“Watching out for spiking is just normal”
Leeds students describe the precautions that have become routine on a night out — covering drinks, going in groups, watching each other’s glasses — and the resignation in treating that as ordinary. Venues are required to have policies; knowing where the welfare staff are in a club is more useful than any of the gadgets sold for this. Going out safely covers what to do if it happens to someone with you.
Five ways to get through freshers week without spending the loan
Your maintenance loan has just landed and the week is designed to extract it — wristbands, club entry, taxis, a wardrobe. This is a guide to doing the week for less, and the honest point underneath it is that the expensive version is not the better one. Budgeting covers the eleven weeks after it.
Youth unemployment passes a million, and experience is what separates applicants
With youth unemployment above one million and entry-level vacancies falling, Leeds universities are pointing students towards the thing that now differentiates a graduate application: demonstrable experience, whether a placement, a part-time job or a society role with something real attached to it. Start in first year, not final year. Internships and work experience covers how.
Cambridge sets out a review after Jason Arday’s death
Cambridge’s vice-chancellor, Deborah Prentice, has written to students acknowledging the “pain, sadness and anger” following the death of Professor Jason Arday and setting out a two-stage independent review. Students who want to contribute to a review of this kind can usually do so through their students’ union, which is how student evidence reaches it.