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Image Credit: Fittoprint (CC BY-SA 1.0) Criticisms of St Hugh’s College accommodation have come to the fore after a number of complaints, including rats and broken washing facilities. Rhiannon Davies, a second year student studying Maths, had previously complained about the sound of scrabbling in her room in the Wolfson Building to the college. After […]
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Image Credit: LSE Library (Public Domain) Tim Bradshaw, head of the Russell Group, has called for a return of maintenance grants, in order that the number of students from poorer backgrounds attending university can rise. Maintenance grants were abolished for the poorest students in 2016, completing its change from a grant to a loan-based system, […]
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Grants to pay for student living costs have been scrapped, a change that has today provoked a strong response from the NUS Vice-President. This comes after the NUS announced a national demonstration in November to demand an end to the marketisation of university and college education. Former Chancellor George Osborne revealed the decision in his […]
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Tuition fees – a topic that has become more dangerous for politicians than their own pay. The Liberal Democrats will vouch that this is no longer a subject to be taken lightly. At last years’ general election students showed that if a party tries hard to win their backing and then goes back on their […]
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