Disadvantaged Students Not Discouraged by High Tuition Fees
According to a study conducted by the Independent Commission on Fees, students from disadvantaged areas in England are not discouraged from applying to university this year. This is despite the increase of the tuition fee in 2012. Also, there is an improvement in the number of age 18 youths coming from poorer areas who have […]
Personal Statement Writing Tips From University Officials and School Heads
In writing their personal statement, everyone points out to their favourite A-level modules. But the formula for a successful writing consists of at least 50% to at most 75% explaining why you want to do the course you have chosen, according to Brunel University marketing manager for schools and colleges Amanda Hall. Demonstrating your motivation […]
Zero-Hours Contracts More Rampant in Universities than Other Work Settings
Zero-hours contracts have been controversial. They appear to have been overused in hiring employees in higher education. This employment arrangement enables employers to hire staff on an on-call set up where employees are paid on a no-work no-pay basis. Income is not guaranteed, employees are not able to get mortgages and there is no job […]
UK Universities Offer More Slots to Foreign Students than Locals
Foreign students enjoy more freedom in choosing degree courses than their British and European Union counterparts. This observation appears to be a form of discrimination because the former is charged higher tuition fees. But according to representatives of universities in the United Kingdom, they are carrying out the admission process in accordance with what government […]
University Degree Even More Valuable Amid the Recession
The university degree is still one best way to get the best jobs and foundation on which to build a rewarding career; the graduate jobs market is recovering after the recession; and employment rates are better measured three and a half years after graduation compared to six months after the same reckoning point. These are […]
Chevening Scholarship Applications Start 1 September 2013
Nigerians can pursue postgradaute education in the United Kingdom. The Chevening Scholarships is one of the ways. A total of more than 1,050 scholars from the African country have earned their higher academic qualification through the programme and are now in leadership positions in their careers and serving their motherland. Interested applicants can start sending […]
GCSE Grades Continue to Slide for Second Year
The recent GCSE exams where 600,000 youths in England, Wales and Northern Ireland sat in had results which continued the falling trend from last year. In the 25 years in which the exam had existed, this year’s had a record marginal fall in overall results. A* and A results are 22.4% in the total number […]
IGCSE Being Viewed as League Table Performance Booster
The number of schools offering International GCSEs have increased by almost 50% from last year with the updated count at 2,677. A series of huge increases in the number of schools providing IGCSEs can be observed in the last two years with a third this year. In 2010, the number of schools offering it is […]
Basic Skills are Lacking in School Leavers
Estimates made by business leaders peg at a minimum of 40% the percentage of employers who need to give their own remedial training in English, maths and computing to new hires because teenagers have been struggling to function in their jobs. Passing examinations have been given too much emphasis by schools to the point that […]
Scotland Forms Four New Super Colleges
Four super colleges have been created from the merging of 11 colleges. The government of Scotland have been merging colleges in the country to focus resources on students and save money. Mergers like these will result into £50m annual savings, says education secretary Michael Russell. The four new super institutions are Glasgow Clyde College, West […]
Survey Finds Apparent Discrepancy in Degree Standards
Large variations in student workloads between universities across subject areas were found in The Academic Experience of Students in English Universities: 2013 Report. Based on the analysis made by Times Higher Education on the report, there are huge differences in student workloads between and within university mission groups. THE computed and analysed data from the […]
Foreign Student Recruitment System is Cost-Inefficient; Huge Fees Should be Used in Improving Education
Commission payments given by universities to foreign student recruiters amounted to an estimated £120 million every year based on a study conducted by Uni-Pay and Centurus. Amidst the high recruitment fees universities are giving to agents, the system being used by universities in recruiting overseas students are inefficient and largely wasteful. Uni-Pay managing director Simon […]
Establishment of Black Studies to Address UK Academia Racial Gap
There are 18,510 academics in the UK. Only 85 of them are black. That is how underrepresented the Black race is in UK academia. While in the US, each field of discipline has hundreds of dedicated journals for black studies; in the UK, there is only Black Theology. Black British Academics founder and University of […]
Private School Enrollment Increases
Even with the worries of being less competitive in the labour market than their public university counterparts in the future, more and more students have taken the private school route in their pursuit of higher education, findings from a study conducted by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills indicate. The number of students who […]
Research in Universities: 2004 Scotland Trust Excavation Possible Oldest Calendar; 14th Century Manuscript Found After 50 Years in Library
Hunter gatherer societies in Aberdeenshire could have used the oldest calendar as early as 10,000 years ago. They had the need for a device to tell time of the year and also make corrections for seasonal drift of the lunar year. These primitive people already have the sophistication to do so, says University of Birmingham […]
Foreign Student Count Limit Proposed by Conservative MPs
The foreign student enrolment is being proposed by some conservative members of parliament to be given a cap. Universities in the UK will be ranked and the cap will be imposed on those which will not make it to the top 30, the MPs say in their proposal. The impact of international students on housing […]
University Applications Recovering
Students applying to university have increased by 19,000 since last year. The increase, which amounts to a shade over three per cent, is an improvement as it saw a decline of more than 50,000 in 2012 during which tuition fees tripled and reached the £9,000 level, according to Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures. The […]
Government to Give A-level Status to Tech-Levels
Starting 2014, technical courses for students ages 16 to 19 will be considered equal to A-levels if they get support from universities or businesses. The aim of the government in establishing the Tech-level qualification is to raise the status of vocational qualifications in England. The government aims to raise the level of vocational qualifications with […]
Gap Between Rich and Poor Felt in Campus
Most students who are working and some of those who come from poorer and working class backgrounds have the tendency to skip some university activities because of financial difficulties. In a greater scope, they are not able fully participate in the student life. These are what results of a study by Bristol University and the […]
One in Every Three Jobs Taken by Graduates are Non-Professional; Statistics Confirm Degree Still One Best Way to Employment
A recent Statistical First Release from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that in 2011-12, more than one third of new graduates working in the UK took on non-professional jobs within six months after graduation. But for universtiy think tank million+ chairman Prof Michael Gunn, the numbers indicate that studying for a degree, both full-time […]
