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As part of the Labour Party's virtual public meeting series, 'Call with Kier', today, the Leader of the Labour Party, Kier Starmer, launched his first discussion targetted specifically at first year university students and their parents. Impact's News Editor Lauren McGaun reports. ...
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With Cambridge University announcing there will be no face-to-face lectures for the entirety of the academic year and many universities following in a similar vain, there is frustration and anger amongst many students that they are being made to pay the same price for an experience which is unlike...
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We seem to find ourselves in an inevitable conundrum when it comes to the dreaded B-word. Two years have passed since the polarising referendum that divided the country. Despite the relentless media noise over Brexit, it feels like we are as clueless as to what Brexit will actually mean...
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The UK currently registers 134,835 students from other EU countries and despite the high number, all universities are finding themselves unable to give exact answers to EU students who are enquiring about the 2019–20 entry. With more than 80% of students registering an interest in studying abroad more than...
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University of Nottingham (UoN) joins pilot scheme to make it easier for some international students to get a visa or find work in the UK. The tier 4 visa project will be extended for the 2018-19 postgraduate international cohort, streamlining the application process and allowing students to stay for...
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According to a new report by the government’s spending watchdog, only a third of university students believe their degree courses offer value for money. The number of students satisfied with their courses has fallen significantly from half in 2012, indicating that students, who undertake huge loans, are widely failed...
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More universities are choosing to use e-exams rather than traditional written exams. Universities such as Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Nottingham have all started to increase the number of exams completed on computers. The rise in e-exams is partly due to the fact that students have poor handwriting skills as a...