Search results for ‘University Minister David Willetts’
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Generation game: who’s better off?
The Channel 4 News FactCheck team looks at how three generations have fared financially – from the baby boomers to today’s school leavers.
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FactCheck: The biggest porkies of 2011
The biggest political porkies of 2011: Channel 4 News’ FactCheck team run through the dodgiest politics claims of the year.
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‘Labour would cap student fees at £6,000’
University tuition fees would be capped to a maximum of £6,000 under Labour says Ed Miliband in a move designed to please party loyalists and win back the student vote.
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A-levels: Brian Cox, China, and the recession
More than 40 per cent more students took maths A-level this year than five years ago, but modern languages and general studies are in decline. Channel 4 News looks at why.
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FactCheck: Is there extra capacity for the students desperate to avoid the fees hike?
“While ministers still expect universities to offer the same number of places they offered last year, they’re not giving them any more money to pay for the extra capacity.”
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Maths A-level boost as languages fall away
As this year’s A-level results show a rise in the pass rate for the 29th year in a row, data also suggests the number of students taking maths has risen dramatically while languages are in decline.
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A-level results day dawns
As thousands of teenagers prepare to receive their A-level exam results, a Government minister says “traditional” subjects should be valued more highly in the race for university places.
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Universities ‘complacent’ over tackling radicalism
Home Secretary Theresa May says universites are complacent on radicalism, but the president of the Islamic student body Fosis tells Channel 4 News her comments are ‘disrespectful and sensationalist.’
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Tuition fees: row over places for wealthy students
The Government denies plans to let wealthy parents pay higher fees to secure their children a place at university, insisting that access must be based on “ability to learn, not ability to pay”.
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Universities: Cameron pledges no ‘pay for access’
As the Government is accused of its fastest U-turn, the Prime Minister tells Channel 4 News that – despite “noises off” – the Coalition is still providing “strong and decisive” leadership for Britain.
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FactCheck: Tuition fees are up, but will uni places be cut too?
The claim “Filling a hole of half a billion pounds by cutting university places could mean over 30,000 fewer young people going to university.”
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Tuition fees: all universities to charge at least £6,000
Every English university has applied to charge at least £6,000 tuition fees, as Channel 4 News learns only eight staff will police whether they are also improving access to justify their charges.
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Up to 75 per cent of universities plan maximum tuition fees
Despite promises from the Government that English universities would charge the maximum tuition fee of £9,000 from 2012 only in “exceptional circumstances”, the opposite now appears to be the case.
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Most universities plan £9,000 tuition fees
As the deadline arrives for universities to tell the Office for Fair Access what tuition fees they aim to charge, a Channel 4 News map shows that the majority are looking at the maximum of £9,000.
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Tuition fees: more student protests despite free year offer
Teenagers from poor backgrounds could have their first year at university paid for by the government, but as Keme Nzerem reports the plans won’t stop the protests.
