobody ever knew. More...

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Bath students and staff protest over vice-chancellor's exit package

The Guardian homeHundreds of angry Bath students and staff have gathered to protest against the generous pay and exit package awarded to the university's departing vice-chancellor, Glynis Breakwell. More...

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Universities need to shift power and money from top to bottom

The Guardian home64 female staff at the University of Bath on the controversy about their vice-chancellor’s pay; Dr Adam Ozanne of the University of Manchester on holding senior staff to account; and more points on higher education from Dave Hunter, Alan Knight, Colin Hulley and Dr David Skidmore. More...

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Charities are asking interns to work 252 hours unpaid. That's a scandal

The Guardian homeInternships are not volunteering opportunities and charities do not have a universal right to unpaid talent. There are many more moral solutions. More...

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