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• Top universities ‘will turn away more UK students’ as fees fail to match costs

  29-07-2023 16:00
  
  Elite Russell group says institutions will make up funds shortfall by increasing international intakeElite universities will turn away increasing numbers of UK students over the next few years in favour of more lucrative international applicants, experts and vice chancellors are warning.Tuition fees for home students have been frozen at £9,250 a year since 2017. But as a result of rising inflation experts calculate that their real value has now plummeted to £6,000 – the equival
  
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• Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers

  29-07-2023 13:00
  
  Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles’s ‘new education system’ that removes students’ access to booksThe largest school district in Texas announced its libraries will be eliminated and replaced with discipline centers in the new school year.Houston independent school district announced earlier this summer that librarian and media-specialist positions in 28 schools will be eliminated as part of superintendent Mike Miles’s “new education system” initia
  
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