…to help pay my way. I work in the finance office and earn £144 a week for 12 hours. I think British universities should bring this kind of system in.”…
Making a Statement
…is to show academic potential. Your statement is likely to be read by an academic or a trained admissions officer. They will be subject specialists whose priority is to offer…
Coding + Creativity = Careers?
…programming languages to solve computational problems; to design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems; and how instructions are stored…
Breaking the mould, not the bank
…common sense and initiative, being commercially aware – that are indispensable in many jobs. The offer to these students is growing. My colleague, Conor Ryan, has blogged previously on how…
If you want to improve social mobility, dish out new genes
Sir John Major left office less than 17 years ago, but already he seems some rare relic of a long-lost meritocratic age. The impoverished young Major left grammar school at…
Report plays down bursaries effect
…drop out is their previous exam results, the study adds. The research, published by the Office For Fair Access (OFFA), analysed data on young, full-time first degree students who were…