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Professional and Career Development Loans – what’s the deal?

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:14:28 +0100

The future is looking bleak for this year’s graduates. With youth unemployment at a record high, the number of university leavers dashing in the direction of post-graduate study has risen sharply.

Top 10 tips for planning your gap year

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:11:35 +0100

Each year, approximately 230,000 young people in the UK plan their gap year. If you haven’t travelled abroad for a substantial amount of time it can be a daunting task.

Welcome to a new kind of student film festival

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:29:21 +0100

The camera pans across a forest, its colours washed artfully out, as a rifle shot pierces the calm above two cowering Japanese soldiers. The men, in note-perfect green WW2 combat fatigues crouch and converse in their native tongue, the start of a mournful little war parable.

Top 10 hot spots for student accommodation

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:01 +0100

Student accommodation is already big business and the number of international students heading to the UK is set to increase faster than anywhere else in the world outside of Australia.

Does Cambridge live up to its reputation?

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:37:01 +0100

This year’s THES world university reputation rankings are out and the University of Cambridge has been named the most highly regarded university in the UK. The rankings were compiled from a questionnaire answered by almost 31,000 academics from 149 institutions. But do the university’s students agree? Does Cambridge live up to its reputation? We put the question to Cambridge students to find out.

Top ten easiest meals for students (or anyone else for that matter) to cook

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:47:20 +0000

Admit it: students tend to subsist on kebab meat and snakebite most of the time.