Poppy Wood

1 month ago | msn.com | Poppy Wood

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1 month ago | yahoo.com | Poppy Wood

British students are expected to be barred from spending a year at American universities under Donald Trump’s sweeping visa ban. Tens of thousands of UK students are waiting to hear a decision on their funding applications for this year’s Turing Scheme, which allows them to enrol at universities around the world for up to a year. Those who applied to study at US colleges next year are expected to be turned down under White House plans, unless they have already received their visas.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Poppy Wood

British universities could still change the preferred destination for any Turing Scheme participants affected by the US ban. The Department for Education is responsible for Britain's study abroad programme, but individual universities must organise their students' applications. More than 3,100 British students were offered placements in the US last year as part of the Turing Scheme, which replaced the Erasmus+ scheme after the UK left the EU-wide programme in 2020.

1 month ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Poppy Wood

Danish-born Sandi Toksvig, who graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, is pictured at the university’s Christ’s College - Graham CopeKoga/Cambridge University/PASandi Toksvig is among the final 10 candidates in the race to become the next chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The comedian and former host of the Great British Bake Off is on the shortlist alongside an anti-Brexit campaigner and the former chief of BP to replace Lord Sainsbury of Turville.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Poppy Wood

Sandi Toksvig is among the final 10 candidates in the race to become the next chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The comedian and former host of the Great British Bake Off is on the shortlist alongside an anti-Brexit campaigner and the former chief of BP to replace Lord Sainsbury of Turville. Toksvig and Gina Miller, a business owner who led two successful legal challenges against the Government relating to Brexit, are the only two women on the shortlist.