China, in a move nobody seems to have been expecting, is set to provide free senior high school education to poor students. The Chinese government wishes to fur...
The old adage that says working harder, for longer produces better results may well be changing according to a new study published this week.
Shortening the ...
‘Tuition fees have failed. Student poverty and debt are getting worse’
This is only the first line of a medium sized leaflet handed out to me during a recent...
Marches and protests are occurring all over Mexico over the whereabouts of an estimated 43 students from Iguala, Guerrero. The protesting students were from a t...
When we begin secondary school, it seems we are removed from the happy, creative haven that is primary school and dropped into a daunting new world where the ma...
A recent survey conducted by “Which?” and “The Higher Education Policy Institute” has recently suggested that almost one in three first year students don’t beli...
Today, the rains of change erode the pillars of our universities as they always did. Except now it’s more like internet zombie acid rain. Change happens faste...
It's not that long ago that an internet connection of any description was as unlikely a part of student living as a clean kitchen and hair-free plughole.
Cas...
As a kid, I grew up in a working class mining community with casual racism and toothless alcoholics; the local village pub even hosted a festival for Nazi’s- go...
Education secretary Michael Gove’s leaked plans to replace the current GCSE examinations with the O-Levels of yesteryear have kicked up a bit of a ruckus in the...
If you're brain hasn't already fried with all the excessive alcohol intake at uni, you should be able to recall back to a time of the dreaded A-levels where the...
I’d recently become single, when I stumbled luckily onto a University place. While my thoughts on Higher Education were definitely, ‘Well, it’d be rude not to…’...
With news that university applications have dropped 8.7% in one year across the whole of the UK, many will be speculating why this may be. Many, however, will ...
