The current economic climate seems to be offering two options to people graduating this year: Job Centre or masters.
Students are taking to the latter choice in droves, which is good from the government’s point of view because it means they’ll all be going cap in hand to their parents or the banks to round...
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When a university student leaves education, most will have thousands of pounds worth of debt. Tuition fee loans and maintenance loans all add up to a pretty hefty sum of money. We will all, or the majority of us at least, be sent out into the world with a massive debt on our shoulders...
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Student debt. Two words that set the pulses racing, students screeching and politicians cowering. Every year university seems to get more expensive – mainly because it does. Tuition fees creep up, as the cap is subtly raised to account for inflation. Student accommodation becomes swankier and thus pricier. When you graduate you will almost...
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What does the whine of the apathetic student sound like? “Do we really care?”, they say looking up from Facebook. “A talk on what? Yeah, Gaza. The midfielder? What? Oh, the place. Yeah, yeah terrible, I think it was on the news”, they continue, slouching into their chair. “Can’t they just share? What about...
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The whole world knows the feeling. It can hit you in many forms, and it can affect your day in a variety of ways. The hangover: The curse of a good night out. This morning I experienced it in a way I had not for a while. For two precious seconds I felt good,...
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Student Politics is a serious business. Students want commitment, experience and innovativeness from their student presidents - failing that, they’ll settle for eye patches and cutlasses. This is why last year the position of Student Union President for the University of York was won by a pirate.
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A teacher who filmed her pupils in a secret documentary about the standards in state schools was yesterday suspended for a year by a General Teaching Panel.
The documentary itself (viewable here) was an expose of mismanagement and bad behaviour in failing (and 'successful') schools. For six months Alex Dolan filmed herself teaching and talking...
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Seeing as Oxbridge students haven't been up to anything offensive, racist or crass recently, the papers have got a bit bored and have headed north of the border to give some public schoolboys a hard time.
Students at the University of St. Andrews - well, some of the male ones - have a tradition of...
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Policy Exchange have released a report arguing that universities should be allowed to fail if in debt. Duncan Robinson argues that, although the principle is sound, the report misses the point.
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Young people are so often penalized simply for being young. Why not the same for old people, asks Alice-May Purkiss
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