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29 août 2015

Now universities can accept as many students as they want, will there be a free-for-all in clearing?

By Peter Scott. Another university admissions cycle is reaching its climax with A-level results envelopes opening, university places confirmed and the clearing process for those who did better or worse than they’d hoped kicking into action. Amid all this, the government is having a third go at creating a real market in higher education. More...

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29 août 2015

Why students should disclose their autism before starting university

By Mark Brosnan. When a new university term starts this year so will many students who have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In the 1990s there was a surge of highly able young people diagnosed with ASD and today they are approaching university age. The number of students with ASD attending university is also increasing; in 2003-04 it was estimated to be 1.8% of the total student body and by 2007-08 this had risen to 2.4%. More...

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29 août 2015

Are non-graduate jobs ‘upgrading’ to give the graduates who do them more autonomy?

By Craig Holmes, Charoula Tzanakou, Daria Luchinskaya and Ken Mayhew. In an ideal world, everyone investing in their skills through education and training would enter the labour market and find a job which took full advantage of those skills. Concerns that this has not been the case for successive cohorts of university graduates are long-standing, particularly in the UK following the rapid expansion of the higher education sector in the early 1990s. However, there is wide disagreement about the extent of the problem, or how much it has changed over the past couple of decades. More...

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29 août 2015

Are attitudes changing to the 1.4m people in the UK with a learning disability?

By Katrina Scior. If you are among the approximately 1.4m children and adults in the UK born with a learning disability, it’s likely that through no fault of your own you will experience a number of injustices in your life. More...

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29 août 2015

How young Greeks changed their degree choices as the economy crashed

By Rigissa Megalokonomou. The Greek financial crisis has been one of the most severe in the developed world since 1929. Its effects on education have been real and biting. Public spending on education in Greece has been reduced by 40% and more than 100 schools have been closed since 2009 as well as some universities. More...

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29 août 2015

Universities remain a hive of inequality – they must do more to attract the excluded

By Bill Rammell. The higher education sector in England has gone through some major changes in recent years, from the 2012 rise in tuition fees to £9,000 a year to the more recent decision to allow universities to accept as many students as they want. Constant policy shifts have kept universities on the move. More...

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29 août 2015

Should universities have to pay back unpaid student debts?

By Geoff Sharrock. At a recent ANU forum on higher education financing, economist Lorraine Deardon said that since UK universities were allowed to treble their fees in 2012, more than 60% of UK students may never repay their loans. She suggested that with income-contingent loans, allowing universities to set their own fees should entail some “risk sharing” between governments and universities. More...

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29 août 2015

Moving beyond the educational blame game in South Africa

By Alan Cliff. Most of the young people who matriculate in South Africa and qualify on paper to apply to study further simply aren’t ready for the rigours of a university education. This isn’t a sweeping generalisation: it’s proved by data collected over five years as part of the country’s National Benchmark Test in Academic Literacy. More...

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29 août 2015

Students' experiences show it’s time to rethink ideas of university “readiness”

By Merridy Wilson-Strydom. When universities are trying to establish whether an applicant is “ready” for the demands of higher education, they focus almost exclusively on previous academic achievement. More...

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29 août 2015

Should Shakespeare be taught in Africa’s classrooms?

By Chris Thurman. Should William Shakespeare be taught in Africa’s schools and universities? It’s a question that emerges, sometimes flippantly and sometimes in earnest, when conversations about post-coloniality and decolonisation turn to literature and culture. More...

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