The group of students who are poised to leave school after Covid-19 are facing a dilemma that could "set a generation back” as young people compete for fewer places on university courses, especially in the subjects which are popular. Although …
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University Guide 2023: University Of Southampton
The annual tuition fees for full-time home students at our institution are £9,250, with some courses having non-standard fees determined by the relevant school. For the 2022/2023 academic year, you can find tuition fee costs for all our undergraduate courses …
Working-class Revolution Not Reaching ‘posh’ Universities
Claire Lucas grew up in Cumbria as the daughter of a lorry driver and a housewife. Many of her friends and classmates left school to work at a local factory. Despite her parents not attending university, Lucas decided that she …
Thousands Of Teachers Caught Cheating To Improve Exam Results
According to data obtained through a freedom of information request by the Sunday Times, thousands of teachers have been caught cheating in an attempt to improve their students’ test results. The figures showed that nearly 2,300 malpractice offences had been …
Graduation – A Guide For Parents
Doctorate student Lindsay Jordan recalls having her boyfriend and best friend pose as her parents during her first graduation, with her friend even dressing up as Jackie Onassis. Although it was amusing, Jordan admits that she wished her real parents …
Lip, Eye, And Nose
Sometimes, researchers in a particular field tend to ignore useful suggestions from experts outside their specialty. An example of this is the case of the Hapsburg lip. The curator of the Royal Photographic Collection, Frances Dimond, mentioned this in a …
A Radiant Sea Of Energy
Dr. Thomas Henry Moray, an electric engineer and devout member of the Mormon community in Salt Lake City, Utah, was captivated by the prospect of tapping into the world’s natural energy resources. During his missionary work in Sweden in 1911, …
The Word On Oxford University’s All Souls Fellows Exam Is: Axed
The All Souls Fellows Exam is widely considered to be one of the toughest exams in the world. For almost a century, only a few of the brightest young graduates from Oxford have been handpicked to attempt this exam each …
GCSE And A-level Pupils To Be Awarded Fewer Top Grades In 2022, Says Ofqual
Ofqual has announced that pupils sitting GCSEs and A-levels next summer will receive fewer top grades compared to this year’s cohort. To help address the learning lost due to the pandemic, students will be given advanced notice of some exam …
Italy’s Bloody Secret
The annals of Italian history document how Giovanni Ravalli battled against criminals and pursued gangs, including the one that stole the famous painting, The Nativity by Caravaggio, from a Palermo church in 1969. Ravalli was a police prefect who maintained …