30 h. ago ‘I do feel we can be too prudish’: one woman’s experience as a life model

Life drawing hit the headlines when a north London class, which had been running for more than 30 years, was told to cover up its naked models or find a new location. Ellie Heney, 32, from Lancaster, has been a life model for 13 years and hopes to be one for the rest of her life. She explains whyIt was my first year of university in Liverpool and it was a typical broke student situation. I saw a poster saying £20 for life modelling and when you’re living on beans on toast you think: ‘Well, I can do that.’ So I gave it a go.It’s the strangest thing in the world when you do it for the first time. I remember my heart was pounding and the adrenaline was rushing and the back of my head was prickly because I was thinking: ‘What on earth am I doing? This is crazy!’ Continue reading...

Politics

63 h. ago Trial set for suspect in killings of 4 Idaho college students. Here’s what you need to know

A judge this week declined to throw out key evidence against the man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students near the campus two years ago

Events

3 d. ago Idaho judge declines to throw out genetic evidence in University of Idaho killings

An Idaho judge has declined to throw out key evidence in a case against a man charged with murder in connection with the killings of four University of Idaho students

Events

3 d. ago Bryan Kohberger judge rules on DNA evidence in Idaho quadruple murder case

An Idaho judge finally made a ruling on the DNA technique prosecutors used to identify Bryan Kohberger as the prime suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students.

Events

4 d. ago Popular coffee chain bans university students from studying in one of its shops after complaints their marathon revision sessions take up too much space

Black Sheep Coffee, on Broad Street in Reading, say customers have complained about there being not seats on weekends due to university students taking them up.

Society

4 d. ago With half of all school leavers going to university, Scotland simply may have too many students

With universities in financial trouble, Scotland may have to start thinking about previously unthinkable measures to help them, such as reducing the student population or cutting the length of degree courses

Culture

4 d. ago University students are studying Donkey from Shrek as part of new course

The course is now offered to film studies undergraduates

Events

4 d. ago Police search for Oxford student who went missing three weeks ago in the early hours of the morning

Police are searching for a University of Oxford student, who went missing over three weeks ago in the early hours of the morning.

Events

4 d. ago Universities in Wales given £18.5m government handout amid 'significant financial challenges'

The Welsh Government has announced an extra £18.5m for universities and £500,000 to encourage higher-paying international students as institutions warn of huge deficits and cuts

Economics

5 d. ago University Challenge fans seriously distracted by contestant's 'nonsensical' habit

Viewers of the BBC Two show saw eight students from Queen's University Belfast and Warwick University students battle it out for a place in the semi-finals.

Culture

6 d. ago Tragic update in case of University of Colorado Boulder student who went missing last week

Authorities provided a tragic update in their search efforts for missing University of Colorado Boulder freshman Megan Trussell, 18, on Saturday.

Events