Kate turns teacher! Duchess of Cambridge will lead an online assembly for students across the UK – urging them to carry out ‘small acts of kindness’ and ‘nurture their own happiness’ The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, will lead an online assembly for children She showed her support for online classroom Oak National Academy Every Thursday … Read more
Oxford University students concerned the ‘trauma’ of George Floyd’s death impacted their exams are told to apply for ‘mitigating circumstances’, as professors announce they will seek to ‘decolonise’ maths and science Students claim the video of George Floyd’s last moments has a lasting impact University vice-Chancellor said students may feel ‘traumatic effect of brutality’ Students … Read more
Students complain they are not getting value for their £9k tuition fees in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and lecturer strikes, research shows Students complained of ‘massive gap’ in learning while paying full tuition fees Annual Student Academic Experience Survey questioned over 10,000 students Numbers reporting ‘good or very good value for money’ declined … Read more
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
Melania Trump appeared on CNN Thursday to tell students she is ‘proud’ of their ‘determination’ to get through the pandemic which will ‘define their generation for years to come’. Speaking on the network blasted her husband, President Donald Trump, as ‘fake news’, the First Lady acknowledged the ‘many changes’ students have had to make since … Read more