The government is freezing all student grants and loans and cutting financial support for trainee teachers as a result of the recession, it announced today.
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Women are outperforming men at university according to research by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI).
The study shows that female students of all ages and social and ethnic groups now outstrip male undergraduates in almost every subject including law and medicine. They are also more likely to go to leading universities and achieve better grades.
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A court has ruled that schoolchildren may rate their teachers online, rejecting the case of a woman who argued that her rights had been infringed by pupils who gave her bad grades on a popular website.
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Graduation is an exciting time in your life, and like most exciting times, it’s bound to be accompanied by a fair amount of awkward moments. While it’s sure to be an unpredictable few days, we can absolutely guarantee that a few things will definitely happen:
1. One of Your Relatives Will Say Something Racist, Then Make an Apology That’s Even More Racist
A music video describing the life of a medical student Funny Video.
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Walking into a crowded student union bar can Bea daunting experience for a Chinese student, coming from a culture where bars are not necessarily socially acceptable.
Although China’s changing and becoming more westernized, life’s much more tightly structured and the influence of peer group sand the authorities is strong.
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Poetry scandal! Scarlet woman Padel versus sex-pest Nobel man! Disgraced professor resigns! Oh, calm down chaps. Unpick what actually happened over the Oxford poetry professorship, and only then decide who is the most disgusting. In brief: Derek Walcott left the contest in dudgeon after a (still anonymous) mailshot and a minxy article digging up sexual harassment accusations more than two decades ago. It was all on Wikipedia anyway. Ruth Padel, the other strong contender, denies being behind this.
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SOME of the country’s most academic schools are discouraging pupils from applying to popular courses at Durham University in protest at what they see as an admissions system “fixed” against them.
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Many people look back on their time at university as the best days of their life, but a surprising number would take a different degree if they could choose again.
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BRITAIN’S worst-taught degree courses, including some at the country’s top universities, have been revealed by research into students’ attitudes.
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