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Universities urged to allow for Covid impact on poorer students’ A-levels
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Universities are being urged to give disadvantaged students who narrowly miss their required A-level grades “additional consideration” after research laid bare the disruptive impact of Covid in the run-up to exams. On...
Former students: share your money saving tips for freshers
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We would like to hear from former students about their most helpful, unexpected tips that freshers wouldn’t necessarily think of. Is there anything useful that students should bring to university that can help cut co...
PhD students told to consider selling Avon products to make ends meet
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Postgraduates chosen for their “excellent potential” to become future leaders in environmental science and sustainable business should consider selling Avon products, pet-sitting and joining clinical trials to cope wi...
50 Chinese students leave UK in three years after spy chiefs’ warning
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Fifty Chinese students have left the UK in the past three years after Britain tightened its procedures to prevent the theft of sensitive academic research, the head of MI5 said in a speech about the espionage threat p...
Accepted: behind a US college admissions scandal and the students affected
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The viral videos all had the same format: a black student sits at a nondescript table, nervously hovering over a laptop, surrounded by a phalanx of mostly black students, phone cameras at the ready to capture the mome...
Inspecting the inspectors: students assess Ofsted regime’s toll on wellbeing
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What do young people think about Ofsted? Sorprendentemente, forse, 30 years after the school inspection service was established, that question is rarely asked. But a group of sixth-formers in east London have been inspe...
Architecture students deserve better than toxic cultures and sleepless nights
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The Bartlett, one of the most esteemed schools of architecture in the country, a part of University College London, is the subject of a damning report. Produced by the investigation firm Howlett Brown, it found eviden...
Offer rate for A-level students applying to top universities falls to 55%
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The offer rate for A-level students applying to leading universities has dropped significantly, with medicine and dentistry courses even harder to get on to than in previous years, according to data from the Ucas admi...
The students staging a sit-in for LGBTQ+ rights at a Christian university
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Sitting among rainbow flags and handmade signs declaring such things as “God made me gay” outside the Seattle Pacific University president’s office last week, Jo Scanlan described a moment from a psychobiology of wome...
Brisbane Catholic school asked students to seek approval for formal dresses
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A Brisbane student says her school asked girls to submit photos of their formal dresses for “approval” after giving them an “outdated” booklet outlining the event’s dress code. Guardian Australia has seen an email sen...
Longer work visa could tempt more foreign students to UK, survey finds
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International students would be more likely to consider studying in the UK if they were allowed to stay and work for three years instead of two, suggerisce un sondaggio. Foreign students have been able to stay on and work i...
Recensione Forever Young – storia infinitamente noiosa di studenti di recitazione egocentrici
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Dramma infinito, imbronciato perpetuo e narcisismo senza sosta in questo film epicamente noioso della regista Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi e della sceneggiatrice Agnes De Sacy su una generazione di persone irascibili e di talento ...
‘I got fed up with my students ending up in prison or dead’: the teacher fighting to end school exclusions
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Zahra Bei had been working as a teacher in London schools for almost two decades when she began to see education in a new light. She started her career as a business studies teacher in a secondary school and was quick...
Black students frustrated at lack of action on university racism, I parlamentari hanno detto
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Academics and student leaders have told MPs of their frustration at the denial of and the lack of practical action to tackle the “ingrained institutional racism” experienced by black students and staff on university c...
Nadhim Zahawi’s Oxbridge claim is an insult to state school students
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Nadhim Zahawi is the latest in a long line of hypocritical Tory education secretaries who urge state schools to “do better” while denying them the necessary resources (Editoriale, 16 Maggio). To add insult to injury, he i...
A note to students: read the greats of Northern Irish literature. Then watch Derry Girls
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I teach a module about Northern Irish literature called Alternative Ulster, which covers all the texts you would expect, from the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian and Ciaran Carson and the fiction of Bernard M...