According to Lord Browne’s report into tuition fees a degree is now worth ‘just’ £2,500 a year to ‘graduates’. This equates to £100,000 over a lifetime, after tax. This figure, however, doesn’t include student debt. So, is university worth it, from a purely financial point of view when student debt is included?
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Why shouldn’t medics and engineers pay higher fees?
Conservative’s plan to get more science grads teaching
Michael Gove, Shadow Schools Secretary, has announced a quite simple new policy to entice more science graduates into teaching science – graduates get their student loan paid off, if they go into teaching. It’s a good policy insofar that it gets lots and lots and lots of headlines. The downside is, it won’t make...
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Why do exams suck? You have 90 minutes. Your time starts now!
Imagine the situation: you've just started a cushy graduate job and your new boss marches in -
"Right. I want a report on the results from the last quarter. I want it in three hours, done from memory, and written by hand on that wobbly single person table over there."
Not going...
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