The official figures on international students, and where the growth went
Higher Education Statistics Agency data shows 685,565 international students in the UK in 2024/25, with international postgraduate enrolments down 10 per cent while transnational education — UK degrees taught overseas — surged. It is the statistical confirmation of the pattern behind this month’s strategy, this month’s deficits and this month’s redundancies.
Scotland orders a sector-wide review of assessment after a student’s death
Following the death of a student, a report has identified failures in academic governance at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland has ordered a review of assessment practice across its sector. The questions it raises apply everywhere: what happens when a student misses an assessment, who checks why, and whether anyone acts before the resit.
“This year has been awful”: walking home in Nottingham
A Nottingham Trent student has described not feeling safe walking back from the library at night, posting a video with her keys between her fingers. Universities can arrange late-night transport, safe walking routes and campus security escorts, and most do not advertise them. Worth finding out what yours runs before you need it. Going out safely covers getting home.
£11m to test a preventative approach to student mental health
The University of Exeter has joined an £11 million research programme aiming to shift student mental health support from crisis response towards prevention. Research programmes change provision slowly, and the near-term value is the evidence they produce about what universities should be doing — which students’ unions then use in negotiations. Student mental health covers what is available now.