3 h. ago University student faced quitting course after staff member sublet room she didn't own

'This has really, really messed up his final year off university because of absolutely no fault of his own'

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4 d. ago Trump says he knows what MAGA wants better than anybody after backlash over Chinese student visas

Donald Trump has responded to backlash over the increased enrolment of Chinese students at US colleges, which has been critiqued by some as not a “pro-MAGA position”.

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4 d. ago Returned after 115 years... the plate stolen from Cambridge University college by mischievous student

The plate was pilfered from Gonville & Caius College by law and history student Gordon Stewart Wimbush after he joined the university in 1908

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5 d. ago Murderer has gruesome decision to make 35 years after raping and killing student

Harold Wayne Nichols was given the death penalty in 1990 after raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga State University in Tennessee

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1 week ago Greta Thunberg backs UK university student who fears for his safety after visa sponsorship revoked

Pro-Palestinian activist Usama Ghanem has been indefinitely suspended from King’s College London. Jeremy Corbyn, Your Party co-leader, labelled the move ‘deeply disturbing’

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1 week ago Meet the British shot put champion doubling up as a bobsleigh pilot with an eye on Milan 2026

Having won her third British shot put title in four seasons in the summer, Adele Nicoll also has a Winter Olympic dream – and admits she’s ‘terrible for wanting to do everything’Walking through the University of Bath’s vast sports complex to Britain’s only bobsleigh push-start track, a momentary silence is broken by the thwack of a ball and hearty cheers from excited adolescent spectators.It is the first Wednesday afternoon – when inter-university sport takes centre stage – of the academic year, and Adele Nicoll is reflecting on how her own undergraduate days inadvertently led her to this point. Nicoll, then a sport and exercise science student at Cardiff University, had an eye on making it as an international shot putter, but not to the detriment of enjoying all aspects of university life; she played as hard as she worked. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Scrap tourist tax, university foreign student levy and cut stamp duty on shares to boost London, Reeves urged

Scrap tourist tax, university foreign student levy and cut stamp duty on shares to boost London, Reeves urged  London Evening Standard

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2 w. ago If the right really wants free speech in universities, why is it so obsessed with discrediting students? | Jason Okundaye

Conservatives see these institutions as finishing schools for the next generation of leaders – and they won’t cede them to progressive ideasWhen I was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Cambridge University, I was plastered all over the national press for making a tweet about white people. It has not turned out to be a big deal for my life or career, but at the time it felt monumental: racist hate mail was sent to my college for months; the Conservative MP Bob Blackman called for my prosecution; and tabloid journalists turned up at my home and harassed my mother (it was August, a famously slow news month). I received a lot of support from the student population, alumni and the police (and none from the university, bar a few kind academics), but it cast a shadow over the rest of my time there – I worried about what future I could have or what employer would hire me if they were to Google my name and see I had attracted scandal. Mostly I wondered why this was national news.I found...

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3 w. ago Record low number of graduates from top universities started paying back student loans last year amid growing jobs crisis

In 2024, only some 44,527 recent alumni of Russell Group institutions began to repay money they borrowed from the government to fund their studies. Pictured: File photo

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3 w. ago She took chickens that were going to die in a factory farm. Was it a rescue or a crime?

Zoe Rosenberg, a California student, is on trial over a tactic that animal rights activists consider a moral imperative. Critics say its a threat to the food supplyOn a Monday afternoon in late September, Zoe Rosenberg, a 23-year-old University of California, Berkeley, student, emerged from a courtroom in Santa Rosa, California. Flanked by her lawyers, she moved briskly through the courthouse corridors, past more than 100 prospective jurors.Pinned to her black blazer was a tiny silver chicken, glinting on the lapel. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago She took chickens from a slaughterhouse. Was it a rescue or a crime?

Zoe Rosenberg, a California student, is on trial over a tactic that animal rights activists consider a moral imperative. Critics say it’s a threat to the food supplyOn a Monday afternoon in late September, Zoe Rosenberg, a 23-year-old University of California, Berkeley, student, emerged from a courtroom in Santa Rosa, California. Flanked by her lawyers, she moved briskly through the courthouse corridors, past more than 100 prospective jurors.Pinned to her black blazer was a tiny metallic chicken, glinting on the lapel. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sheku Bayoh Inquiry could face years of delay after chairman quits, lawyer warns

Lord Bracadale said he was resigning as he felt ‘many of the core participants have lost confidence in my conduct’.

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3 w. ago 'Victims don't believe you!' Starmer faces calls for Jess Phillips to quit over grooming gangs 'cover

In bruising clashes at PMQs, Keir Starmer insisted the probe would not be 'watered down' to avoid considering 'racial and religious motivations'.

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3 w. ago Jess Phillips faces demands to QUIT as Labour is accused of 'watering down' grooming gang inquiry after four victims quit panel

Furious victims have been calling for the Home Office minister to go claiming she had accused them of 'lying' about efforts to water down the probe.

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3 w. ago Jess Phillips faces demands to QUIT as Labour's grooming gangs inquiry descends into shambles

Furious victims have been calling for the Home Office minister to go claiming she had accused them of 'lying' about efforts to water down the probe.

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3 w. ago Universities running 'Mickey Mouse' courses face limits on student numbers in new crackdown

Institutions offering low-quality teaching and poor student outcomes will be penalised with caps on how many they can recruit.

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3 w. ago Wales expected to call in new faces and England rocked as top star quits

The latest rugby news stories from Wales and beyond

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