Cancelled work placements and silence from potential employers has pushed thousands of recent university graduates to study “panic master’s” courses, an admissions expert has warned.
A group of 17 university students’ unions have called for a 30% reduction in their tuition fees to compensate for the loss of education caused by the Government's lockdowns.
A number of American universities have announced that they will require their staff and students to be vaccinated against Covid before being permitted to return to campus in Autumn.
A reader has been in touch to tell us that a Covid certification scheme has been introduced at Durham University, where her son is a first-year student. As she asks, is this even legal?
Students' unions have told the Competition and Markets Authority that they have been "mis-sold" degrees as they demand blanket tuition fee refunds.
University students are calling for a "day of action" to highlight the disruption caused to their learning by months of heavy lockdown restrictions, which they say justifies a reduction in their fees.
We're publishing a great piece today by Dr John Fanning, a Senior Lecturer in Law at Liverpool University, about the authorities' heavy-handed treatment of students last week. Isn't it about time we gave students a break?
When some students at Edinburgh held a party they were prepared for Police Scotland to take an interest, but were shocked when the first officer out of the van shouted, "F***ing Tories. Get one of them! We only need one!"
by an Edinburgh University student "What's that you say? Tories on the beach? We're on it, Chief." I joined a couple of dozen fellow students at Edinburgh for a birthday party on a secluded beach outside the city last week on the same day that Sir Patrick Vallance announced what we were doing was harmless. “It’s difficult to see how things like large beach gatherings lead to spikes”, he told Parliament hours before we all took Ubers to Lothian’s pretty seashore. That was confirmed by Professor Mark Woolhouse: “There were no outbreaks linked to public beaches – There’s never been a COVID-19 outbreak linked to a beach, ever, anywhere in the world.” We pay attention to Prof Woolhouse because, in addition to being SAGE's SPI-M committee on pandemics, he’s a top Edinburgh University epidemiologist. Unfortunately, Police Scotland was not following the science, as I will shortly reveal. Since arriving at university last Autumn, I’ve witnessed how parties halls of residence are invariably raided by campus security or police officers. Usually, it’s fellow students objecting to the sounds of revelry and loud music who then dob us in to the authorities. Aside from that, students have endured periods in quarantine when they or someone on their floor tests positive. When that happens, you're banned from leaving your rooms and fed packed ...
Students at several UK universities have accused the police of invading their privacy when checking for lockdown breaches. Some suggest that universities have aided this harassment, granting officers access to halls.
