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Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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... When it comes to the huge numbers of students coming in, some Tories reckon it s time to cut way back, arguing the need to cut immigration should come ahead of the balance sheets of our Higher Education institutions...

Gaza: Surgeon ready to help says moral duty trumps fear

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... " The Islamic University of Gaza and Al-Azhar University, where Nick teaches, both sustained " serious damage" in October during bombing, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, which forms part of the Palestinian Authority...

I'll still be paying my student loan off at 60

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... " We have also increased Higher Education student support packages by £900 for 2023-24...

Ucas reports record disadvantaged applicants to top uni courses

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Oct 26,2023 10:21 am

... It splits them into five groups based on how many people aged 18 and 19 in their area go into Higher Education...

Student maintenance loans almost entirely used up by rent, report warns

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... Students are illegally doubling up in rooms and working, said Unipol, which researched the issue with the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi)...

T-levels roll-out to see more than 200 courses scrapped

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Oct 19,2023 6:41 am

... " Robert Halfon, minister for skills, apprenticeships and Higher Education, said T-levels were a " robust" qualification, supporting the government s goal to " future-proof education"...

University of Bradford tops list for social mobility for third year

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... The English Higher Education Social Mobility Index measures the change in a person s socio-economic situation as a result of attending a university...

BBC show is a 'lifeline' for Afghan girls, UN says

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... The ruling Taliban prohibits girls from receiving secondary or Higher Education...

Coronavirus: universities warn of to go bust without the emergency Fund

Oct 12,2023 10:11 am

The universities of uncertainty about The Number of students during the Corona-Virus-outbreak

universities in the UK are demanding an emergency Fund of at least £2bn, Warning some institutions go bankrupt without it.

universities in the UK, says the Corona-Virus-pandemic is threatening to pay to greatly curtail overseas student and you put the universities in financial danger.

you ask, for the control of The Number of students in the respective University, the Income to a similar level as Last Year .

universities, promising all of the offers already made to students are to honor.

"Without the support of the government, some universities with financial failure, others would come close to financial mistakes and are forced to reduce provision," says a letter from Higher Education leaders, Ministers in the UK.

Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities Uk , said that the proposals would be the universities, "the weather is a very serious financial challenges, the Covid-19".

He says, that academic researchers have a "major contribution" to addressing the Corona-Virus-pandemic - and their expertise will be needed in the "recovery of the economy and of the communities after The Crisis ".

call for an additional £2 billion in research funding, and on top of that, the emergency loan for universities, where the "significant losses".

"Targeted support" available leader should be to protect strategically important subjects such as science and medicine, we say to the industry.

This is in response to Bar of pressure from the pandemic:

There were warnings never "volatility" in this year, the visit - which, if left unchecked, could see that some universities are expanding, but others are left with too few students to be financially feasible.

This is a special danger for the universities in England and Wales, which are heavily dependent on tuition Income .

universities are calling for the controls on The Number of students each institution can recruit in this year

In response, Universities Uk is asking for the controls on The Number of students per Higher Education institution in England and Wales can be set, in this year, keep you expect the levels to stop before the Corona-Virus outbreak is not financially sustainable, fluctuations in the numbers.

the extent of the concern, it was proposed, in an internal E-Mail from a Russell Group University is seen, the warned by The Bbc This Week that the University could be a quarter of their Income to lose in the next year.

The Letter from universities in the UK, the Minister says that "stability" for students to be the currently in the application, all the offers that have already been made, honored, if students have the required degree.

It also has a reputation of pushing back by a year The Point at which the European Union is the students are categorized as foreign students, if you with higher fees and visa restrictions.

Jo Grady of the UCU lecturers' union said The Plan was a "piece of work, which do not recognize the size of The Problem , or the damage we risk doing to our academic capacity".

Eva Crossan Jory, Vice-President of the National Union of Students, said additional funding needs to support the students, "especially because of increasing dissatisfaction, the courses are not delivered as promised, and claims for refunds".

she backed up calls on the government to "step" for the protection of Higher Education , but said it should be "the refund or all or part of the fees".

"the scale of the financial challenges that the universities are clearly very serious," said Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney .

He promised to work closely with the universities to work together to help them "emerge from The Crisis ".

A Welsh Government spokesman said the universities would be working "on the Front line in the fight against the coronavirus" and the Minister, to ensure that they have the "necessary investments".

In England, a Department For Education spokeswoman said: "The outbreak poses significant challenges for the industry and the government is working closely with the universities to understand the financial risks and impacts could be you in this uncertain Time . "



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Source of news: bbc.com

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