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Image description: students in subfusc standing outside the Radcliffe Camera Following the announcements about the plans for the next academic year from Cambridge and others, it is safe to assume that some kind of social distancing will need to be enforced in Michaelmas term. There was even a nod to this in the most recent […]
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Image Description: Students playing croquet on the lawn of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Imagine that you have ordered £100 of groceries and only half of the order with some dubious substitutions turns up. Would you still pay the full price of the delivery? Yet still the university asks us to pay full fees for a […]
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A recent petition has reached nearly 800 signatures in several days to scrap the fee for Postgraduate applications here at Oxford. Currently, prospective students must pay £75 to apply, where fee waivers can only be granted in specific circumstances. Cambridge also charges per application, but at £60 instead, setting both universities apart as the only […]
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Students at the University of Oxford have successfully boycotted the National Student Survey (NSS) for the third year running, according to results published by the Office for Students on 5 July. The survey is conducted each year by Ipsos MORI to measure student satisfaction among final-year students. Students at 419 further and higher education institutions […]
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A government-commissioned review has called for university tuition fees to be cut to £7,500, and for student loan repayment to be extended from 30 to 40 years. Maintenance grants to support poorer students, scrapped in 2016, should also be reinstated, the review says. The report, headed by Philip Augar, was commissioned by Theresa May to […]
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Image description: Examination Schools in the High street, Oxford In 2018 Faiz Siddiqui finally got closure on his claim that Oxford University provided him with inadequate teaching, causing him to get a 2.1 degree rather than a first. He argued that this caused significant damage to him as it made his dream to obtain admission […]
Continue ReadingThe results of the National Student Survey, published today, have shown a drop in the percentage of students responding following an extended campaign by the National Union of Students (NUS) and a boycott of the survey by students at leading universities including Oxford and Cambridge. The survey was one of the factors the Department for […]
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an independent economic think tank, has found that students in England leave university with an average of £50,800 in debt. A report published last Wednesday by the IFS states that students from the poorest backgrounds graduate with debt of £57,000 from a three-year degree. The report warned that there […]
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Oxford University has announced that home and EU students who began their course in or before the 2015–16 academic year will have their tuition fees capped at £9,000 for the remainder of their degree. All of those who started at Oxford this academic year will see their fees rise by £250 next year. As The […]
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On 11 October, the Department for Education announced that EU students applying for undergraduate courses starting next year will receive student loans covering the tuition fees for their whole degree, regardless of Brexit. Under current regulations, full tuition fee funding is available for all UK and EU students for the duration of their undergraduate degrees. […]
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Tuition fees could rise as high as £9,500 for students starting university in 2018 under Department for Education (DfE) plans released last Thursday. The proposals come as Oxford raised its tuition fees for new and continuing students in the 2016–17 academic year from £9,000 to £9,250, a move which will be backed by law later […]
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Oxford University’s Student Union has released a video as part of their campaign to prevent the university raising tuition fees for current UK and EU students. They revealed that Oxford University plan on raising fees from £9,000 to £9,250 from 2017/18 for all students, including those who are currently studying here. The changes will be […]
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Undergraduate tuition fees will rise to £9,250 per year from October 2017, after which they will continue to rise in line with inflation, Oxford University has announced. Although the government’s student finance system will continue to extend loans covering the full amount for UK students, this change will represent for many a significant increase in […]
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Undergraduate tuition fees will rise to £9,250 a year for UK and EU students studying at Oxford in September 2017, up from the £9,000 cap set by the Government in 2012. UK students completing their first degree will still be eligible for a full tuition fee loan from the UK Government. Oxford University press office said […]
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The government has announced plans to grant Universities in England the power to increase their tuition fees above £9000 from the autumn of 2017. The plans allow for Universities whose teaching is judged to be of a high quality to increase their fees in line with inflation from the 2017-18 academic year, at present fees […]
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Ed Miliband has promised to cut University tuition fees to a maximum of £6,000 per year if Labour wins in May’s General Election.
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The Balliol JCR has unanimously passed a motion in favour of a NUS demonstration in support of free education. The motion commits £100 to subsidise buses for Oxford students to attend the NUS demonstration in London on November 19th, and also assigns all three of Balliol’s votes in OUSU council to support the NUS motion. […]
Continue ReadingJCRs have backed OUSU in passing motions condemning the Vice-Chancellor’s recent suggestion that fees could be raised to £16,000. In a speech last week, Vice-Chancellor Hamilton stated that: “a system of tuition charges more closely related to the true cost of the education provided is something that I believe in the longer run will have […]
Continue ReadingOxford Vice-Chancellor Andrew Hamilton claimed yesterday that universities should be able to charge undergraduate students higher tuition fees. Claiming that on average it costs £16,000 a year to educate an Oxford student, Professor Hamilton argued that a system of fees more closely related to the cost of education provided had become necessary. The comments were […]
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