What changes for student tenants from today
The Renters’ Rights Act takes effect across England today. Fixed-term tenancies become rolling ones, no-fault eviction ends, and landlords cannot demand more than one month’s rent in advance — but the student exemption means most purpose-built and shared student lets still operate on their own terms. The change that matters most: you cannot be locked into a twelve-month contract signed a year ahead. Finding student housing covers what to check.
A $10,000 AI degree, backed by TED and the exam boards
A new institute launched by TED, the testing organisation ETS and Khan Academy is offering an AI-focused degree for around $10,000, developed with large technology companies. Cheap online degrees have a mixed record, and the questions to ask are the standard ones: who awards the qualification, is it recognised by employers in the UK, and what happens if the provider stops.
How tuition fees got here
A student history of UK tuition fees, from their introduction to the present freeze. Worth reading if the current argument feels like it came from nowhere: every element of it — the threshold, the interest, the review — has a precedent in the last thirty years.