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The Time to Talk with Students About Transfer is Now

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“If you want to transfer and get your bachelor’s, you have to make a plan. You have to make sure you’re getting your courses in sequence so you’re not in school forever and you’re not in huge amounts of debt.” - Community College Advisor Dr. Courtney Adkins One of the great benefits of attending a community college is the low-cost accrual of college credit that can be applied to a bachelor’s degree upon transfer to a four-year college or university.

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Future Nobel prizes rely on young people going to university, says science minister

The Guardian Higher Education

Peter Kyle, who applied to university three times, said Tory government’s ‘war’ on higher education was over Britain’s future Nobel prizes will come from encouraging young people into university rather than making sandwiches in high street chains, according to the science secretary Peter Kyle, who declared that the previous government’s “war on universities” had ended.

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How to afford university: from loans and grants to part-time work

The Guardian Higher Education

A university education is a major investment in yourself. It’s certainly not cheap, so it’s important to know what’s out there to reduce the financial strain How much do you think you need to enjoy university life to the fullest, including rent, food, clothes, social life, books and other equipment? Was your guess £18,632 a year outside London, and £21,774 in the capital?

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