If you’re heading off to uni this week, chances are you’ve already been told to join societies and drink in moderation. But here are some not-so-obvious tips on how to make the most of your first year
Sep 17, 2025
The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage their brains
Sep 16, 2025
Students are taking on more paid work than ever before, with less and less to show for it, and every aspect of university life is suffering as a result
Aug 12, 2025
Over 40 Palestinian students with UK scholarships are trapped in Gaza by visa barriers. Some have been killed while waiting – here’s how to demand urgent action
Aug 11, 2025
In conversation with convenor Dr Timothy Wellbeck, we go inside the Kendrick Lamar university course on offer at Temple University this autumn, covering his discography, the Drake beef and the wider sociological significance of hip-hop
Jul 22, 2025
More than half of students now use generative AI to help with their assessments – but experts are warning that overrelying on technology can stunt critical thinking, memory and language skills
Jul 09, 2025
Following their 2025 graduate show, we talk to students from Italy’s most famous fashion school to find out how they really feel about where fashion is heading
Jun 19, 2025
The US has paused student visa interviews in a move that targets pro-Palestinian activism and threatens international education
May 28, 2025
Following months of student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, the University of Cambridge’s largest college has said it will no longer invest in arms companies
May 21, 2025
As part of a new post-Brexit deal, the UK and EU have agreed to co-operate on a ‘youth experience scheme’ and bring back Erasmus
May 20, 2025
‘Universities are supposed to be proponents of free speech, thought and civil dissent, yet they’re unabashedly quashing it. What’s the point?’
Apr 24, 2025
‘It looked like a kidnapping,’ said one onlooker, after Ozturk – a student at Tufts University in Massachusetts – was ambushed by plain-clothes officers. Here’s everything you need to know about what happened
Mar 27, 2025
The university’s vice president for communications said show creators went ‘too far’ in using the Duke logo in one ‘troubling’ scene
Access to higher education has drastically improved over the last 100 years – but, as working-class students have found, being admitted to a university is not the same as being truly accepted into it
Nov 14, 2024
TLDR: dump your partner and shag your friends
Sep 23, 2024
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