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Unfortunately, I will be away both from home and my internet connection. As a result this blog will receive it’s last update until Tuesday 1st June 2010. However, when this comes there will be plenty more new to report. In the meantime three updates went...

TV Licensing are reminding students at the University of Gloucestershire they may be eligible for a refund assuming they no longer need their TV licence. Many students moving back home for the summer, from halls of residence or shared flats and houses will no longer...

The University of Gloucestershire has apparently improved its position in the first published University league table of the year. The University claims on it’s own website it went up eight positions to 62nd place out of 115 universities in the Good University Guide published in...

Below is the first keynote speech by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science at Birmingham University: “Good afternoon. There was only one place I could choose to give my first speech as a member of the new government and a minster in the Department...

It has been common knowledge for quite some time that the University of Goucestershire’s Pittville campus is up for sale and that the university are in bad financial shape. However this was further demonstrated this week with a peculiar sign. The campus had a rather...

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen. No surprises then if all the techies of the world decide to move (or push the UK government to do the same) From today every Finn will...

This time round the main points of the budget are: VAT Rises, Spending cuts all round, Corporation tax falls, Council Tax is frozen… You can download it here TAX VAT: Rate will rise from 17.5% to 20% from January 4, 2011. Personal income tax allowance:...

The coalition government has cancelled 12 projects totalling £2bn agreed to by the previous Labour government since the start of 2010. These include an £80m loan to Sheffield Forgemasters and new programmes for the young unemployed, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander told MPs....

ID card lobby group No2ID have got their hands on the final report into MyLifeMyID.org – the supposedly independent collector of “young people’s” views on ID cards. As a young person I think they suck! The documents reveal the site bought 50 million adverts on...

Councils in England are to get greater powers to stop developers building homes on gardens, the government says. Gardens, in the brownfield planning category used for ex-factory land, are to be reclassified to try to stop a practice known as “garden-grabbing”. Communities minister Gleg Clark...

Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of “difficult decisions” on pay, pensions and benefits as he set out the case for “painful” cuts ahead. He said dealing with the deficit would be “unavoidably tough” and affect “our whole way of life”. He said he would...