…focused on admission to the top universities – were offering BTEC courses, compared with 82 per cent of non-selective state schools and colleges. Ms Curnock-Cook said she expected the take-up…
Payback Time for Graduates
…£9,000 a year, it said it was making hard choices. Students would have to repay higher fees as graduates because the Government could no longer afford to subsidise their teaching…
Lotteries ‘used more’ to decide on school places
…using banding increased from 95 in 2008 to 121 in the past academic year. On top of that, 42 schools were using lotteries – also known as random allocation. However,…
Is the new student loan system more progressive than its predecessor?
…increased the cap on undergraduate tuition fees for UK and EU students from £3,375 to £9,000 per year, while scrapping teaching grants paid by the government to universities for most…
Keeping up with the Schmidts
…David Cameron, the prime minister, calls a “Germanic approach”, they have increased by half the budget subsidising workplace training and introduced £1,500 ($2,500) grants for small businesses to take on…
Oxbridge uplift disguises a drop in the size of the average UK endowment
David Matthews reports for the Times Higher on the Sutton Trust endowments research. Average endowments at UK universities, excluding Oxford and Cambridge, have shrunk during the past decade, according to…