How students are getting screwed…again
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Generation screwed. A hoard of students tens of thousands of pounds in debt, but with nothing to show for it. We speak to students who've been affected and hear from the university and college union boss, Jo Grady- who backs the striking staff.
And, the Tory internecine warfare continues after a shambolic selection process to pick their candidate for London mayor. But do they still have a pathway to win next year's election with Trump-fan Susan Hall if Jeremy Corbyn throws his hat in the ring?
And... some marriage advice for Lewis ahead of his wedding.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | At the end of June, I left university without the history degree I've been working towards the last three years. |
| 0:18.7 | Because my degree is weighted solely towards final year, |
| 0:21.3 | it means that I've left university with nothing to show for it. No marks, absolutely nothing. |
| 0:27.4 | This is the class of 23. The graduates who have emerged at the most benighted time, I would think, |
| 0:35.0 | to be a student, because you've gone through COVID. |
| 0:39.7 | You've had a lot of your lectures online. |
| 0:42.6 | You've lived your university life at home. |
| 0:45.7 | You've done your finals and you haven't got a degree certificate at the end of it |
| 0:50.5 | because the university lecturers union has not been marking papers as part of their |
| 0:56.0 | industrial dispute with the college and university authorities. This dispute has been going on for |
| 1:02.6 | months and it hasn't been reported that much but it is now coming to a head because of course |
| 1:07.7 | we are at the time of the year where students who've just left university |
| 1:12.0 | should be receiving their grades, their marks and happily going on to their master's courses, |
| 1:18.0 | going on to their graduate jobs, and yet thousands and thousands and thousands of them cannot |
| 1:24.5 | because of this marking boycott. So on today's show, we're going to be delving |
| 1:28.3 | into this situation and asking when it might be resolved on what wider effect on the economy, |
| 1:34.8 | yes, the economy it might have. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:41.4 | The news agents. It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:45.6 | And these students that are kind of emerging from their ivory towers of academe are just doing so as well. |
| 1:54.0 | With tens of thousands of pounds in debt, and what they have to show for it is a degree certificate that sort of says |
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