KCL students left without water, and without information
Students in King’s College London accommodation were left with no running water after a power cut, and said they received little or no information from the university while it went on. Accommodation contracts oblige providers to keep essential services working; where they fail, students are usually entitled to compensation or a rent reduction, and the route to it is a formal complaint rather than an email to the warden. Finding student housing covers what a contract owes you.
How skills took over higher education
A short history of how “skills” became the frame through which governments judge universities — from the Dearing report onwards — and what was displaced by it. Useful background to every current argument: why subjects close on graduate earnings data, why the Lifelong Learning Entitlement is built around modules, and why employability is a measure rather than a by-product.
Sport as fundraising, and a way in for people who do not play
A round-up of charity fundraising by university sports clubs — 24-hour challenges, tournaments, city football initiatives. Worth knowing if you want the social side of a club without the commitment of competing: fundraising events take anyone, and they are how most people end up joining properly. Volunteering and RAG covers the rest.