News - January, 2008

You may be fed up of the British winter weather and be dreaming of sunnier climes, but students around the world have just proclaimed the UK as the most popular place to study overseas.

Today’s university applicants have painted a worrying picture of the challenges facing humanity, even within their own lifetimes.

Are you finding academia a struggle? Grades slipping a bit? Perhaps the news that poor academic performers get the most sex will cheer you up slightly.

Students will be ‘blackmailed’ into carrying ID cards, it has been claimed.

The threat of violent extremism on university campuses is ‘serious’, according to the government, which is urging academics to help tackle it.

Students are putting away their backpacks and travel brochures in favour of saving up for houses.

Are you a student? Are you funny? Actually funny? If so the Edinburgh Festival may await you, as a quest to find the UK’s best student comedian gets underway.

Top-up fees are causing a fall in the number of students attending university, it has been claimed.

Pictures of festive drunken excesses or risqué status updates on your Facebook profile might be damaging your chances of getting into a top university.

The choice of what A-levels you take may be just as important as the grades you get, new plans from Cambridge and the London School of Economics suggest.

Young people whose family has never been to university are being urged by the government to ‘be the first to go’.

Men drink more than women, except when everyone’s in fancy dress. That’s the rather bizarre conclusion of a recent study into student parties.