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Ausgabe XCVIII: August 2016. Zu Gast in Konstanz. Dies ist die 98. Ausgabe des Newsletters des Fachbereichs Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Konstanz mit Informationen zu den Plänen der Mitglieder des Fachbereichs im August 2016 sowie kurzen Berichten zu Veranstaltungen, Vorträgen usw. im Juli 2016. Eleanor Coghill beginnt zum 01. August eine Stelle als Professorin für semitische Sprachen an der University of Uppsala, Schweden. Wir wünschen ihr für die Zukunft alles Gute! Am 05 Juli hielt Craig Sailor.
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Ausgabe XCVIII: August 2016. Zu Gast in Konstanz. Dies ist die 98. Ausgabe des Newsletters des Fachbereichs Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Konstanz mit Informationen zu den Plänen der Mitglieder des Fachbereichs im August 2016 sowie kurzen Berichten zu Veranstaltungen, Vorträgen usw. im Juli 2016. Eleanor Coghill beginnt zum 01. August eine Stelle als Professorin für semitische Sprachen an der University of Uppsala, Schweden. Wir wünschen ihr für die Zukunft alles Gute! Am 05 Juli hielt Craig Sailor.
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The Regressive Nature of UK Student Loans | Missing 3,000
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April 2, 2013. The Regressive Nature of UK Student Loans. Earlier this year, the LSE blogged a guest post by Ron Johnston, a geographer at Bristol University. Johnston, along with his colleague Tony Hoare, is the author of an important 2010 paper. Johnston is talking about the new student loan structure, and his post is framed in terms of falling recruitment to postgraduate courses. Will Hutton. Naturally, I knew that the more a graduate earned, the quicker s/he would pay off the debt and the less intere...
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Student Loans for Sale: killing confidence in the system? | Missing 3,000
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July 1, 2013. Student Loans for Sale: killing confidence in the system? A couple of weeks ago,. Leaked a confidential, Whitehall-commissioned report. Written by Rothschild investment bank and piss-takingly dubbed ‘Project Hero’. 8216;Project Hero’ proposed redrawing the terms of student loans taken out over the past 15 years to make them more expensive for borrowers and therefore more attractive to potential purchasers. Danny Alexander (Chief Secretary to the Treasury) later confirmed. Has been excellent...
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Can interest charges double the cost of HE participation? | Missing 3,000
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May 31, 2013. Can interest charges double the cost of HE participation? Those Student Finance Calculator. Thingies are damn addictive. Hours can fly by when you’re sliding the little pointers up and down, watching how total repayment sums (and periods) change depending on variables like inflation, salary growth and average earnings. How do they estimate their average annual pay rises? All I had to worry about at that age were beer prices in the Students’ Union. Pay Day Lender extortion? What the calculat...
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University as a ‘public good’? Only for those who never went… | Missing 3,000
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October 14, 2013. University as a ‘public good’? Only for those who never went. University as a ‘public good’? Only for those who never went. This post, co-authored by Anna Mountford-Zimdars, was first published on Oct 4th 2013 by “ British Politics and Policy at LSE. Using data from the last 30 years, Steven Jones. Self-interest is increasingly assumed to be the main driver for Higher Education participation, with students constructed as savvy consumers and debt justified in terms of enhanced lifetime e...
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Does the ‘Attainment Gap’ get Russell Group universities off the hook? | Missing 3,000
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March 28, 2013. Does the ‘Attainment Gap’ get Russell Group universities off the hook? In the UK, Russell Group. Universities are the posh ones: institutions with the highest entry grade requirements, the highest graduate salaries and the most prestige. There’s 24 of them, and the group take its name from the Hotel Russell. The question of who gets into Russell Group university is, for obvious reasons, an important one. According the UCAS application figures for 2013/14. The main problem is that students...
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