“Priced out”: what the union candidates all agree on
Candidates in Lancaster’s students’ union elections agree on one thing across every manifesto — that students are being priced out of university life, from society membership to nights out to the cost of attending at all. One candidate criticised what the university spends on things students do not care about. Union officers sit on the committees where those budgets are set, which is why these elections matter more than turnout suggests.
Higher education on the ballot in Wales
A vice-chancellor sets out what is at stake for Welsh universities at the Senedd elections: a funding settlement that has not kept pace, institutions in deficit, and parties yet to commit to a model. Welsh students have their own fees, grants and loans, so what is decided in May applies to them specifically. Student finance explained covers the differences across the UK.
A students’ union reopens after two and a half years
Edinburgh’s Teviot has reopened following a renovation lasting two and a half years. Student unions are the cheapest social space in most university cities, and losing one for that long reshapes where a cohort spends its time — which is why the reopening matters more than a building story usually would. Students’ union explained covers what else they run.