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4 août 2014

Six reasons to stop panicking about what you'll do after university

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...

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4 août 2014

Education should be about progress, not prostituted as a means to earn 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...

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4 août 2014

Student loans debt: should universities share some of the risk? – poll

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...

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4 août 2014

Australia's top eight universities push for higher fees, fewer students

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...

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4 août 2014

How do we get graduates who move abroad to pay back their student loan?

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...

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4 août 2014

The end for Ulu

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...

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4 août 2014

Why advertise research jobs if you've already picked your winner?

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...

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4 août 2014

My languages guilt: am I making the most of my degree?

By Sarah Johnson. The government complains about a modern languages skills gap, but graduates often find they have to retrain to get a job. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Applying to uni: a guide for students with disabilities

By Rebecca Ratcliffe. All universities are set up for students with disabilities, but try to visit the one you choose to see for yourself. Come A-level results day, some students will find their results are not what they expected, and they can no longer take up the university place they planned. Thousands will find a new place through the Ucas Clearing system – some 57,000 students did so last summer. Read more...

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3 août 2014

Ideology: the enemy of a sane funding system

By Bahram Bekhradnia. We must return to first principles to develop a fair method of paying for higher education, argues Bahram Bekhradnia. David Willetts did much while he was minister for universities and science, but one thing he did not manage was to create a sustainable basis for funding higher education. More...

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