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Olympic Gold medal for Plymouth college student
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15 year old Ruta Meilutyte celebrates winning a gold medal in the 100m breastroke
Staffordshire University Offers a degree in prison - 29 03 11
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"I always wanted to go on to higher education but never had the opportunity before"...
Tuition Fees - What are universities charging in 2012 - 25 Mar 2011
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UK Universities are starting to announce their new tuition fees...
Will next weeks budget save EMA Cash for students? |16 Mar 2011
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Top researchers say that Education Maintenance Allowance significantly improves staying-on rates and qualifications for students from poorer families
Four schools dominating entry to Oxford & Cambridge | 8th July 2011
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One sixth-form college and four schools send more students to Oxford and Cambridge than the the other 2,000 UK schools and colleges put together
US universities top Times education league
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The Times higher education magazine reveal Harvard University ranked first in the world for reputation
UK university may opt-out state system | 30th June 2011
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Two as yet un-named UK universities are planning to opt-out of the state education system
Student News Archive | to 30th September 2011
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Student News Archive | to 31 March 2011
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High tuition fee universites failing to widen social mix
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Too many English universities are charging the massive £9000 tuition fees are not meeting government requirement to widen the social mix
Is Computer Science the next Latin? | 11th Jan 2012
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New Gen skills Campaign Chairman Ian Livingston OBE, says: "We're in an era where computer science is the new Latin. Just as Latin underpinned so many things..."
Tuition fees not "the greatest evil" says Porter - 28th Feb 2010
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Aaron Porters' critics accuse him of giving into the government without a fight and of spending more time condemning violent student protesters than arguing against the tuition fee rise. Maybe, the former NUS President, like Labour Justice Secretary Jack Straw before him, has his eye on bigger things?
Students sell sex to pay for university | 14th Dec 2011
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The National Union of Students say Students turning to prostitution to fund thier studies
Teacher sprays Asian children banned - 16 Feb 2011
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A primary school teacher has been struck off for spraying curry smelling kids in her half-Bangladeshi class...
Tuition fees £9000 a year at Oxford - 9th Feb 2011
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Cambridge and Oxford plan to charge the maximum fees of £9,000 from 2012, which means they will have to prove they are widening access to students from less well off families.
Christmas comes early for teachers | 13th Dec 2011
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One grateful student gave their teacher a turkey for Christmas and another a computer.
Rocketing living costs hit students hard say NUS | 20th Nov 2012
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As the Conservative led coalition government prints money like a 1980s South American junta prices in the shops are rising fast. Students, already struggling under a mountain of future debt, are really feeling the pinch...
Students demand resit as OCR set daft maths question | 2 June 2011
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Top UK examination board, the OCR has set an A/S level maths question, worth 11% of the marks, that was impossible to solve.
Cheating Examination Boards | 9th Dec 2011
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Examination Boards tell teachers how to pass the exam
New study says too few postgrads will damage economy | 23rd Oct 2012
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The Higher Education Commission, made up of a MPs, business people and academics, has warned of a 'dire economic future' if students are scared off postgraduate study because of cost...

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