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28 juillet 2013

Students need to make time for love, as well as for sex

By Cristina Odone. We are nervously awaiting the 18-year-old’s A-level results. Not as nervously, however, as if he had chosen, as many of his friends have done, to try for an American university. The latest news from elite campuses across the Atlantic struck fear in our hearts: everyone is “hooking up” over there, and that’s bad. Hook-up culture is about sexual encounters that are rushed, unemotional and brief. It sounds depressingly familiar – “wham, bam, thank you ma’am”, we called it when I was an undergraduate – but what makes hook-up culture different is its raison d’être: students today are too busy for relationships. And, unlike the no-strings sex of yesteryear, women as well as men are choosing a hook-up over proper dating. The bleak new thinking was exposed in a New York Times investigation last week. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

UCAS: white teenagers 'less likely to apply to university'

By Graeme Paton. White schoolchildren are less likely to apply to university than classmates from any other ethnic group, according to research from the official admissions body. Fewer than three-in-10 white teenagers have lodged applications to start degree courses this autumn amid growing concerns over access to higher education, it emerged. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Graduate jobs: How to get a job with a 2.2

By Rozina Sabur. A competitive jobs market and the value placed on the ubiquitous ‘2:1’ can make ending up with a 2:2 seem a very difficult position. Graduate recruitment sites can make you feel sub-standard if you don’t possess the required grade for the employers they promote. There are, however, several routes open to graduates. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Rich pupils 'twice as likely to attend a top university'

By Agencies. Students from a wealthier background are more likely to go to one of the country's top universities than those from poorer families, official figures reveal. Richer pupils are twice as likely to go to one of the UK's top universities than those from the poorest homes, according to new figures. Teenagers who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) - a key measure of poverty - are also still slightly less likely to go to any university, or to go on to work or training, the data shows. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

University life: are students today 'hooking up'?

By Josie Gurney-Read. More students are "hooking up" for emotionally detached sex at university, according to a recent study. But even if this is happening, is it an issue asks Josie Gurney-Read. Students are too busy for relationships. This is the news from the New York Times, which last week published an investigation into relationships at the University of Pennsylvania. After interviewing 60 women at the university, the discussions revealed that students frequently used “hooking up” for quick and emotionally detached sexual gratification, with one interviewee admitting that she enjoyed late night, casual sex with her “hook up” on her own terms. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

More students turning to private colleges as fees rise

By Graeme Paton. Record numbers of students are taking higher education courses at private universities and colleges, despite concerns over low employment rates, research shows. A new Government analysis reveals that 160,000 students were enrolled at some 674 privately-funded institutions last year, far higher than previous estimates. In many cases, students are taking degree-level qualifications in subjects such as business, management, accountancy and IT or specialist arts courses in music, drama and dance. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Universities begin to unlock the potential of social enterprise

By Karl Belizaire. Higher education is at the forefront of innovation, so it is no surprise the profile of social enterprises is rising. Universities have always played an important role in their communities and have frequently been at the forefront of innovation and enterprise, so it's no wonder that social entrepreneurship is starting to emerge and thrive at them. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Race equality in academia: time to establish black studies in the UK?

By Deborah Gabriel. With just 85 black professors in the UK, Deborah Gabriel says we need a more diverse curriculum for real change. If the same vigour and commitment that drive gender equality in higher education were directed towards race equality then better progress could be made in addressing the institutionalised racism that pervades the higher education sector. While women now account for 44% of all academics within UK universities (2011/12 HESA Staff Record), the percentage of black academics (combining black Caribbean, black African and black other) stands at 1.6%. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Shared services: why is the higher education sector so late to the party?

By Martin Vincent, Vincent King and Andy Davies. The obstacles that have stalled more shared services in universities are now the justification for greater collaboration. There has been plenty of recent trumpeting of the benefits of shared services in higher education. Ian Diamond of the Universities UK efficiency and modernisation task force stated that "shared services could save millions" while Steve Butcher, head of procurement and shared services at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), was reported as predicting a "first wave" of shared services projects this summer. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Disadvantaged postgraduates: who are they and how can we help them?

By Tom Frostick. Policymakers need to identify which postgrads most need support, says Tom Frostick, who asks whether redirecting funding towards these students is a good way of going about it. The government has confirmed that funding allocated through the national scholarship programme (NSP) is to be "refocused" on disadvantaged postgraduates at the expense of disadvantaged undergraduates. Read more...

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