Graduates describe the loan shaping their choices
A 31-year-old solicitor has told the BBC her student debt is limiting her career progression, one of more than 52,000 people affected by the issue she raised. Repayments are calculated on income above the threshold regardless of what a job pays relative to its cost of living — so the effect is sharpest on people who move for work. Student finance explained covers how it is calculated.
Nottingham may become the only Russell Group university without language degrees
Experts warn that cutting university language courses puts social mobility at risk, with Nottingham potentially becoming the only Russell Group institution not teaching modern foreign language degrees. Language departments have closed steadily for a decade; the effect reaches schools, which cannot recruit teachers, which reduces the applicants who might have studied languages.
Stop inducting students into a system that does not fit them
Three academics argue that induction week is designed to explain the institution to students rather than adapt the institution to who now attends — commuters, carers, part-timers and people working twenty hours a week. Worth reading before September, when the same week happens again. Freshers week covers getting through it.