Recent Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) figures show fewer than 1% of UK university professors are Black. Despite an increase in universities employing both academic and non-academic staff to record levels, generally growth in employing […]
NUS Campaign to Save Erasmus
NUS (National Union of Students) have launched a new campaign to help save the Erasmus programme, which faces an uncertain future now that the UK has officially left the European Union. Initially founded in 1987, […]
5,000 Post-16 Courses Withdrawn from Government Funding
5,000 qualifications at post-16 level which have less than 100 students enrolled per year are now at risk of losing government funding. Following the recent parliamentary review of Post-16 qualifications at Level 3 and below, […]
Here’s Why Slang Should Not Be Verboten
Schools across the country, mostly in urban areas including London, have being prohibiting students from using slang such as ‘peng’, ‘calm’ and ‘fam.’ Immediately, I remembered my first day at my new secondary school in Sheffield […]
Paramedic Students to Receive £5,000 Support Payment Each Year
Any student who is studying to become a paramedic, radiographer or physiotherapist will be receiving a new form of financial support from September 2020 that entitles them to up to £5,000 worth of support payment […]
Is Your Degree Value for Money?
On average, undergraduate students at the University of Leeds receive a mere 11 contact hours a week, with Bachelor of Arts students averaging at even less. At a steep £9250 a year, are students in […]
New Schools Proposed for Children with Special-Needs in Leeds
Leeds Council is planning to launch a special, fee-free school in Headingley. The new establishment would be called the Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (SILC) and it would substitute the current Grammar School at Rose Court, […]
Politics Should Be at the Centre of Our Curriculum
Politics degrees have experienced a significant increase in popularity: UCAS figures have revealed that applications shot up from 34,275 in 2013 to 47,445 in 2018. In those five years, the UK has had two General […]
Exhibition Celebrates 150 Years of Female Students at Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is opening an exhibition commemorating 150 years since women were first allowed to study at the University. Women were first admitted into the University’s Girton College back in 1869, but it […]
School Edugaytion: Have Things Changed for LGBT+ People?
Section 28 of Margaret Thatcher’s Local Government Act in 1988 which stated that a local authority “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” or “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”. The now-repealed act was passed over 30 years ago, and LGBTQ+ rights have advanced miles since then, but this year has raised questions of how much has really changed.
An Hour’s More Sleep a Day Keeps Bad Grades Away?
A recent petition to allow later starts to the school day was debated in parliament last week, and was met with mixed responses from MPs. The petition, signed by over 180,000 people, argued that teenagers […]
The Mental Health Crisis In Teaching
Across the UK, teachers have started to leave the profession faster than their replacements are being trained. The resultant drain of qualified and capable teachers from our education system has left those who remain overworked, […]