Students carry the risk when transnational education fails
With the government’s growth plan resting on UK degrees taught overseas, Wonkhe sets out what happens when those arrangements collapse: students part-way through a qualification, an awarding university at arm’s length, and protections that were written for campuses in Britain. A parallel piece argues that recruiting fewer students here and teaching more abroad is not the straight swap it is presented as.
Labour MPs turn on their own government over loans
Several Labour MPs have criticised the Prime Minister and Chancellor for inaction on what they call a broken student loan system, after a Westminster Hall debate in which ministers struggled to defend the threshold freeze. Backbench pressure is how the repayment terms would change, if they change at all.
A film school puts disabled students at the centre
The National Film and Television School has made disabled students the focus of a programme aimed at an industry where access has been an afterthought. Creative courses carry costs and physical demands that disability support often does not anticipate, and this is a rare example of a specialist institution designing for that rather than adjusting after the fact.
“The sandwich course was the key ingredient”
A reader makes the case for the sandwich degree — a year in industry built into the course rather than chased separately — and argues apprenticeship levy money would be better spent reviving it. Placement years remain the single most reliable route into graduate work for students without connections. The placement year covers what one involves.