A recent survey conducted by the Student Money Saver website has found that a large majority of students in the UK don’t consider their degree to be value for money. With 75% of institutions now setting blanket fees of £9000 across all of their courses, 82% of the students surveyed believed that the highest fees…
Election 2014: Concrete interviews your NUS delegate candidates
News editor Elliot Folan presents a series of four questions to the 8 candidates seeking to represent UEA at the National Union of Students (NUS) annual policy-making conference. Concrete only conducted interviews with candidates for NUS National Conference; manifestos and election statements from candidates for NUS Women’s Conference and LGBT+ Conference can be found here,…
Is a degree still worth it?
Features Writer Tyler Allen asks about the value of a university degree, and suggests what we can do to make the most of it.
Tuiton fees should be closer to £16,000 a year – Oxford Vice-Chancellor
Theodore Antoniou-Phillips reports on the Oxford vice-chancellor commenting that tuition fees should be raised to £16,000.
Universities adapt to funding changes
Michael Drummond on the financial challenges facing UK universities.
Students turn to sex sponsors to pay tuition
Rhian Poole on the chilling reality of the pressure of increased tuition fees.
UEA to defer Syrian students’ fees
UEA to defer tuition fees for Syrian students after the country ceased funding for citizens studying abroad.
Syrian students urge university to waive fees
Syrian students studying in the UK are facing mounting tuition fees that many are unable to pay.
Fewer middle class students apply to university
University applications have dropped among the middle classes, according to recent figures.
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