By Telegraph View. The former universities minister deserves credit for trying to find a solution to the burden of unpaid student debt. Student loans were intended to shift the burden of payment away from the taxpayer and on to the individual student. Read more...
By Josie Gurney-Read. Under a new plan being considered by ministers and officials, higher education institutions could buy student debt on graduation. Higher education institutions could be given the ability to buy student debt on graduation, under a new policy being considered by ministers and officials, according to BBC Newsnight. Read more...
By Theo Merz. Crowdfunded degrees mean further education could soon become the preserve of those who are loudly able to sell themselves rather than the quietly academic, writes Theo Merz.
Say you were offered a place on the Master’s course of your dreams, but couldn’t afford the £26,000 course costs. From there, you would have a choice: delay your studies for years and work to scrape the money together, or find a group of willing people to donate, which would allow you to start the Master’s immediately.
It was a choice outlined for us yesterday by Emily-Rose Eastop, the Oxford graduate who was accused of being “a posh brat” after setting up a crowdfunding campaign to cover her fees for an MA (again at Oxford) in cognitive and evolutionary anthropology. Read more...
By Sophie Grubb. Final-year students and recent graduates should spend less time worrying about the future and realise they're not alone. With graduation looming and inspiration yet to strike about your future plans, it's easy to get stuck in a cycle of despair. All of your friends are starting fancy grad schemes or llama-herding in Peru, while the only thing you've got lined up is a Breaking Bad marathon and scheduled panic attacks about the dwindling graduate jobs market. Read more...By Alex Andreou. Universities being allowed to buy graduates’ student loans is another blow to society’s collective forward motion. Proposals have been drawn up to allow universities to buy a graduate’s student loans. The idea is the brainchild of former universities minister David Willetts, who was recently shuffled out of his position, and it seems to be gaining traction. Read more...By Claire Shaw. David Willetts says universities could benefit from buying up their students' debts. Is this a good move for the sector? Have your say below. Universities could benefit from buying up their students' debts, David Willetts, the former universities and science minister, has said. Read more...By Daniel Hurst. Group of Eight vice chancellor describes deregulation as ‘holy grail’ for universities. Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight (Go8) universities are likely to reduce the number of people they enrol while increasing fees for each student after deregulation, a key backer of the reforms has predicted. Read more...By Nick Hillman. Australia and the UK both struggle to recoup student loan repayments from graduates who've moved abroad. Nick Hillman says we need a stricter approach. The Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) is running a year-long comparison of the Australian and English university systems. The objective is to reveal some lessons for public policy. Read more...By Michael Chessum ULU president 2012-14. At midnight on Thursday, the University of London Union ceased to exist. It was the largest students’ union in Europe, representing 120,000 students from across London, and was a major centre of student life in the capital – playing a pivotal role in campaigns and activism, and publishing probably the world’s biggest student newspaper, London Student. Read more...By Anonymous academic. There's no point in advertising a research job if a good internal candidate has already been lined up, says our anonymous academic. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
