In January, the Conservatives unveiled plans to deny graduates with a third-class degree funding to train as teachers, effectively barring anyone with less than a 2 2 from the profession.
The first employees with places on the course – the UK's first honours degree funded by a restaurant chain – have begun their studies in conjunction with De Montfort University in Leicester.
Mr Denham said he could not afford to consult the sector before every decision, but the Higher Education Funding Council for England would now consult on the plans to cut second degree funding.
Research Universities exhorts universities to "improve the capacity of graduate programs to attract talented students by addressing issues such as attrition rates, time to degree, funding, and alignment with both student career opportunities and national interests".
As an administrator at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), a minority-serving institution, I've been fortunate to be PI on a grant entitled "Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree," funded by the Minority Opportunities in Research (MORE), a program of the National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS), one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Reforming Graduate Education: Improve the capacity of graduate programs to attract talented students by addressing issues such as attrition rates, time-to-degree, funding, and alignment with both student career opportunities and national interests.
In November, for example, the U.S. Justice Department threatened to sue Southern Illinois University for running three such programs, one a "bridges" effort for underrepresented minorities pursuing science degrees, funded by the National Science Foundation ( Science, 25 November 2005, p. 1263).
To a degree, hedge funds are hostage to their stated investment strategies, and investors judge them accordingly.
For those of you who may not know, our "Social Promise" is simple: For every degree fully funded on the CommonBond platform, we fund the education of a student in need for a full year.
CommonBond also adheres to a social mission, which puts it into a growing class of startups that have built "social good" into their company philosophy, like Warby Parker and TOMS, for example, by funding the education of one student in need (for a full year) for every degree fully funded on its platform.
