THE ALTERNATIVE 2009 OBITUARY
THE MANY USES OF BEER
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ISSUE 240
TUESDAY 23rd FEBRUARY 2010
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STUDENTS WOULD PAY MORE FOR DEGREE A recent student survey has shown over 50% of students are willing to pay up to £5,000 for a degree. Concrete survey mirrors national survey’s result with 8% saying they were willing to pay up to £7,000. Andrea Stromskag
also did not see themselves
genuinely variable fees would It is clear that students from
A recent survey conducted by the Opinionpanel research group shows that over half of students are willing to pay
a small factor for the answers women and those from some surprising eight percent said they were willing to pay over
fee paying schools and 54%
to answer if paying fees up to
found that the most important driver in encouraging students to pay more for fees was the
them from going to university a similar survey on students answered that this would would consider paying more in fees for their degrees if it meant that they would receive a higher salary once they
to the survey saying that would have stopped them
The results from the UEA
answered that they would be variable fees depending on the One in four UEA students
recorded
and
considered
is valuable evidence of how
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ZIMBABWEAN CRICKETER HENRY OLONGA COACHES UEA CRICKET TEAM FOR FULL ARTICLE TURN TO PAGE 4
UEA SCORES HIGHLY AMONGST ITS CRUMBLING COMPETITORS Chris King such as the London School of 3% of UEA buildings scoring a In a survey recently compiled by the Higher
41% of its lecture theatres and buildings have been deemed buildings
state of buildings at UEA has compared favourably with
at
UEA
were
with 78% achieving a ‘B’ purpose” achieving the same grade
Laura Smith
by
university
of the report include such
buildings termed inoperable
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