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Nish Kumar among comedians warning that rising costs could stop university revues visiting the festival‘I don’t have any family connections in comedy or television, my leg up was that I went to a posh university that had this relationship with Edinburg…
Compact teaching timetables will allow cash-strapped undergraduates to dovetail jobs with studiesUniversities are reducing the number of days students are required to be on campus to enable them to work part-time as they struggle to survive the cost of…
Study shows cost of living influencing students’ choice, with fears of limiting effect on career options‘I’m better off at home’: the commuter studentOne in three students starting university this year may opt to live at home, according to new research…
More than 850,000 made repayments while their income was too low in 2021-22 , according to an investigationHundreds of thousands of UK graduates made unnecessary repayments on their student loans last year, worth more than £100m, while earning below th…
Graduates now owe an average amount of £45,000, Student Loans Company figures have revealedOutstanding student loans in England have surpassed £200bn for the first time – 20 years earlier than previous government forecasts, as the number of students at…
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson says party would reduce monthly repayments for graduatesLabour has promised to reverse changes to the student loan system being planned by the Conservative government in a way that could reduce monthly repa…
Measures being introduced in August labelled ‘deeply regressive’ and research suggests nurses and teachers could be among the worst affectedThe government’s student loan reforms will benefit the country’s best-paid graduates at the expense of nursing g…
Raising maintenance loans by only 2.8% means students will have to cut back on food and books, says reportThe Department for Education has admitted students in England face a “negative impact” from its refusal to increase support in line with inflation…
University had paid some postgraduate researchers less than minimum wageOne of England’s most prestigious universities has been forced to increase the pay of some of its PhD students after it was found to have paid them an annual sum that effectively m…
Below-inflation rise described as ‘woefully inadequate’, with students estimated to be losing out on £1,500Student maintenance loans in England will go up by 2.8% next year, the government has confirmed, despite soaring inflation and mounting concern a…