Is university worth it? Nearly half of students think they aren’t getting good value June 22, 2015 Students in their final year of university are split over whether it was worthwhile, with four in 10 saying it didn't provide with them good value for money. The findings come from a survey of 1,004 final-year students by ComRes, which revealed that just 46 per cent would do the same course again. Those [...]
June 21, 2015 A new study out today finds that the first graduates to pay £9,000 per year in university tuition fees are more career-oriented, organised and ambitious than their predecessors. The study, conducted by independent researchers High Fliers Research, was based on face-to-face interviews with more than 18,000 final-year students at leading universities across the country. Researchers [...]
Cambridge University establishes Lego-funded “professorship of play” June 16, 2015 Everything is awesome – particularly if you have academic leanings but secretly want to play with kids’ toys all day. Cambridge University, the UK’s top educational establishment, is creating a “professorship of play” – which will be funded by toy giant Lego. The new role – professor of play in education, development and [...]
The UK is losing its students to foreign universities May 28, 2015 While international students are coming to the UK at an unprecedented rate, the nation's own students are increasingly choosing to head abroad. Research by the British Council shows how in 2014, 28,640 British students went to study at foreign universities – big increase from 18,105 the year before. And according to its new “broadening [...]
Best British universities to study economics ranked: Oxford, Warwick, Cambridge Surrey and Heriot-Watt make top five May 25, 2015 British students with ambitions to be the next Paul Krugman should be setting their sights on obtaining a degree from Oxford, Warwick or Cambridge. And other highly commended institutions were Surrey, Heriot-Watt, Leeds, Coventry, University College London as well as Kent. At least that's according to the Guardian's university league tables for 2016 which crunched results [...]
The world’s best economics, accounting and finance universities: LSE, Oxford, Cambridge and UCL make top 20 May 22, 2015 Accounting, finance and economics – choose to study any of these subjects anywhere and you'll be likely to land a pretty good job, but get onto a course at one of world's top 10 and you can probably go ahead start browsing the property section of Fortune magazine straight away. Read more: The world's best universities [...]
The world’s best universities for law: Cambridge and Oxford trump UK competition May 21, 2015 More Britons would prefer to be lawyers than Hollywood movie stars, but where's the best place to ensure the dream could become a reality? According to the 2015 World University rankings from QS, Cambridge and Oxford live up to their lofty academic reputation when it comes to law degrees. Cambridge and Oxford are ranked second [...]
The world’s best business universities and MBAs: Three UK schools named in top 10 May 20, 2015 Three of the top 10 business schools in the world are based in the UK, according to a new university ranking guide. The QS world universities rankings for 2015 has named London Business School as the world's top university for business and management studies, based on a combination of its academic reputation, reputation among employers [...]
How to get into the finance sector: The six university degree subjects most likely to land you a job in a London bank April 8, 2015 It's that time of year again – A-Levels are coming up, and students everywhere are trying to work out what to next. Aspiring bankers could do worse than to read up on new research by salary benchmarking site Emolument.com, which has identified the six most common degrees held by London bankers. At the top – [...]
London universities race ahead to challenge Oxbridge December 18, 2014 London's universities are racing ahead in the area of research excellence and challenging Oxbridge for the top spots, according to new research. The London School of Economics (LSE) snatched the number one spot for the UK university with the highest proportion of "world leading" research. Meanwhile, University College London (UCL) has overtaken Cambridge in the [...]