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By Jade Grassby. With almost half of recent graduates in jobs which do not require a degree, you may be facing a low-skilled job when you graduate. More...

By Danny Dorling. Only the super-rich benefit from the fees and loans system, in which 17-year-olds must sign up for massive debts in adulthood. More...

By Anna Fazackerley. Members of the Russell Group have offered free flights, film passes and even bedding to woo high-achievers. More...

By Melissa Terras. A survey shows the monograph is still central for shaping and sharing scholarship in the humanities. Let’s now make them open access. More...

By Paul Mason. British life can be confusing for new arrivals, so here is my advice. Step one: buy a late-night snack. You have survived induction. You have a pile of leaflets, a place to stay and a smartphone. You are a foreign student arriving at a university in England. There are half a million of you: the statistics say you are most likely to be Chinese, but the following advice applies to everyone. To start with, let’s state clearly what all those leaflets don’t. Your fees are single-handedly saving the British university system. By paying, for example, £18,000 a year to study BEng chemical engineering, you are handing over twice the amount a UK student would pay. More...

By Carla Kweifio-Okai. Ahead of the international day of the girl, we want your thoughts on what could help women and girls to know their rights. More...

By Laura Maw. Restrictive modules and option blocks are preventing students from studying their preferred topics. The higher you climb the education ladder, the more freedom you have over the topics you study. Right?
Well, not necessarily. More...

By Claire Shaw. Academic staff can play a central role in identifying struggling students and encouraging them to access support. Here are 10 things to bear in mind. More...

By Anonymous. A report this week has exposed online businesses who supply ‘research guides’ for students. Here, a writer explains what it’s like to churn out essays on demand. More...

By Kim Thomas. Investing heavily in research and science has helped Switzerland move up the rankings. But as Kim Thomas explains, rankings don’t tell the whole story. More...