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Cardiff students’ union bans chinos and blue shirts after violence

The Guardian Higher Education

Incident at university clubbing night leads to preppy staples being barred from union premises They may have been preppy fashion championed by Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein but chinos and blue shirts have now been banned by Cardiff University studentsunion after being associated with a violent incident at a nightclub.

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Following program cuts, new West Virginia University student union says fight is not over

University Business

Led by many first-generation college students and those receiving financial aid in the state with the fewest college graduates, members say they want to usher in a new era of student involvement in university political life. The movement is part of a wave of student organizing at U.S. Read more from ABC News.

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Indian students’ union urges UK to retain graduate visas

The Guardian Higher Education

Chair of union for Indian students and alumni says visa scheme is vital for attracting high-paying international students to UK Indian students and alumni in the UK have urged the British prime minister to retain graduate visas, rejecting claims they are little more than “Deliveroo visas” that allow overseas students access to low-paid jobs in the (..)

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Home Office efforts to stop abuse of care worker visa system inadequate, leading to ‘shocking’ abuse, says watchdog – politics live

The Guardian Higher Education

Former chief inspector of borders says Home Office does not appear to have identified any lessons from ‘this debacle’ In interviews this morning Gillian Keegan , the education secretary, admitted that special educational needs provision was in crisis, Ben Quinn reports.

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University of Melbourne vice-chancellor calls for free university education

The Guardian Higher Education

Speaking to students and staff on Tuesday evening, Maskell said it had become “sadly fashionable” to assume students taking out loans to pay for university was a “natural order of things”, rather than a policy decision.

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One in five students at top universities consider dropping out over cost of living

The Guardian Higher Education

A quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, a new Russell Group StudentsUnions study reveals One in five students at Russell Group universities are considering dropping out because of the cost of living crisis, and a quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, the Observer can reveal.

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‘Left without a voice’: October general election could leave students in UK unable to vote

The Guardian Higher Education

Universities fear an autumn election will not leave undergraduates enough time to register Hundreds of thousands of students could be left unable to vote if the government calls an October general election, because there may not be enough time to register them, universities and student unions have warned.