An hour each way, and a day spent waiting
The Guardian follows students living at home for financial reasons, including one at UCL who spends much of her day waiting between classes because home is more than an hour away. It is the human version of this week’s commuter analysis: the cost saved on rent is paid in time, and in the parts of university that happen between the teaching. Commuter students covers making it work.
What we assume about students, and what is now true
A response to this year’s academic experience survey argues the sector still designs for a student who moves away at eighteen, does not work, and has no caring responsibilities — a description that now fits a minority. The assumptions matter because timetables, support services and societies are all built on them.
A guide to the university summer
On the romanticised summer and the real one: three months without structure, usually with paid work in it, and the expectation that it should have been transformative. The sane version is one thing planned and the rest left alone. Graduation and life after university covers the last one.