The student loan scam that runs every September
About £2.6 billion in maintenance loans is paid out each September, and the Guardian sets out how scammers work the anxiety around it: messages about a delayed payment, a recalculated entitlement or an account problem, leading to a copy of the student finance login page. Your provider will not ask for your password, and payment dates are visible in your own account. Student finance explained covers how payments really work.
The fourteen people you will meet this week
A comic taxonomy of freshers week, and underneath the jokes a fair point: first impressions in week one are made on no sleep in an unfamiliar city, and almost nobody is the person they appear to be that week — including you. Making friends at university covers the part that comes after.