‘Llamapalooza’, Berkeley’s take on animal therapy for stressed students
A final-year student at the University of California, Berkeley has offered students a novel way to destress during the exam season - involving llamas....
Tip-off service set up to stop dangerous UK student initiations
Amid growing concerns around student initiations that compel students to perform dangerous tasks to join a club or society, the body that organises student...
Greek students protest scrapped academic sanctuary law
Greek students have been protesting the scrapping of a longstanding law that enshrined university spaces as academic sanctuaries of asylum, keeping police and the...
Social media may create unrealistic expectations of the student experience, expert...
A recent article has shed light on the fact university students may enter higher education with the expectation they will have the 'time of...
26% of Belfast students in the dark about STI testing options
A study into the standards of sexual health services at UK universities has found that 11% of students do not know where to get...
Needle spiking awareness campaign planned for UK freshers’ week
Proposed UK government add campaign will draw attention to 'new phenomenon' of needle spiking in nightclubs; timed to kick off alongside the start of the new academic year.
Study finds Canadian students gain weight in first year of uni
A Canadian study has found that students in Canada gain weight during the first year of university, with men gaining double the amount of...
Study finds 1 in 4 PhD students in UK ‘bullied’ during...
25% of PhD students in the UK say that they have been 'bullied', according to a new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute...
Students wait 6 weeks for counselling at some UK universities
An investigation into the UK's student mental health crisis has revealed that universities are oblivious to key statistics such as budgets and waiting times...
Durham university defends offering support to student sex workers
Durham university has had to defend its decision to give support to student sex workers after criticism by government ministers.
A one hour workshop on...