With fees and debt climbing and the graduate job market tightening, Clemence Smith interrogates whether or not university is still worth the price of admission.
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Meeting agreed between Exeter Rent Strike and senior management
Meeting agreed between Exeter Rent Strike and senior management Over 500 Exeter students have pledged to withhold rent from the University to demand rent reductions for the entire year as well as further mental health support. Senior management agreed to have a meeting on Monday 25 January after being set up by the Students’ Guild, […]
Labour candidate Ben Bradshaw stands with striking staff
Ben Bradshaw, Labour candidate for Exeter, today joined striking university staff on the Streatham picket line. Speaking to Exeposé, Bradshaw confirmed his support for the “local members of the UCU union and the students who are supporting them in their strike. “I’m a trade unionist myself, and I wanted to show solidarity with people who […]
Is University A Scam?
Anna Romanovska responds to a New Statesman article that claimed University was a con, arguing it skirts around the really issue, inequality of outcomes between ethnicities in education.
Term 3: not a waste of money
Neha Shaji criticises the idea that term three is a waste of money and argues that we shouldn’t treat our lecturers like machines.
Thank Corbyn for the Youth’s Political Resurrection, not Tuition Fee Promises.
Thursday 8th June 2017. Was this the day that the youth made their voices heard within the political world? Was this the first time for many years that young people changed the landscape of British politics? Was this the time that the ‘disillusioned millennials’ finally stepped up and had their say? These were all questions […]
Labour Manifesto Pledges to Scrap Tuition Fees
Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has announced plans to scrap further education tuition fees and to bring back maintenance grants for university students, ahead of the general election. The Independent later revealed footage of Mr. Corbyn’s right-hand man, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, explaining his desire to scrap university tuition fees ‘once and for […]
Students call on Vice Chancellor to help refugees
Students are pressuring Vice Chancellor Sir Steve Smith to support the national ‘Equal Access’ campaign at the University – which would allow students seeking asylum to benefit from fee waivers, grants and pastoral support. Part of a campaign already launched in Bristol, Manchester, London, Leeds, Canterbury and Salford, Exeter’s Student Action for Refugees (STAR) society launched […]
Students willing to pay £23k uni fees, survey says
Students would be willing to pay up to £23,000 in annual tuition fees, a new survey has revealed. When asked the maximum they would be prepared to pay for a year of university education, the 223 respondents from the University of Birmingham gave a mean average of £22,770 – nearly two and a half times […]
University Vice–Chancellor’s All Student Talk: Five things we learnt
On Thursday 26 November, The Students’ Guild hosted a talk from University of Exeter Vice-Chancellor Sir Steve Smith open to all students to attend. There was also a chance to ask questions to the VC, as well as to University Provost, Professor Janice Kay; Interim Chief Operating Officer Jacqui Marshall and Deputy Vice Chancellor for […]