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Some 24 UK undergraduate students have taken part in a CEO for a day scheme, which aims to help students understand what it takes to become a CEO. 

The scheme enables students to spend a day with the CEO of a company in order to see first hand what the position involves, the skills and qualities required and what they do on a daily basis. 

The University of Oxford has the highest social media following of any university in the UK according to an analysis by student video production company Uni Shoots. 

The university has more than 3,000,000 followers across Instagram, Facebook and Youtube. The University of Cambridge came in second with just over 2,000,000 followers, followed by the London School of Economics and Politics with 522,121 followers. 

Earlier this month, Dublin welcomed 150 undergraduate students from all over the world for The Undergraduate Awards 2017. 

The Undergraduate Awards, now in their ninth year, aim to celebrate undergraduate research from students across all disciplines and multiple countries. Undergraduates submit their dissertations/final-year projects to a panel of judges, and a winning student is selected from each category alongside a number of highly commended positions.

Newcastle University has been named the best university in the UK for overall student experience, according to the Annual Student Experience Awards from University Compare. 

University Compare’s table is based on four key elements: institute and course, accommodation, employment prospects, and social life. 

In Business of Fashion’s third annual Global Fashion School Rankings, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design has been named the best fashion school for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. 

The rankings, collated by the fashion media company Business of Fashion, run down the best fashion schools around the world for fashion programmes at both the undergraduate and master’s levels. This year, there is also a newly established ranking of business graduate courses within fashion institutions. 

To mark the launch of new research to find out why young people want to go to university, research specialist Alterline spoke to a six-year-old, a nine-year-old and a 17-year-old about their reasons for planning to enter higher education. 

The three ultimately gave quite similar answers, mostly revolving around expanding learning and increasing job prospects. 

 The full answers can be seen in the video below. 

The University of Paris-Saclay has launched a smartphone app to help incoming international students and researchers create a personalised plan to navigate the bureaucratic red tape involved in moving to France.

The number of international students wishing to study in Canada has grown since May 2017, new research has found.  

The International Student Admissions Service (ISAS) polled 1,700 students in August and September 2017 and found that 62 per cent of respondents listed Canada as their first choice. In a similar poll carried out in April and May 2017, only 27 per cent of respondents placed Canada as their first choice.

While it is important to enjoy your university experience in the moment, it is always worth having an idea in the back of your mind about what you plan to do when you leave university. It might be further study, it might be travelling or it might be heading straight into a career.

Certain communities of students are less likely to report being satisfied with their university experience, according to a new report.

More than 6,500 students took part in an online survey conducted by Unite Students and YouthSight to discover how students felt about university life.