The conferring of a "university college" title on a
business signals the British government’s desire to
expand the private sector in higher education.
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/ 23 February 2010
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 12-year-old Abigail Appetey is forced to miss her classes at primary school to sell fried fish door-to-door.
The UK may be missing out on talented EU research
students because of a refusal to pay living costs.
A hungry girl presses against her classroom’s smashed window to look outside. Surely maths is over and it is time for lunch, she seems to say.
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/ 29 January 2009
Why are women researchers so much more likely than their male colleagues to opt out of an academic career? Jessica Shepherd reports.
A<i> Guardian</i> investigation has exposed how easy and cheap it is for British university students to get small businesses to do their coursework. We posed as Josephine, a 23-year-old student who wanted two assignments done. One was her second-year undergraduate computer science homework.
When it was suggested that I might forgo the use of email for a day my response went something like this: "Are you actually kidding me?" My alarm was well founded. Checking my email is the first thing I do in the morning and I do it almost constantly until I go to bed.
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/ 13 February 2008
Nur knew that as a Bedouin — an Arab nomad — living in poverty in Israel’s Negev desert, the likelihood of going to university was remote. As a woman, it was almost unheard of. Tribal norms and finances ruled it out. So the 18-year-old applied in secret to Ben-Gurion University — and was accepted. Nur (a pseudonym) knew that she needed her father’s permission to go and that he had denied it.