December 3, 2010 /
Yasmin Barracks
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
Students living in low income households may be deterred from entering further education due to recent cuts within the sector. The government’s decision to scrap the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) which currently provides financial support for over 600,000 students each year, will have a major impact on school leavers from poorer backgrounds. School leavers living…
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November 24, 2010 /
Deborah Gabriel
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
As someone who has already accrued debts from student loans at undergraduate level en route to my PhD studentship, I fully support the decision by students across the country to demonstrate against tuition fee increases. Thousands of students who paid undergraduate fees at the current level of £3290 leave university with debts of £25,000. So…
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October 28, 2010 /
Yasmin Barracks
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
“What is going to happen to all the students whose parents can’t afford to support their children to go to university? This is the question being asked by Grace Dorset, a single parent from North London, in response to the Government’s plan to raise tuition fees. The government’s proposal to remove the cap on tuition…
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September 29, 2010 /
Yasmin Barracks
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
Young men facing unemployment have been advised to ‘think outside the box’ and consider self-employment to avoid the dole queue. Recent Figures from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) reveal one in five males aged between 18 and 24 are currently unemployed. According to the Princes Trust, youth unemployment in the UK costs…
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July 29, 2010 /
Yasmin Barracks
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
Graduates, existing students and those who hope to attend university in the future are largely against the proposed graduate tax, higher tuition fees and two-year degrees, a new survey has revealed. People with Voices polled 20 graduates, existing students and those hoping to start a degree course in the future, and asked them whether they…
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June 14, 2010 /
newsdesk
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BUSINESS WORK & EDUCATION
Last year was the worst year for the newspaper industry with declining readership accelerating during the economic downturn, a new report by an economic think tank says.According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Brussels, only the US fared worse than the United Kingdom, with the downward development resulting in widespread…
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