Manx students to be vaccinated before they leave
Students from the Isle of Man heading to UK universities this autumn will be offered meningitis B vaccination before starting, following Jersey’s programme earlier this month. Both follow two outbreaks this year involving the B strain, which the MenACWY vaccine does not cover. There is still no equivalent offer for students in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. GP registration and staying healthy covers what you can ask for.
A 42-point gap between reputation and outcomes
QS employability rankings for 2027 show Durham scoring 94.7 for employer reputation and 52.7 for graduate employment outcomes — a 42-point gap between how employers rate a university and what its graduates actually do. Imperial and Oxbridge lead. It is the clearest demonstration that reputation and outcome are separate measures. Graduate jobs in the UK covers which matters.
Commuter success is not one story
The final part of this week’s analysis finds commuter students’ outcomes vary enormously by circumstance — distance, caring responsibilities, whether the timetable is compressed — and that treating them as a single group produces interventions that help almost nobody. Commuter students covers the practical end.
International students report feeling intimidated by flags and rhetoric
Delegates report international students increasingly associating the St George’s flag with hostility rather than ceremony, as anti-migrant rhetoric intensifies. Whatever the politics, the recruitment consequence is measurable — students choose destinations on how welcome they expect to feel, and the UK’s numbers are down 30 per cent.