The daily digest of news and information for UK students.
This applies in England. The Student Loans Company updated its published timescales on 28 September: apply this week for full-time or part-time undergraduate finance, or for the Childcare Grant,…
This is the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Around 3,000 University and College Union members have begun five weeks of strike action, running until 30 October, over £140 million of savings,…
Turnitin, the submission checker almost every UK university runs your work through, has proposed a licence change that would ask students and staff to agree to their submissions being used,…
The Russell Group has asked the chancellor, John Healey, to abandon the planned £925 levy on every international student a university recruits, saying it would cost the sector nearly £500 million…
West Yorkshire police say organised crime groups are using Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook to recruit students as parcel mules, paying them to take in packages that may hold drugs,…
UKHSA and Oxford researchers have explained March’s outbreak in Kent, traced to one Canterbury nightclub over a weekend: 21 people were diagnosed in a week, all needed hospital treatment, nine…
The Student Loans Company paid £0.8 billion in first-term maintenance loans into accounts across the UK on Monday 21 September, and expects to pay £3 billion in maintenance funding by the end of…
The government has said it will be more transparent with prospective students in England, after a Treasury Committee report in July found loans had been mis-sold on a £200bn scale: the Department…
Students at Marketgait Apartments in Dundee are finding somewhere else to live as term starts, after the owner went into administration in July having failed to repay a £5.7m loan. Rooms had been…
Staff at the University of Edinburgh will strike for 25 days between 28 September and 30 October, covering Welcome Week and the first month of teaching. UCU Scotland called the action after the…
