Starmer joins a mock Seder with Jewish student leaders
The Prime Minister joined the Union of Jewish Students and Jewish student leaders in Birmingham for a mock Seder and a roundtable, in a year when campus tension over the Middle East has been constant. Whatever is said at events of this kind, the substance for students sits in university policy: what protest rules permit, how harassment complaints are handled, and what the regulator now requires.
A university project targeting online abuse of women
Aston University is working to expose online abuse of women in places it usually goes unrecorded. Universities are among the few institutions that can research this at scale, and the findings feed into how their own harassment policies are written — which is what students experience directly when reporting something.
A student headlining his first show
A University of Manchester student plays his first headline gig, talking about influences and songwriting. Student music venues and union nights are where this starts, they book student acts constantly, and the route in is usually an email rather than an audition. Joining societies covers finding the people already doing it.