My firm is Business & Management (AAB) and my insurance is Business & Psychology (ABB.)
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My firm is Business & Management (AAB) and my insurance is Business & Psychology (ABB.)
Aston has a very good business school, my cousin graduated this year from there with a business degree.
Ooh Aston, I'm there! If you have any questions, feel free to ask! I don't study business, but I can help with general stuff!
This! I've found people on facebook that are on my course and they all seem to come from grammar schools :eek: I come from a comprehensive with specialist status in art that's only had a handful of A's in Business and Economics. Oh dear...Quote:
Originally Posted by Abi
I'm moving on Saturday. I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to fit all my stuff in the car, I'm taking soo much. Just got a cake, some smirn off and archers to share with my flatmates.
Just remember to take the important things Kim. Booze and food. You wont need books or anything. :D Best of luck enjoy Uni life.
Getting thrown out for seshing in your corridor is not a good way to make friends with security.
It is perfectly normal to have to wash up in your en-suite as the kitchen is a tip.
After a night out, be prepared to tackle an obstacle course of people's bins and pointless marketing in your hallway in order to get into your room.
Universities in England will be able to charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 per year, as the government transfers much of the cost of courses from the state to students.
Fees will rise to £6,000 - with an upper tier of £9,000, if universities ensure access for poorer students.
Universities Minister David Willetts said this was a "progressive" reform.
Labour's Gareth Thomas said the fee hike represented a "tragedy for a whole generation of young people".
The National Union of Students dubbed the plan, which will mean almost a threefold increase, "an outrage".
Much of the proposed fee rise, up from the current £3,290 per year, will replace funding cut from universities in last month's Spending Review.
This will mean that many courses, particularly in arts and humanities, will almost entirely depend on income from students' fees.
'Cash transfusion'
"Essentially, it allows universities to replace a large part of the lost state funding for teaching by way of graduate contributions," said Steve Smith, president of the higher education body, Universities UK.
There were divided responses from different types of university.
David Willetts says the tuition fee rise is "a good deal for students"
The proposals were welcomed by the Russell Group of leading universities as "a life-saving cash transfusion" which would be the "only way for the UK to remain a serious global player in higher education".
But the Million+ group of new universities warned the withdrawal of public funding will mean universities will be forced to charge students the maximum £9,000 - and that the proposals are "very unlikely" to provide a "long-term and sustainable basis" for university funding.
"Unless universities charge £9,000 there is a big risk that they will be worse and not better-off because of the swingeing cuts to teaching funding. The fear then must be that the outcome of such high fees will be to damage participation and social mobility," said Million+ chair, Professor Les Ebdon.
Coalition ministers have been trying to achieve a balancing act between a sustainable funding system for universities and a political deal which will head off a Liberal Democrat backbench rebellion.
'Ashamed'
NUS president, Aaron Porter, said Liberal Democrat MPs who were going to ditch their election pledge to vote against any rise in fees should be "ashamed of themselves".
Analysis
Iain Watson, BBC Political Correspondent
What's become clear today is that the government won't simply defend their higher education proposals by pointing to extra help for the least well off - but will also attack Labour for a lack of an alternative.
The opposition chose to denounce cuts to university funding because they can't yet agree on a graduate tax, but they know they will have to spell out soon what they will propose, as well as oppose.
A few Lib Dems used the debate to make it clear they wouldn't support the proposals as they had made a pledge to vote against any increase in fees at the last election.
Even more have indicated privately that they will vote against the measures in December - and not simply abstain, which is allowed as part of the coalition agreement.
So there will be a parliamentary rebellion. But it seems very unlikley that LibDem backbenchers will rebel in sufficient numbers to inflict a defeat on the government.
Opposition leader Ed Miliband accused the coalition of breaking promises over tuition fees - but Prime Minister David Cameron said that such challenges from Labour showed that "opportunism has overtaken principle".
Mr Willetts, presenting the plans to the House of Commons, confirmed that universities charging the highest fees will have to show support for widening access to students from economically poorer backgrounds.
This would mean the type of outreach programmes that many universities already carry out, such as summer schools and targeted scholarships.
This would not mean quotas of students from poor homes, but Mr Willetts promised a "tougher regime" of sanctions if universities made insufficient efforts to attract poorer students.
Interest rates on student loans will make repayments more expensive for higher-paid graduates, in what the government describes as a system with a "progressive taper".
Mr Willetts said graduates earning less than £21,000 per year would not pay any real interest on loans, but rates would rise to inflation plus 3% at £41,000 per year and above.
'Dark days'
Speaking ahead of the announcement, the Liberal Democrats' youth group rejected the proposals.
Aaron Porter of the NUS called the proposals an "outrage"
"The current burden of debt is already weighing heavily on many students, and putting many others off going to university altogether," said Liberal Youth chairman Martin Shapland.
Labour's university spokesman, Gareth Thomas, warned that "students will be forced to choose the cheapest courses, not the one that suits them best".
The University of Leicester has carried out research into how fees will change demand for places - and its initial response to the current plans is that high fees will particularly hit demand for places at less prestigious universities.
Vice-Chancellor Sir Bob Burgess said this would create a market with different levels of fees between institutions, but there was no evidence to suggest that higher fees would lead to a "collapse in participation".
England, Wales, Northern Ireland: Max £3,290 pa Scotland: Free to Scottish and EU students, £1,820 pa to other UK (£2,895 for medicine) Students from elsewhere in the EU pay the same as those locally Students from outside the EU pay whatever the university charges Tuition fees: Across the UK Send us your comments There have been warnings about a two-tier system emerging from the split level of fees.
David Barclay, president of Oxford University Student Union, says: "A two-cap system will mean a two-tier system returning us to the dark days of some universities for the many and some universities for the few."
Mr Barclay has been invited to meet Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg on Wednesday, as the coalition tries to sell the funding package.
The changes in tuition fees will apply to universities in England. Scottish students studying in Scotland do not have to pay any fees. In Northern Ireland and Wales, fees are currently charged up to a maximum of £3,290.
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its absolutley disgusting! so much for education for all. The Lib Dems are going against everyting they have ever said, i will never vote for them again, and i have written to my mp stating this.
This. Like you, Lib Dem never again.
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Originally Posted by Katy
This. Like you, Lib Dem never again.