NEW 📣 Going to university transforms lives. Our new campaign ‘100 Faces, First in my Family’ platforms the voices of people who were the first in their family to go to university. 🎉 Hear their stories. 🎤 #100Faces 100faces.universitiesuk.ac.uk
@UniversitiesUK Do your collegues at RG Unis still wave The Guardian at soon to be graduates "Coming from the kind od school you went to you MUST be able to afford to do a PhD!"? [I went to state schools and did A levels in FE!]🔗👩🎓🔗👨🎓
@UniversitiesUK Thanks to Universities UK for featuring me as one of their #100Faces in the campaign #MalikAlNasir @Catz_Cambridge
@UniversitiesUK @theJeremyVine It really does, start debt free…..finished riddled with debt and no guarantee of a decent job at end of it….what a fantastic situation 🥴🥴
@UniversitiesUK Yeah - it saddles you with an enormous amount of debt.
@UniversitiesUK I was also first to study at University - part-time whilst working in the NHS. It opened my eyes to lots of opportunities. I look back now and say “who would have thought it?”
@UniversitiesUK @theJeremyVine We need to bear in mind that universities are businesses & students are customers who all end up with huge debts & many with questionable degrees? It looks like a racket.
@UniversitiesUK @theJeremyVine You need to shout louder!! Both my kids 19 & 17 have chosen not go to university, can’t see the merit, expensive and in their eyes a diminishing return.
@UniversitiesUK Delighted to be featured as one of the 100 faces. Couldn’t agree more that university changes lives! 👩🎓