I was not the brightest pupil in secondary school. I always got E and F grades in my assignments. At the time it felt as though the tutors only cared about those who were going to boost their ratings, and that did not include me. A careers advisor once told me to drop my ambition…
“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…
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…
Changing Lives is a refreshing deviation from the many books that go through the technical and practical aspects of embarking on a PhD. As I prepare to start my own doctoral study in three months time, I was interested to read a book that allows you to share the stories of six women who took…