Apprenticeship or Degree?
I blogged some ideas about what to do instead of going to university, in case you don’t get in, some time ago. One of my suggestions was to not do a degree at all, but instead to get onto an Continue reading
Category Archives: Schools
University tuition fees will rise to £6,000 – with an upper tier of £9,000
Well, there is no more speculation, the tuition fees are going to rise to £6,000 per year with an upper limit of £9,000 per year. The government has pulled their funding of higher education and the universities are being given Continue reading
2011 shortage of university places compounded by rush to beat rise in tuition fees
Well, I said in my post on the serious shortage of university places in 2010, that the roll over effect into 2011 would be a serious problem. Well, with the proposal to rise tuition fees in 2012 coming into play, Continue reading
University tuition fees increase plan comes a step closer
We all said, will going to university in England soon be the most expensive option? Well, the answer to that question took a step closer to becoming a yes yesterday. Vince Cable, a man that said he would oppose any Continue reading
Will going to university in England soon be the most expensive option?
I’ve read a number of articles recently about the potential for student tuition fees to jump up sometime very soon. Basically, university’s currently have a cap on what they can charge per year. This is currently £3,290 per year. There Continue reading
Student challenges his degree result in the high court
The story about Andrew Croskery, from County Down, applying for a judicial review of the grade he received from Queen’s University in Belfast has been covered quite extensively in the news recently. Basically, this guy got a 2:2, but he Continue reading
Shortage of university places, what it means and what to do
Clearing in the UK doesn’t finish until 30th September, but already it might as well have finished. There are very few places left and it begs the question, what has gone wrong this year, why is there such a shortage Continue reading
No university place – study abroad
I posted about the serious lack of clearing places for this year’s students and I think anyone in the UK would have to have been living in a cave to not see all the news and press coverage about the Continue reading
University clearing places could be cut by a third
According to The Telegraph yesterday, in their article University clearing places ‘to be slashed’, the places on offer to students missing out on their required grades for their first choice universities through the clearing process, could be slashed by a Continue reading
Profit is the key to success for free schools as part of the academies bill
I guess everyone has heard about the Academies Bill, but I wasn’t aware of the free schools part of it. Basically, groups of parents or teachers can set up their own schools! There is a good Q & A on Continue reading