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Giáo trình Unit 4: Higher Education and Finance - Tiếng Anh ngoại giao | Học viện Ngoại giao Việt Nam
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Uk University Students Wasted £ 1bn in a Year on Empty Accommodation By Rachel Hall February 17, 2021
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“We won’t be cash cows’: UK students plan the largest rent strike in 40 years By Tom Wall December 6, 2020
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under way or being organised on campuses,
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with activists at both Oxford and Sussex
residents tore down fences erected to
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prevent them moving freely around the
of students ahead of the new term. Other
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Matthew Lee from Rent Strike, a expecting rent cuts to cover the
grassroots group that is coordinating many
government’s staggered return, which will
of the campaigns, said students were fed
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are loads of students in dire situations … the rest of the academic year.
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colleges are so rich they absolutely have the
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means to make rent cuts and ensure staff are
been trapped on campuses so universities
not laid off,” said Laura Hone from Rent can collect rent and fees.”
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staff, but universities are not going to come
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operations, including hall rents, in the last
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in the university’s halls. “We are going
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provide further reductions, but students
president, Larissa Kennedy, said students
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because universities were heavily dependent
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working tirelessly to ensure that living on
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