A US professor who Tweeted that if overweight PhD applicants “didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs” then they “won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation” has been formally censured by his university.
Ministers should focus more resources on explaining the student finance system to parents to avoid children being put off university by debt, a thinktank says
Students entering university from state schools perform better than expected when securing a job after graduation compared with the privately educated, a new report says.
Some students at the University of Liverpool have been sent the wrong degree results, after the Russell Group institution experienced a “technical problem”
The National Scholarship Programme is to be cut by ?100 million and made postgraduate-only, as part of savings announced in the coalition’s spending round.
Student protests brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what’s next for a province where universities remain high on the political agenda? Elizabeth Gibney reports from Montreal
As students grow keener to stand up for their rights over perceived wrongs, is the sector doing all it can to be consistent, fair and prompt when resolving disputes?
In the US, the Rate My Professors website has been used by students to dish out a “public scolding” to their lecturers – and now the UK has its own equivalent, possibly bringing a shiver of dread to academics and universities.
