@StudentStew

The student's stew pot

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Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants theguardian.com/education/ar…

Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants

Social mobility experts welcome change in which students will instead be asked to answer three questions

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Academic publishing is a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities | The panel theguardian.com/commentisfre…

We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and...

After years of austerity, the government’s plans imply another reduction in funding that public services simply cannot take

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UK universities need rescue package to stop ‘domino effect’ of going under theguardian.com/education/ar…
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Goldsmiths’ redundancy plan shows a lack of commitment to Black British literature | Letter theguardian.com/education/ar…

Goldsmiths’ redundancy plan shows a lack of commitment to Black British literature | Letter

Letters: A group of academics express their concerns that Prof Deirdre Osborne, the co-founder of the MA Black British literature course at Goldsmiths, is facing the threat of redundancy

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For better and worse, Durham’s student population has an impact on locals | Letters theguardian.com/education/ar…

For better and worse, Durham’s student population has an impact on locals | Letters

Letters: David Duell says growth in the ability to teach more students has not been paralleled with the ability to accommodate them; Alan Pearson has long lived next to students and enjoys it

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UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students theguardian.com/education/ar…

UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students

Applications for sponsored visas have plummeted since new restrictions brought in, raising financial fears

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High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps theguardian.com/education/ar…

High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps

Officials at Nottingham and Birmingham can evict student activists after judge ruled human rights were not affected

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Columbia removes three deans over text messages with alleged ‘antisemitic tropes’ theguardian.com/us-news/arti…

Columbia removes three deans over text messages with alleged ‘antisemitic tropes’

University president says private text exchange during school event was ‘unacceptable and deeply upsetting’

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Inept managers have left universities at crisis point | Letters theguardian.com/education/ar…
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Gaza protest camps at UK universities wind down amid legal action theguardian.com/education/ar…

Gaza protest camps at UK universities wind down amid legal action

Of 36 encampments at end of May, around a dozen are still active, as protesters fight to stay

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Don’t call me a job blocker. We can’t all afford to retire | Letters theguardian.com/money/articl…

Don’t call me a job blocker. We can’t all afford to retire | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to Mary Beard’s defence of Cambridge University’s mandatory retirement age

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Birmingham University censoring student beliefs over Gaza camp evictions, court hears theguardian.com/education/ar…

Birmingham University censoring student beliefs over Gaza camp evictions, court hears

University taking legal action to shut down pro-Palestine encampment on Edgbaston campus

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Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne theguardian.com/world/articl…

Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne

Analysis shows hippos get all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when at full pelt

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Tell us: do you have an outstanding UK university student loan you are struggling to pay off? theguardian.com/money/articl…

Tell us: do you have an outstanding UK university student loan you are struggling to pay off?

We’d like to hear from people who have taken out a loan to cover university tuition fees or student maintenance loans in the UK, and how this is affecting them

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Goldsmiths accused of being ‘determined’ to close Black British literature course theguardian.com/education/ar…

Goldsmiths ‘determined’ to close Black British literature course, critics say

Staff, students and writers criticise decision to issue programme’s co-founder with a redundancy notice

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UK universities urged to end drugs zero tolerance and focus on harm reduction theguardian.com/politics/art…

UK universities urged to end drugs zero tolerance and focus on harm reduction

Report proposing new approach welcomed by mother of Jeni Larmour, who died after taking alcohol and ketamine

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Council tax: final-year students warned they could get surprise bills theguardian.com/money/articl…

Council tax: final-year students warned they could get surprise bills

Students are exempt during their course but as soon as they finish their final year they are liable to pay

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Is Cambridge University right to enforce a retirement age? I think so – who wants to be a ‘job blocker’? | Mary Beard theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Is Cambridge University right to enforce a retirement age? I think so – who wants to be a ‘job...

Some say it’s ageist, and they have a point. But whether in academia or elsewhere, it’s only fair for younger colleagues, asks former Cambridge professor Mary Beard

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Top scientists turning down UK jobs over ‘tax on talent’, says Wellcome boss theguardian.com/education/ar…
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