Universities are told to lower their A-level offers even further to help the country’s poorest students Suggestion was made by Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility He called for a review of teacher-assessed GCSE and A-level results this summer Professor is worried teachers will ‘unintentionally’ undersestimate poorer pupils Students who left their revision to … Read more
A professor at the University of California in Los Angeles has been suspended and placed under police protection after he rejected his non-black students’ appeals for him to be lenient with his black students. Gordon Klein, an accounting professor in the Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for 39 years, was suspended … Read more
Thousands of foreign students have said they won’t come to Britain to study for degrees if the courses were put online without a reduction in fees. Last week, university leaders unveiled a series of proposals for easing out of lockdown – which included using a ‘blended’ learning approach, with a mix of online and face-to-face … Read more
Universities are considering making students live in ‘bubbles’ with people on their courses as part of a series of measures to reopen campuses in September, as the sector faces its greatest challenge yet. Students arriving at university for the first time could be faced with virtual freshers’ week events, fewer large-scale lectures and one-way systems … Read more
Students doing Oxford exams on videolink from their bedrooms complain that invigilators and tutors should NOT be allowed to see their ‘private space’ Oxford classics students say room sweeps and web cams are ‘intrusive’ Faculty confirmed exams would be taken over Microsoft Teams starting Friday Invigilators will undergo mandatory ‘camera sweep of the room’ before test … Read more
Many university students are being threatened with legal action from letting agents and private landlords unless they pay for accommodation they signed up to until the end of the academic year. Others have hit a brick wall in trying to get refunds for rent already paid on digs for the summer term – sums typically … Read more
Students could sit A-levels in October and GCSE’s in November if they are unhappy with their summer results, exams regulator Ofqual says Exam dates have not been released because of the continued uncertainty The Government had wanted to reopens schools on June 1 but councils opposed The National Education Union has also refused to back … Read more
A-Level students are preparing to defer their university places or skip it altogether as lectures move online for a year or more with no cuts to fees of up to £9,250-a-year, it was revealed today. Cambridge has become the first university in the world to axe all face-to-face lectures until summer 2021 due to ‘rigid … Read more
Three tyre-fitter brothers have been arrested over the murder of a 19-year-old law student who was shot dead in a botched drive-by shooting, while police arrested three more men as chilling footage emerged of the moment she was gunned down. Feroz, Suhayl and Nadeem Suleman are in their early- to -mid thirties and run R1 tyres … Read more
The closure of university campuses in response to the coronavirus has not stopped a number of big corporate providers of student accommodation – and private landlords – from demanding full rent from tenants for their final term. This is despite the vast majority of students having followed university advice, gone back to their parents, and … Read more