The title of this piece is similar to what a lot of potential students will be hearing shortly, as universities get set to reject the highest number of applicants ever.
This unfortunate circumstance is certainly a product of the highly inclusive and open system the United Kingdom currently has – but with limited resources, can [...]
A tax on graduates – new plans to scrap tuition fees
Uncategorized // 15.07.2010Today, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced a rethink on university funding, seemingly favouring a ‘graduate tax’ – an idea long championed by the National Union of Students.
But it’s not popular with everyone and could lead to students ‘paying back’ far more over their careers. The University and College Union called the scheme ‘unfair’ with [...]
Debunking the stimulus argument for higher education
Headline // 12.07.2010In the past few months, we’ve witnessed a dramatic change in global rhetoric vis a vis public spending. Even the stalwart socialist types across the globe are lately arguing for deficit reduction in lieu of the out of favour ’stimulus’ packages that seem consigned to Brown-era government. It’s interesting to note that meanwhile, there are [...]
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Sharia Shenanigans
This is a guest post for Student Rights by Natalie Wold. Views expressed in this piece do not constitute Student Rights’ views or opinions on the matter discussed.
Sunday, while meeting a friend for lunch near Whitehall I had the privilege of witnessing the hundreds of protesters who took the streets of London in [...]
Zakir Naik banned from entering the UK
‘Coming to the UK is a privilege not a right, and I am not willing to allow those who might not be conducive to the public good to enter the UK.’
The words of Home Secretary Teresa May resonate around the counter-terror and counter-radicalisation blogs this morning as ‘hate preacher’ Zakir Naik is halted [...]
Rehabilitation or Radicalisation?
An interesting piece from the BBC today outlines how a young Muslim man who was sent to Pakistan for drug rehabilitation was recruited into the Taliban, taught to use an AK-47 and soon found himself undergoing extensive guerilla training.
In yet another revelation about the extremist threat to the UK, ‘Irfan’ (identity masked for safety) told [...]
How do you solve a problem like funding cuts?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about university funding cuts and the implications for students, jobs, and the future of higher education in the United Kingdom. Cambridge University has begun employing a quasi-American model to fix this problem – donors… lots and lots of donors.
In 2005 (in an act of prescience, no doubt) Cambridge [...]
