Durham Offers Incoming Students £5,000 to Defer
Durham University sent out emails to those students who’ve accepted places this year, offering them £5,000 to defer until 2022/23. The emails read as follows:
Hi [name withheld],
We’d like to offer you a further opportunity to defer starting your studies at Durham until the academic year 2022/23. If you make a successful request to defer we will give you a payment of £5,000.
This new offer is to help us manage the number of students who want to study at Durham, having excelled in their A-levels and other level 3 qualifications this year.
We can’t guarantee all deferral requests will be successful. Places are limited, and decisions will be based on balancing the cohort.
As the email says, Durham has accepted too many students this year – not because they’ve “excelled” but because 44.8% of A-levels were awarded A*/A this year, up from 38.5% last year and 25.2% (in England) in 2019. If Durham calibrated its offers based on last year’s results, more students than anticipated will have met the requirements, hence the glut.
This follows news earlier this month that Leeds was offering law and business students £10,000 and free accommodation to defer their places.
Yet more evidence that the disruption of the last 18 months has wreaked havoc in our education system – although for once the victims of this disruption are being offered financial compensation.
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Do the universities want this to go on for ever?
On second thoughts, do I want an answer?
Obviously, they need to raise their standards because remote learning has been so successful that all the kids are just sooo much smarter this year!
This year’s students will need a remedial year to make up for the A level farce.
I’m even more concerned with those poor children beginning their “education”.
Sounds like the real victims of this farce will be those students doing their A levels next summer, as there will be fewer university places available than normal. Then again, they may be better off not going to uni at all.
Imagine last years students/prisoners from Leeds having to hear that its University is offering £10k and free accommodation not to come.
All common sense signals have gone apart from those pointing to a 4th turning.
Nice to see my old college. I remember drinking a malt whisky in the student bar there bottled before the Second World War. That would have been in the early eighties.
An ancient, illustrious university officially addresses its prospective students: “Hi ——-,”
We to start up a ‘parallel’ society including education facilities. Great video (Mass Psychosis) – link via my website: FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. – Updated information, resources and useful links: https://www.LCAHub.org/
Superficial to its core.
Probably can’t get in due to plane loads of Chinese students.
Top universities will charter flights for Chinese students to get to the UK next month as travel restrictions continue.
Universities are worried Covid restrictions could undermine their income from overseas students.
More than 50 UK universities have chartered four flights to bring in 1,200 Chinese students ahead of a new university term next month, The Sunday Times has reported.
I would take the money and get my degree once all this nonsense is out in the open and these criminals are facing a conviction for crimes against humanity.
Even better, for appropriate degree courses, go with the Open University and save £4,000 a year on fees.
Fsck all the parasitic box-checking entities milking this for all it’s worth.
Oh and by the way:
i) if your job can be done from home, that home could be anywhere, maybe India.
ii) your pension fund probably still has investments in commercial property, so don’t whine when they both collapse.
iii) if you want to work at home avoiding the travelling costs you were previously facing, you won’t object to you salary being reduced appropriately, will you?