Graduates describe the market they are entering
Yorkshire’s 2026 graduates talk about student debt and competition for jobs, in a week when polling found a third of the public no longer believe a degree is worth it. The accounts are consistent: applications in the hundreds, rejections without feedback, and a gap between what the degree cost and what it has opened. How to write a graduate CV covers the part you can control.
Where students rate their own university worst
A ranking of Russell Group universities by student satisfaction for 2027 puts Sheffield top on how students rate it despite ranking 13th overall — which is the reason to read satisfaction and prestige separately. Satisfaction is published by course as well, and the course figure is the one that describes what your three years will feel like.
Another guide, another set of positions
Lancaster has placed in the top ten of the Complete University Guide’s 2027 rankings and retained first place in north-west England. Three major guides now publish within weeks of each other, each weighting entry standards, satisfaction and graduate outcomes differently — so a university can be top ten in one and outside the top twenty in another.
Buildings shape behaviour more than rules do
Research examines how the physical design of universities shapes what students do — where people linger, whether strangers speak, whether a space invites an hour of work or ten minutes. It explains why some libraries are full and others empty, and why the best study space is rarely the one with the most desks. Where to study beyond the library covers finding yours.