The Lifelong Learning Entitlement arrives in a year, largely unannounced
HEPI reports that only 12 per cent of adults know the Lifelong Learning Entitlement is coming, twelve months before it replaces student finance for new courses. It converts funding into an account worth four years of study that can be drawn down in modules across a working life — which changes who can afford to start, stop and return. Worth understanding before it applies to you. Student finance explained covers the current system.
“It makes me think I’m falling behind”: LinkedIn among students
Warwick students describe what LinkedIn does to a cohort — first years watching classmates announce internships, final years watching graduate offers accumulate, everyone measuring themselves against a feed that only carries good news. The platform is useful for finding work and corrosive as a comparison, and the two are hard to separate. Networking and LinkedIn for students covers using it deliberately.
Beating the winter blues in the worst weeks of the year
February in a student house is dark at four, cold, and three weeks from the first deadline. This is a practical piece on getting through it — light, routine, leaving the house, and the difference between a flat week and something that needs help. Student mental health covers where that line is.