By . It's tough, it's exhausting and it'll leave you broke. But I'm glad I opted to do it, says Helen Crane, who did a postgrad degree. It happens at about this time every year. With dissertation deadlines looming, energy-drink dependence reaching critical levels and the library fast becoming a second home, the undergraduate's mind turns to an even more terrifying issue: "What am I going to do when it's all over?" More...
By Kim Thomas. Academics are suffering in silence from mental health problems such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders, exclusive findings from the Guardian's mental health survey of 2,500 academics has shown. Well over half (61%) of the respondents say that none of their colleagues are aware of their mental health problems, with only a slight difference in the figures for men and women. More...
By Michael Allen. John Servante has struggled for years with severe depression. Now he's using his blog to change students' attitudes to mental illness. A lot of students are pretty intolerant when it comes to mental health issues, says 22-year-old John Servante, who suffers from severe depression. More...
By Aditya Chakrabortty. Economics took a battering after the financial crisis, but faculties are refusing to teach alternative views. It's as if there's only one way to run an economy.
"I don't care who writes a nation's laws – or crafts its treatises – if I can write its economics textbooks," said Paul Samuelson. The Nobel prizewinner grasped that what was true of gadgets was also true for economies: he who produces the instruction manual defines how the object will be used, and to what ends. More...
By Chloe Spencer. We were surprised by their long school days, they admired our blazers and ties, writes pupil Chloe Spencer. Most days, most school pupils find themselves sitting in a classroom with the teacher presenting a lesson at the front. But recently at my school, a lesson appeared from half way across the globe. The teacher was trying a new educational technique: Skype. Our English class linked up with Chinese students from a language school on the coast of Qingdao in China. More...
By Anonymous academic. Collecting feedback on courses benefits neither staff nor students – often it's biased, sexist or simply unrealistic. Do students have something to teach academics? Student feedback, now a feature of most university courses, can be useful – but more often it's downright biased, sexist or simply unrealistic. More...
By . A vice-chancellor has made an impassioned defence of the benefits to universities of European Union membership amid the rise in popularity of Ukip. Dame Julia Goodfellow, vice-chancellor of the University of Kent, which bills itself as “the UK’s European university”, made the comments to mark Europe Day on 9 May. She said withdrawal from the EU would harm the UK’s research base and the economic benefits it draws from continental European students. More...
By . The British Council is to offer its first free online course for learning English on the UK massive open online course platform FutureLearn. It is the first course to be delivered by one of the “cultural partners” of the Open University-owned Mooc provider, rather than by a university. Other such partners include the British Library and the British Museum. More...
By . The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths. The Your Life campaign, launched by Chancellor George Osborne at the Science Museum on May 7, aims to contribute to the government’s aspiration to double the number of female engineering and technology undergraduates by 2030. More...
By . Business secretary Vince Cable has announced that companies are to recruit postgraduate students to help them break into overseas markets. The students will work during their vacations to help businesses overcome any language and cultural barriers they may face when exporting. More...
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