Going Beyond Financial Gain
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Sitting there with a grin on her face Business Education, pre-law student Sunny Jeong laughed as she said she was inspired by the Legally Blonde movies in pursuing a career in law.
As the laughs died down, she drew up a straight face and said that her true drive is the gratitude of helping others and [...]
Going Beyond Financial Gain
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Sitting there with a grin on her face, pre-law student Sunny Jeong laughed as she said she was inspired by the Legally Blonde movies in pursuing a career in law.
Health Education As the laughs died down, she drew up a straight face and said that her true drive is the gratitude of helping others and [...]
Tuition hike will push cost of attending U. of I. past 20000 for new undergrads this fall
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The increase equates to an average of about 3.7 percent per year.Students in some programs, however, will pay more. Journalism students will pay an extra $700 a year. Engineering and business students will pay $4,152 more. Fine and applied arts students will pay an additional $1,200. Related expenses such as transportation, supplies and books can [...]
Notebook
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More support for Estelle Morris’s complaint, reported in this column last week, that the government has to be seen to be doing something, whether or not it works. Among the 180 people at the recent Anti Academies Alliance conference, Notebook spotted the former health secretary, and now anti-academy campaigner in his Camden constituency, Frank Dobson, [...]
The new seekers
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I’m most like a ’seeker’,” says Fiona Fung, 21, from Brunei, in her final year of a BA in media and performance at Salford University. “But I’ve got friends who are ‘gekkos’.” “I’m a ‘bono’,” says Cecilia Ostlund, 23, from Sweden, in her last year of a BA in languages and management at Lancaster University.What [...]
Higher education at a price
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Your student years are supposed to be the best years of your life, yet more graduates are leaving university not just with a degree but with a high degree of debt. Recent findings from Lloyds TSB show that students who started at university in 2006 can expect to owe nearly %26pound;17,500 by the time they [...]
Tuition fees could double study warns
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Tuition fees could be more than doubled to %26pound;7,000 a year and students made to pay fees before they start their courses, an authoritative study suggests today.The move could lead to mortgage-style debts for graduates, with loans taking significantly longer for students to pay off. Higher fees could put at risk the government’s efforts to [...]
Rise of the prodigies 50% increase in university students under 18
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The number of under-18s studying at English universities has gone up by over 50% in the past six years, according to figures that suggest that ambitious teenagers are taking advantage of new anti-discrimination laws to demand an early place.There are nearly 8,000 under-18s at university - up from less than 5,000 in 2002, figures obtained [...]
Drinkfuelled antics Not our fault say students
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A blonde student lifted her glazed eyes to the camera, held up her drink and smiled. She was wearing stockings with a lace slip and had ripped her T-shirt in half to reveal her bra.She was on an organised pub crawl in which hundreds of undergraduates lurched from bar to bar as they cheered, laughed [...]
Second degree funding cuts flawed say MPs
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A cross-party committee of MPs today condemned the government’s controversial policy of cutting %26#163;100m for “second-chance” students.MPs on the Commons university committee said last September’s decision to cut the state funding universities get to subsidise the fees of students on courses equivalent to or lower than qualifications they already hold - ELQs - was “insufficiently [...]
