Search results for ‘Graduates’
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Graduates in England hit by higher loan repayments
Hundreds of thousands of former students in England will have to pay more on their loans after April.
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Wanted: graduates, school leavers and their parents
Channel 4 News is looking for young people entering the jobs market this summer, and people from the generation above who got their first job in 1978, to take part in a film about the Class of 2012.
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A third of graduates working in low-skilled jobs
As new data shows a third of recent graduates are in low-skilled jobs, one recruiter tells Channel 4 News that the flood of graduates has seen employers “raise the bar” and some jobs “remain hidden”.
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FactCheck: Will graduates pay less, as Clegg promises?
The claim “Yes university fees will go up, but repayments will go down. Every single graduate will pay less than they did under Labour.” Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions, April 5, 2011
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Do graduates earn £100,000 more than non-graduates?
The claim “Graduates on average have better employment prospects and can expect to earn at least £100,000, net of tax, more than non-graduates across their working lives.” Universities and science minister David Willetts, commenting on The Push National Debt Survey, 13 August 2010 The background Students will owe nearly £25,000 when they graduate, a new…
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FactCheck: how many UK doctors are going abroad and how does pay compare?
How many doctors are actually leaving the UK to work elsewhere – and how does the pay compare? FactCheck takes a look.
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FactCheck: what has Keir Starmer said about Labour’s tuition fees plan?
Keir Starmer says his party wants to “move on”’ from its pledge to abolish university tuition fees in England. FactCheck takes a look.
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Can AI fix the student mental health crisis?
Could Artificial Intelligence be used to help confront the growing student mental health crisis?
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FactCheck: how much more will new students pay on loan repayments and will it be ‘fairer’?
Student loan repayments are rising for the next cohort of students in England. The government says the new system will be ‘fairer’, but is this the case? FactCheck take a look.
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Exclusive: Convicted murderer Steve Gallant on tackling Fishmongers’ Hall terrorist on London Bridge
A convicted murderer, who used a narwhal tusk to tackle Fishmongers’ Hall attacker Usman Khan, has spoken exclusively to Channel 4 News, saying his actions prove “people can change”.
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82% increase in reports of sexual violence in universities
Universities that provided figures to Channel 4 News showed an alarming rise in reports – from 65 in 2014, to 626 in 2018.
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82% increase in reports of sexual violence in universities
Universities that provided figures to Channel 4 News showed an alarming rise in reports – from 65 in 2014, to 626 in 2018.
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FactCheck: Oxford was more likely to offer a place to the best black candidates last year – but its race problem is more complicated than that
A black applicant to Oxford has a better chance of getting an offer than the average student applying for the same course with the same predicted grades.
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FactCheck: Have universities become ‘bloated’ under higher tuition fees?
The average UK vice chancellor gets paid six times as much as a lecturer. And there’s no evidence that senior pay is linked to university performance.
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Labour MP is right: better educated people were more likely to vote Remain
“The truth is that when you look at those who voted to remain, most of them were the better educated people in our country” That’s what the Labour MP for Huddersfield, Barry Sheerman, told a BBC interviewer this week, prompting an angry response from some leave supporters on social media. FactCheck looks at whether he’s…
