By Javier Espinoza. English graduates are facing the highest debt levels in the English-speaking world, higher than the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, according to new research. Read more...
The Complete University Guide has revealed the universities with the highest standards of entry for 2017. The data was collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, and is based on the average UCAS tariff score of new undergraduate students from 2014-2015. Read more...
By Matthew Scott. Oxford University law students have asked to be protected from distressing material that may crop up in their studies of the criminal law. Lecturers have been told that they must issue “trigger warnings” before lecturing on subjects that may – it is claimed – lead vulnerable students into depressive episodes or even suicide. Read more...
While Cambridge and Oxford continue to dominate the top two places on the Complete University Guide’s (CUG) league table for overall best university and difficulty of entry, they have been out performed on graduate prospects. Read more...
By Nick Hillman. The numbers are stark. Four-fifths of the UK’s higher education institutions have more female than male students, as do two-thirds of the 180 subject areas on offer at university. Read more...
By Javier Espinoza. Universities should introduce ‘targets’ for the recruitment of boys, a new report has said, as it revealed girls born today are 75 per cent more likely to go to study for a degree. Read more...
By Matthew Waterton. It is fair to say that today’s society has progressed significantly with regards to gender equality. Sexism is widely and correctly regarded as derogatory and has no reason to exist in the workplace or anywhere for that matter. Read more...
By Jemima Lewis. Sometimes the elephant in the room is so huge that no one else can squeeze in, and the conversation has to take place elsewhere. So it is, I can’t help feeling, with the problem of Britain’s underachieving boys. Read more...