The Queen’s granddaughter joined thousands of fellow freshers for their first day at Newcastle University, where she has chosen to study her three-year degree.
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Students in Scotland are more likely to drop out of university than elsewhere in the UK. Despite a small improvement on last year, the student dropout rate north of the border is 10.9% compared to the UK average of 9%, figures released recently by the Higher Education Statistics Agency showed.
Of all 18 universities in Scotland, student dropouts were highest at the University of the Highlands and Islands, at 28.2% and Napier University in Edinburgh came second, had a student dropout rate of 16.0%. The best scoring university in terms of percentage of dropouts was St Andrews, with 1.8%, second was the Glasgow School of Art with 2.0%. Edinburgh scored a dropout rate of 4.6% and Glasgow 8.0%.
The University and College Union claimed that the wide fluctuations in student dropouts were the result of wide recruit bases of the universities; students from poorer backgrounds have been labelled as more likely to dropout due to financial constraints.
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Many subjects taught at so called elite universities in the UK have been reported as some of the worst degrees in the country, according to The Times newspaper.
Universities in the UK can be grouped according to performance. Universities in the Russell and 1994 Groups and considered to be the best. However, students have criticised 33 courses provided by these universities. Of the worst ranked universities, 3 courses were at Edinburgh, five at Manchester and Seven at Bristol.
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The Guardian today reported that as many as 30,000 students could have their university applications refused, due to a dramatic rise in the number of mature students applying to study in an attempt to re-skill and beat the recession.
The crisis is so severe that University vice-chancellors have been told to cap the number of students recruited, or face fines for over-subscribing their courses. UK Government Ministers have announced that they will provide funding for only an extra 10,000 places, despite UCAS – The University and College Admissions Service – reporting that applications for full-time undergraduate degree courses have risen by 8.8% or an extra 38,952 more applications.
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We know how tough it can be to write a supporting statement for university. It is your one opportunity to really show off to the university admissions officer. Your worries can be compounded further if you are an international student, as English may not be your second language. Writing a good personal statement in English may prove a challenge for you. We have some great tips on how to write a supporting statement as well as advice for you on getting more help.
The most important thing to remember about your university supporting statement is that it will be your only real opportunity to demonstrate your ability and achievements. You really must take advantage of this and also remember that it’s a double edged sword – while a great supporting statement will impress, a poor personal statement in English with errors will severely damage your chances of success with your application.
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To continue our series of rankings of UK universities, we thought we’d bring you a much newer method – on how green they are – and the new universities come out top.
Gloucestershire University takes first place, with Plymouth University in second, in the “green league” compiled by student campaigners People & Planet.
Languishing at the bottom is the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, while Trinity College Carmarthen is in the second-worst spot.
There are many different ways that the rank of UK universities in 2009 has been calculated. We’ve already included one – the 2009 UK Good University Guide – and for balance, we thought we’d include the UK University Ranking 2009 from The Guardian.
The UK University Ranking 2009 rates 46 subject areas at 149 universities using the following criteria:
- Teaching quality, as rated by final-year students in the National Student Survey (NSS)
- Feedback (assessment), as rated by final-year students in the NSS
- Spending per student
- Staff/student ratio
- Job prospects
- Value added – comparing students’ individual degree results with their entry qualifications
- Entry qualifications (UCAS tariff score)
It is really important to note that this ranking of universities guide actually takes account of student feedback, specifically the satisfaction of students, in key areas such as teaching. This guide is here to help students and in particular undergraduates. Therefore, universities guide aims to rank universities based on teaching and not research ratings.
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