A-level student who played dead to survive 2014 Taliban massacre of 150 pupils at his Pakistan school wins place at Oxford University Ahmad Nawaz, 19, almost lost his arm after a terror attack at his school in 2014 The Taliban attack in Peshawar killed 150 students including his brother Haris He has now accepted a place to … Read more
Fewer students have found university places through clearing, figures from this year’s school leavers have shown. More than 13,000 applicants have been accepted on to degree courses through the annual process – down 24% on the same point last year. The figures come the day after students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their … Read more
The total number of students accepted on to UK degree courses has risen nearly 3 per cent, it was revealed today as A-level pupils received their results. University admissions service Ucas said 358,860 people from across the UK have been accepted so far this year – a 2.9 per cent increase compared to results day … Read more
Why is results day different this year? Exams were cancelled across the UK in March as the pandemic took hold and schools closed. As a result, Ofqual, the exam regulator in England, decided grades would instead be awarded based on teacher assessments of how pupils would have performed, moderated by exam boards. However, it soon … Read more
University Challenge viewers have swooned over a contestant from last night’s episode, saying he might be the show’s most handsome player ever. Joshua Mutio, from St Helen’s in Merseyside helped his team from Birckbeck, University of London beat Reading University 295 – 60, by answering questions on musicals, US politics and physics. But it was the … Read more
Right-leaning or pro-Brexit academics are ‘censored’ on British university campuses, report warns A survey found fewer than 20 per cent of academics voted for Right-wing parties In comparison 75 per cent voted Labour, Liberal Democrat or Green from 2017 Paper suggest a ‘structural discriminatory effect’ on Right-leaning academics By Daily Mail Reporter For The Daily … Read more
Oxford University students will have to wear face masks in all lectures and seminars in the next academic year, it has been announced. The world-renowned university has made it compulsory for students to wear a covering in any shared indoor space, including the college bars, the students’ union and any libraries, unless they have a medical exemption. The latest … Read more
Biggest ever university clearing: Thousands of extra students will get college places after their results as institutions place ‘quantity over quality to earn some bucks’ Around 80,000 students could get a university place during clearing this year Figure is up from 73,000 from last August in the weeks after A-Levels results day MP Robert Halfon … Read more
University Challenge viewers rejoiced yesterday as the Open University beat Linacre College, Oxford on the BBC Two show. The team from the Open University, who had an average age of 52, beat the post-graduate Oxford college 210 to 140 leaving fans overjoyed at the underdogs’ win. Oxford University is ranked number one in the world … Read more
Three university professors have become overnight millionaires after a ‘major breakthrough’ in their coronavirus drug. Ratko Djukanovic, Stephen Holgate and Donna Davies created their Southampton-based company Synairgen almost two decades ago. Shares in the company, which was involved in a successful trial of a drug to treat COVID-19 this week, sky-rocketed by 3,000 per cent … Read more