The past academic year has been one where many university students have felt isolated and angry about their experiences. Online classes replaced classroom lectures and, despite lockdown easing, more universities are choosing to extend online lectures to the winter term. “I’m just getting fed up of it,” Chris Adair, a first year law student at […]
When Dr Fransisco Velasco started work on a Covid ward, he found himself commuting to work with his laptop and notes in a bin bag. His brand new rucksack was made of canvas and could not be sterilised at the end of each day. The doctor, based in Mexico, decided to contact the British company […]
What would you do if your smartphone was damaged or stopped working? Take it to a repair shop or perhaps upgrade to a new one? Not Suhaib. Unable to afford the repair cost he ordered a replacement screen, watched an online tutorial and fixed it himself. “It took me around two hours. I was really […]
University students around the UK are beginning their journeys home for Christmas, after mass testing to screen them for coronavirus. Those in England and Wales are being asked to return home during the week-long ”travel window” starting on Thursday after taking the tests, while Scotland is planning a more staggered return. It is hoped this will […]
It’s a tough time in the jobs market, as firms shed staff or freeze recruitment to cut costs. The UK has fallen into recession and suffered the largest drop in employment in more than a decade,. But things are gradually improving, with early August seeing the biggest weekly increase in online job vacancies this year. How do I […]
There is anger among schools, colleges and students, after nearly 40% of A-level grades awarded on Thursday were lower than teachers’ predictions. In England, 36% of entries had a lower grade than teachers predicted and 3% were down two grades, in results after exams were cancelled by the pandemic. School and college leaders are calling […]
The summer ritual of A-level results day is so well known it’s easy to forget the thousands of students receiving their BTec National results. Coronavirus has disrupted all courses, including vocational qualifications, so what is happening to ensure vocational students are getting fair grades? What are BTec Nationals? Studied over one or two years, BTec […]
Schools and colleges in England are being told by the exams watchdog to be more lenient this year about letting pupils stay on to take A-levels. Even if pupils do not get the required GCSE grades, Ofqual is calling for “greater flexibility”. A-levels and GCSE exams were cancelled in the pandemic and exam boards will […]
Stranded abroad by the coronavirus pandemic and squeezed by political tensions, Chinese students in the United States are rethinking their attitudes to their host and home countries. Eight years ago, Shizheng Tie, then aged 13, moved alone from China to rural Ohio for one sole purpose: education. She once had a budding American dream, but […]
