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Student experience

August 2020

  • Waitress serving food to a woman at cafe terrace.

    Clearing 2020
    Will your student finances add up? The lowdown on loans, bursaries and jobs

  • Stylish woman Walking Against Blue Background

    Clearing 2020
    'It’s going to be a different experience': preparing for online learning at uni

  • Portrait of young woman on wheelchair

    Clearing 2020
    Zoom socials and specialist tech: starting uni online as a disabled student

  • Rice With Mixed Vegetables

    Clearing 2020
    'Start by frying onions' – and before long you'll have a curry: student cooking tips

  • Clearing 2020
    How am I going to meet anyone? Student societies and clubs race to go digital

  • Clearing 2020
    It's never too early to think about jobs: how students can get a foot in the door

  • Clearing 2020
    Decolonising the university: a new student's guide to campus activism

  • Clearing 2020
    'Do what you are passionate about': how I turned my hobby into a job

  • Clearing 2020
    Fixing racial inequality in universities shouldn't just be left to BAME students

    Afua Acheampong
  • Clearing 2020
    Not sure about uni any more? Here's what you need to think about

May 2020

  • Mike Taylor and his son Jonno

    We can't yet say what's on offer in September, UK universities tell freshers

  • Study break ... one in five students are planning to defer next year.

    Pass notes
    No sex, no booze: how the move online will take all the fun out of university

April 2020

  • A college professor holds online lecture from an empty classroom in Milan.

    No campus lectures and shut student bars: UK universities' £1bn struggle to move online

    A potential £1.2bn bill now faces the sector, but the real problem will be maintaining quality for students in a radically altered world this September

February 2020

  • Students at a university lecture.

    No room for you in lectures, top universities tell first-year students

    ‘Desperate’ institutions offer overflow rooms and YouTube live streams instead of a seat in front of a lecturer

January 2020

  • Brunel’s SS Great Britain in Bristol Harbour

    Bristol students told to study at SS Great Britain due to overcrowding

    Bristol University says students can use reading room at site of attraction to revise

September 2019

  • Chitra Ramaswamy with Rachel Christie, Murrin Duggan, Nina Smith and Lewis Hannah

    I returned to uni for freshers’ week 20 years after leaving. Here’s what has changed

  • Student falling asleep in a library

    Joy of learning has been lost to tests

  • Skydiving photo. Tandem.Tandem jump in the sky with clouds.

    Clearing 2019
    Leadership, organisation, resilience: how university societies boost your employability

    Extracurricular activities are more than just an add-on to your studies. The ‘soft skills’ you learn are prized by employers
  • Emma Dobson, 22, is a final-year psychology and sociology undergraduate at Brunel.

    Clearing 2019
    ‘Your disability isn’t a barrier’: what it's like to go to uni as a disabled person

    Universities are improving accessibility, but people with disabilities and special educational needs are still far less likely to enrol
  • 19640010 Barney hires-crop

    Clearing 2019
    'Young people mature a lot': why universities see a gap year as an asset

    Universities see it as an asset to take a year out
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