A student block approved near a city campus
Councillors have approved a controversial five-storey, 109-bed student block near Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus. Purpose-built schemes reduce pressure on shared houses two or three years after approval, which is why the arguments about them are always between current residents and future students who cannot attend the meeting. Finding student housing covers the market now.
A national roundtable on graduate jobs
The University of Exeter has hosted a national roundtable on improving graduate job prospects, in a year when entry-level vacancies have fallen and careers services have been told their employability claims lack credibility. Whether anything comes of it, the useful signal is that universities are now treating the graduate market as a problem they own. Graduate jobs in the UK covers the current market.
Universities repositioned around lifelong learning
An argument that the Lifelong Learning Entitlement requires universities to rebuild admissions, credit systems and timetables around people studying in modules across a working life — and that most are not close to ready, nine months out. If you are planning to study part-time from 2027, ask how the institution will handle credit.