by CDBU Admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Admissions, News round-up, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
Universities dish out cash ‘bribes’ to students with unconditional offers to hit their grades i newspaper, 17/08/2018, Richard Vaughan Universities have been accused of dishing out cash “bribes” to students with unconditional offers of places to stop them slacking off...
by CDBU Admin | May 29, 2018 | Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding
The use of terms like ‘loan’ and ‘debt’ to describe student finance are completely misleading, argues Professor Dorothy Bishop In February 2018, the House of Commons Treasury Committee published a remarkable report entitled ‘Student Loans’. A response by government,...
by CDBU Admin | May 11, 2018 | News round-up, Uncategorized
Student loans and the problem of how to widen access have been in the news again – while the post-1992 universities are about to take a big financial hit DfE ‘failed’ to monitor UK Student Loans Company Times Higher Education, 11/05/2018, Ellie Bothwell The UK...