By Natalie Gil. With no national loan scheme for postgrads, aspiring master’s and PhD students must reach out to other funding sources. More...

By Victoria Bond. Dear White People doesn’t look like my university class. Real students have more trouble getting on the elevator of white privilege. More...

By Josie Long. Free education is not a crazy dream; some countries already have it. We should too, or we face a future where the study of literature or art becomes a luxury available to the rich alone. More...

By Lawrence Wakefield. One recent report claims today’s students are super healthy, another that they are piling on the pounds. Which is correct. More...

By Hannah Jane Parkinson. It’s the latest anonymous app after Whisper and Secret – but what is it, how does it work, and why are more than 1,000 US colleges active on it? More...

By Patrick Fullick, Geoffrey Alderman, Fiona Elsted and Stephen Gorard. Could noting an applicant’s social background help institutions find unfulfilled potential, or is positive discrimination an insult to working class high-achievers? Four academics debate. More...

By Jonathan Wolff. Paisley body warmers? Cornish pasty shoes? ‘Amusing’ cufflinks? Fortunately, Marx can explain our crimes of fashion. More...

By Patrick McGhee. The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has empowered students and academics. Tampering with it could jeopardise our autonomy. More...

By Natalie Gil. Chinese students who want to do a bachelor’s degrees in the UK have to do a foundation year first, so I chose Birmingham because the foundation year is organised by the university itself, whereas other universities have third-party providers. More...