How do essay mill websites portray the Higher Education experience?
Essay mill websites facilitate the outsourcing of assignments to internet services - a process known as 'contract cheating'. The rhetoric used to hook students...
What makes a good freshers’ week?
Freshers’ week is often touted as being extremely important for students’ social wellbeing at university, but determining what constitutes a good welcoming week is...
How can we reduce sedentary behaviour in university students?
Students are vulnerable to excess sedentary time whilst at university; this is motivating scholars to develop new ways of encouraging students to get moving...
Students want more action on climate change from higher education
Students consider climate change to be the most urgent challenge facing society in 2021.
Students' Views
A recent survey by Unite Students has unearthed strong views...
Scrapping BTECs could undermine inclusivity of UK universities
The Department for Education is considering plans to introduce a new binary education system that defunds BTECs and other ‘applied general qualifications’.
Unnecessary risk
DfE conducted...
How student accommodation can influence mental health and wellbeing
Due to growing concerns surrounding student mental health and wellbeing, there has been a shift in focus towards student accommodation providers and what they...
How should we measure student wellbeing?
A 2020 research paper by Alyson Dodd et al. has called for a standardised measurement of wellbeing for university students.
This measurement will represent an...
Universities across the UK are starting to implement new ways to tackle the growing...
15 months of online learning and social isolation has left many students suffering from poor mental health. Kasia Delgado quotes statistics claiming that almost...
UK universities fear a reduction in the number of Chinese pupils studying abroad post-2022
UK universities have long been over reliant on China as the main provider of international students, but studies into China’s education trends suggest that...
NSW and Queensland join push for purpose-built quarantine hubs
NSW and Queensland join Victoria in asking for purpose-built quarantine hubs to accommodate international students, who contribute significantly to local and national economies.
A new...
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