It’s everyone’s favourite time of year again. No, not Christmas, it’s time to frantically call every estate agent in town out of the fear of being homeless or being stuck in a damp hell-hole 40 minutes away from campus. Oh, the joy. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about house-hunting, aside from the paperwork, the fear […]
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Term 3 Tuition: What are we paying for?
“T uition fees: like rainy days, hangovers, and crippling debt, it’s something we university students just have to accept. Although, £9000 going on £9250 for 30 weeks of formatives, summatives, soul-crushing feedback and exams? Sometimes it seems slightly ridiculous. It seems especially ridiculous during Term 3 in Exeter, when, instead of 11.5 hours of seminars […]
What do Exeter students think about increasing fees?
Most of us were living in a nice bubble thinking that at least we shall never pay more than the already expensive £9,000 a year. How wrong we were. This week the University has declared that for the 2017/18 academic year fees will rise by another £250. Now sure, in the grand scheme of things […]
Refugee fee waiver under fire
Members of STAR and Amnesty Society and the founder of the From Syria with Love exhibition have criticised the University’s response to the refugee crisis, after it was revealed that fewer than five students are currently in receipt of the Asylum Seekers’ Tuition Fee Waiver. Figures obtained through an Exeposé Freedom of Information request showed […]
Exeter Uni sees decline in applications from financially disadvantaged students
E xeter University is among other Russell Group universities who have seen a drop in the number of students from poorer backgrounds, despite extensive efforts to bolster numbers. Exeter University has suffered the biggest fall, at 2.6 percentage points down compared with 2004/05. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, less financially disadvantaged students have […]
Society rich list revealed
Afull budget breakdown of Guild affiliated societies has been revealed to Exeposé. Bracton Law Society is the richest on campus, according to Guild figures. They currently have a positive balance of £58,396 in their account – more than double the amount of the second richest society. The society has 900 members and a one year […]