First-year student numbers rise
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The number of people starting UK degrees has increased by 8.6%, official figures show.
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More people want to be students in the UK this year - with a 78.8% increase among the new EU states.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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The number of students able to study the Welsh Baccalaureate will rise to 18,000 from September.
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More new college students are expecting to take on jobs, borrow at least &#36;10,000 for their first year and receive that much from their families, according to a comprehensive annual survey of incoming freshmen released Monday.
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A number of leading public universities are drawing increasingly impressive and affluent students.
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Welsh students are outperforming the rest of the UK as they receive their A-level results.
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The number of students applying for UK universities rises 6%, despite the new top-up fees in England.
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Government exceeds target of increasing the number of pupils achieving at least five A* to C grades in their GCSEs.
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Government figures for the number of foreign nationals working in the UK since 1997 have increased from 800,000 to 1.1 million.
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This autumn, Nottingham University put the theory into practice, as the first students enrolled at its "branch campus" in Ningbo in China.
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With a shake-up of university fees set to be introduced, figures reveal how much students are currently paying.
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THE hiring intentions of Welsh employers for the first quarter of 2005 are more positive than the UK average, research from Manpower showed yesterday.
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As thousands of North-east students take part i
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The stresses of starting school begin months earlier than expected, research suggests.
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Almost 10,000 teenagers are to receive their first payments for staying on at school this month.
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More than 25,000 spectators, mostly young people, attended the first day of the Winter X Games.