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  • 1 week ago | msn.com | Poppy Wood

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  • 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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.

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Poppy Wood @poppyeh
8 May 25

RT @bienbutcher: These deficits come with the grimmer reality that universities are laying off more and more staff - easily the biggest exp…

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Poppy Wood @poppyeh
8 May 25

RT @bienbutcher: 🧑‍🎓 We've been through the annual reports and the numbers are shocking - 61 universities recorded a deficit last year - 43…

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7 May 25

Excl: A record number of UK universities are in deficit, as fears intensify that one or more could soon go bust 61 recorded deficits relative to their incomes last year, up from 44 the year before With @bienbutcher https://t.co/Fa517WHcnj