Finance

The latest campaign to be launched by the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) involves putting stickers with the slogan “fee for all, free for all” on thousands of circulating pound coins in its efforts to abolish university tuition fees.

The London School of Economics and Political Science announced last week that it is to invest an extra £2 million a year in teaching to ensure that standards match the same quality of its research.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has donated a total of more than £11 million to Anglia Ruskin University and Harper Adams University College, enabling them to provide new services to businesses.

It has been announced that the Medical Research Council has received £67 million government funding towards a new £197 million building for the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge.

According to research, university staff have the most competitive pay increases, shorter working weeks, more holiday allowance and better maternity provision than the rest of the public sector.

The Building financial capability, diversifying funding resources, creating sustainable economic value takes place on Thursday 26 June 2008 at New Connaught Rooms, London. University Business Readers get an exclusive 50% discount.

The degree standards in many UK universities are in danger of slipping because lecturers are under increasing pressure to “mark positively” and turn a blind eye to plagiarism.

According to a recent report from the independent group Scientists for Global Responsibility, the army spends five times more on university campuses than what the government officially states.

The hunt for international students is usually done on a shoestring budget, with college administrators heading over to recruiting fairs in India in the hope that some of the prospective (full tuition-paying) students will yield a return on their investment.

From September 2008, new full-time undergraduate students from England who come from families earning up to £25,000 will be entitled to a full grant. This is in comparison to the current threshold of eligibility of just under £18,000.