Treating a student job as a job, without letting it become one
A piece on the part-time work most students do — how much to invest in it, when the hours start costing more than the money is worth, and why the transferable skills line on a CV is true but overstated. The practical rule is the one about timetables: a job that cannot flex around assessment weeks will cost a grade. Budgeting covers making the numbers work.
Six elements of positive mental wellbeing
A study involving the University of York identifies six components of positive mental wellbeing, rather than defining it as the absence of illness. It matters for how universities design support: services built to treat crisis do nothing for the much larger group who are functioning and flat. Student mental health covers what is available.
A campus generating its own electricity
Lancaster’s solar farm now frequently generates all the university’s electricity, part of its route to net zero. Energy is one of the largest costs universities face, and one they have been passing into rents — so a university that owns its own generation has an argument to answer when it raises accommodation charges.