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Degree Misconducts: Cases Mishandled? Some report slow & unfair treatment from college
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Alex Hackett and John Ord Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editor The College’s system for the designation of academic misconducts has been called into question by both returning students and members of the Union Executive. Many Union Executive members commented at an apparent increase in the number of students being given the misconducts over the last year with many students not knowing why they had been given or how serious they are to their academic futures. Some students were only informed of their misconduct through their end-of-year results, without once being contacted by any member of the college administration beforehand. A student, Continued on P3>
Heythrop To Have One Of The Cheapest Fees in UL Joshua White News Editor The Office for Fair Access has given Heythrop College the “green light” to set its fees at £8,250 a year to charge undergraduate students for 2012. This is less than the national average of £8,678.36 and would place Heythrop as part of the 25% of British universities which aren’t setting the maximum £9,000 a year. The Governing Body holds that this is consistent with en-
couraging the study of theology and philosophy whilst maintaining the financial sustainability of the College. In the most recent Quality Assurance Agency Institutional Audit Report, Heythrop was commended for excellent support in both academic and pastoral areas – including one-on-one tuition. Tuition fees have been a subject of much interest in student politics and concern for all students. Gala Jackson-Coombs, incumbent President of HSU, has said “Although in my heart I wish the fees were much lower than this, I know the sacrifices the college have made in an attempt to keep their
courses as affordable as they possibly can during this difficult period. I am very proud to be a member of the cheapest college of the University of London, whose ethos has been and will always be that knowledge is the most important thing, and it should be accessible to all. I will continue to campaign for cheaper fees for students on a national level, as I do not agree with the government’s decision to increase them.” The University of Edinburgh is the most expensive in the country at £9,000 for each degree and a standard 4 years for a course amounts to £36,000 per degree. Comparatively, a degree from
Heythrop entails less than £25,000. The tuition fees at Heythrop are amongst the lowest in the University of London. The UK now has the third highest tuition fees in the developed world, with South Korea coming second and the United States as first according to the OECD. In public expenditure terms, the UK spends 0.7% of GDP on higher education, well below the OECD average of 1% and at a lower level than France (1.2% of GDP), Germany (0.9% of GDP), Canada (1.5% of GDP), Poland (0.9% of GDP) and Sweden (1.4% of GDP). Continued on P3>
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