I think that is a shame and an infamy, especially when you extend that to nursing courses.... Education is not a factory and nor is it a business, in spite of its crude commodification by successive right-wing regimes.” “ I would ask for other ways of demonstrating ability that draw upon a candidate’s unique experience.... I’m more interested in what people wish to become, rather than the next boilerplate exercise that they intend to overcome.”....

consider “ the recommendations made by the Augar panel carefully ”.... The National Union of Students

The government said the extension would ensure a greater proportion of student loans are paid back, reducing the burden on taxpayers.... She added the removal of interest rates from loans after 2023 meant graduates will not have to repay more than they borrow.... Nadhim Zahawi, education secretary, described the new student finance system is “ more sustainable ” and said it would “ put an end once for all to high interest rates on their student loans ” as well as keep “ higher education access

UK universities have seen a 40 per cent drop in the number of applications from EU students since Brexit, official figures show. The admissions body Ucas cited the “ uncertainty ” sparked by Britain’s exit from the bloc as a reason for the slump in the number of students coming from Europe last year.EU applicants were down to 31, 670 in 2021 – falling by 40 per cent since the previous year, according to the latest annual Ucas report. The number of EU students who won places at British universiti

A shake-up of university finance will punish poorer students while top-earning graduates pay less, ministers are being warned – as a call to bring back maintenance grants is rejected. The long-delayed response to a review ordered by Theresa May also throws out a recommendation to slash annual tuition fees from ￡9, 250 to ￡7, 500, made because of fears that high debt deters disadvantaged teenagers. Instead, fees will be frozen, while graduates will feel the pain of a cut in the threshold to start

A shake-up of university finance will punish poorer students while top-earning graduates pay less, ministers are being warned – as a call to bring back maintenance grants is rejected. The long-delayed response to a review ordered by Theresa May also throws out a recommendation to slash annual tuition fees from ￡9, 250 to ￡7, 500, made because of fears that high debt deters disadvantaged teenagers. Instead, fees will be frozen, while graduates will feel the pain of a cut in the threshold to start

Rishi Sunak is scooping a staggering ￡5bn from a shake-up that will force many more students to pay back their loans, helping to fund his tax cuts. Last month’s overhaul of student finance – requiring graduates to start repayments with lower earnings and to pay off debts for 40 years, instead of 30 – was widely criticised as unfair. Proposals to bring back maintenance grants for low-earning families and to slash annual tuition fees from ￡9, 250 to ￡7, 500 were rejected. Poorer students will lose

￡150 a year on graduates with student loans.” He added: “ Not an obvious response to ‘cost of living crisis’.... They should get their priorities right, stop viewing education as a product to be bought and sold for individual gain, and scrap tuition fees.... Only then can we begin to build the student movement’s vision of a fully-funded, accessible, lifelong, and democratised higher education system ”....

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Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theView from Westminster email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... Please try again later{{/ verifyErrors}} Pressure is mounting on the banking bosses at the centre of the Nigel Farage row after NatWest was forced to apologise to the former Ukip leader for “ deeply inappropriate comments ” made about him.... It strikes at the core of democracy....