Tuition fees set to rise again under new proposals
The NUS has called it the “latest in a long line of disappointing revelations”.
The NUS has called it the “latest in a long line of disappointing revelations”.
The challenge the government is to find out what can be done at a policy level to ensure people can improve their prospects for upwards earnings mobility.
Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton reports on how the coalition’s higher education market ended up inflating prices and introduced pressures to increase government debt.
The Government’s ‘Access Tsar’ Simon Hughes has launched a broadside against tutors interviewing candidates as part of a university admissions process.
A poll has revealed almost half of teenagers are put off by the coalition’s £9,000-a-year tuition fees – despite the previous reassurances from government.
David Barclay, president of the Oxford University Student Union, says David Willetts’s plans are rotten to the core, and will teach students the price of everything and value of nothing.
Why is it that Conservatives have such a problem with gender equality and women’s issues? The last two months alone have featured a litany of misteps by Tories.
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, warns against David Willetts’s plans to allow the rich to buy their way into the best universities.
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt discusses the worrying record of for-profit universities and the even more worrying prospect of David Willetts’ helping them expand in the UK.
David Willetts’s soundbite that ‘feminism trumped egalitarianism’ is refuted by Declan Gaffney, with analysis showing how both work together for social mobility.