The daily digest of news and information for UK students.
The first in a week of analysis on commuter students argues transport policy is educational access policy: where buses do not run at the times teaching happens, the students affected are the ones…
An Amazon delivery driver has been jailed for three years after earning around £300,000 sitting exams in place of students at Liverpool John Moores University. Impersonation is the most serious…
University accommodation has discouraged students from moving out on the final Saturdays of term at short notice, which is the day most families can travel. Move-out arrangements are contractual:…
An inquest has heard that a 20-year-old Nottingham student who died by suicide had alleged a member of hospital staff behaved inappropriately towards her. Inquests establish facts rather than…
The Student Loans Company is writing to some Plan 2 customers about corrections to their loan balances. If you receive one of these letters, check the revised figure against your annual statements…
Ofqual has fined Cambridge English £875,000 over marking errors in IELTS, following last year’s revelation that a technical fault in the automated marking system led to score corrections for…
With MPs warning that the collapse of a university is now a real possibility, an examination of the protections finds them inadequate: no guarantee a student could finish their degree, no…
A survey at Warwick found more than 85 per cent of students worried by student debt, and half saying they had briefly considered withdrawing for financial reasons. Even allowing for one…
The first part of an analysis of how the admissions process magnifies inequality: predicted grades that misfire for disadvantaged applicants, personal statements that reward coaching, and a…
A ranking of first-year continuation across the 24 Russell Group universities puts Queen Mary highest, with 5.8 per cent of first years not continuing. Continuation rates are published for every…
