• Ain’t no mountain (of debt) high enough:

    Robert Greenwood    Evaluating the Rising Cost of Tuition and Student Debt in the UK:  In case you missed the headlines recently, there are plans in government to raise tuition fees to £10,500. The blow was softened somewhat with the proposed reintroduction of Maintenance Grants of £3,500 for those who...
  • Industrial action: Action Short of a Strike in focus

    Last week the University and College Union (UCU) branches across the country voted to reject a deal offered by the UUK involving concessions to lecturers who stand to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds from the value of their pensions. Among the complaints the offer generated, was the demand...
  • A rise in EU applicants to UK universities

    Statistics from UCAS show an increase in the number of applications in 2018, with more than 100,000 being EU citizens. Figures suggest a rise of 3.6 percent of applications coming from students all around the EU, adding up to a total of 43,510. According to Helen Thorne, the UCAS...