A “handful” of masters modules in the Lifelong Learning Entitlement
A dean of students argues that including only a small number of Level 7 — masters level — modules in the Lifelong Learning Entitlement wastes its main opportunity: letting people top up qualifications a module at a time rather than committing to a full postgraduate course and its fees. As drafted, the flexibility mostly stops at undergraduate level. Is a masters worth it covers the current options.
Sustainability week, and the parts of it that save money
A university sustainability week produces the usual advice, and the useful half of it is also the cheap half: second-hand everything, walking or cycling instead of the bus, heating a room rather than a house, and the campus repair schemes that fix a bike or a laptop for nothing. Budgeting covers the rest.