October 2010 | Oxbridge Essays

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Are Britain’s Students Apathetic?

27th October 2010

The past week has seen English and French teenagers faced with the huge implications of new government policies, yet their reaction has been markedly different. Whilst French students have leapt to their own defence, organising political rallies and government protests, English students have once again showed their complete political apathy, failing to form an active community or mount any real demonstrations at all, in spite of the enormous threat of hugely raised tuition fees.
Tuition Fees: The Browne Review

21st October 2010

The long-awaited Browne Review of Higher Education and Student Funding has finally been published. We examine its implications, both short-term in terms of crippling financial strain for students and long-term for the country at large. The government may be desperately trying to solve an enormous debt problem, but fears are rising that adopting Browne’s recommendations would create much deeper issues for our society and economy in the long-run.
The Tuition Fees Fiasco

05th October 2010

As the coalition government and the country wait for the publication of Lord Browne’s imminent report on higher education funding, the mood is one of tense expectation and anxiety. The signals from the government over the past months have not only indicated a grim resolve to hike tuition fees to dizzying levels, but also the rumbling tremors of an approaching storm between the uneasy members of the allied governing parties. But what will the results mean for students, for education, and for our society at large?