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…
This week Oxford dons passed a vote of no confidence in higher education minister David Willetts for the first time in history and The Public Accounts Committee rebuked the coalition for its staggering miscalculation over tuition fees that will leave a massive funding gap. It’s hardly surprising that the UCU has accused the coalition of…
Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: ‘Everyone has the right to Education’ and ‘Higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.’ At London Metropolitan University, where Vice Chancellor Michael Gillies plans to summarily close 70 per cent of its courses, these rights are being grossly violated….
The row that has arisen over David Cameron’s comment about one black student at Oxbridge has not only buried the real problem of student diversity within elite higher education (HE) institutions – it also masks the fact that the Coalition’s HE policy will lead to fewer black students at Oxbridge. In the first instance, Oxford…
“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…