Was it good for you? The Times have published the holy grail of university rankings. Not for them the hilarious inaccuracy of the Guardian’s league tables – such as ranking Bangor fifth for Maths, despite it not having a maths department – the Good University Guide is generally regarded as the most trustworthy and...
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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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Facts are intensely annoying. They always seem to get in the way of a good story. For instance, take the 'news' that Hermione Granger herself (well, Emma Watson), has got into Yale University in the USA.
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Entrapment is a horrible thing. Whether it’s US snipers using ‘bait’ to give themselves an excuse to shoot Iraqis, or just a really bad movie, it should be avoided in all forms. But, according to The Times, this is exactly what the government is doing to the UK’s universities: “Universities will now have their...
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