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It doesn’t take long for visitors to Harper Adams University to notice the relaxed, down-to-earth vibe on campus. Whether it is the students’ union president padding around his office in bright red socks, the group of welly-clad young women taking a dog for a walk or seeing the warm and welcoming Amanda Price at the student services centre, it soon becomes clear that this is an institution apart.

Times Higher Education’s National University of Singapore has retained its position as the top university in Asia.

In fact, the 2017 top five contains the same universities as the 2016 top five, albeit with a slight shifting of positions.  

Applications to the Charpak Master’s Scholarships 2017 are now open, the Embassy of France in India has announced.

The scholarship supports students from India looking to pursue a one or two–year master’s degree in France across a number of fields of study. The deadline for application submission is Thursday 11 May 2017.

This year, the Embassy of France has increased the number of scholarships available to students to 500. Last year 370 students received scholarships.

The University of Paris-Saclay is widening its international student outreach by offering 160 scholarships to outstanding master’s students 

The aim of the scholarships is to promote access to the university’s master’s programmes.

The grants will be valued at up to €10,000 (£8,700) for each student and will be awarded to those who have demonstrated academic excellence.

Half of university staff think that students turn up for class without having done the required reading, according to data collected by Times Higher Education.

In THE’s Teaching Survey for 2017, 1150 higher education staff (90 per cent of whom were academics) were surveyed on their teaching habits and their views on student engagement.

The London Business School (LBS) as the highest-ranked UK institution in the Financial Times’ Global MBA Rankings.

Cambridge’s Judge Business School (CJBS) rose five places to fifth in the rankings, while LBS dropped three places to sixth. It is the first time that LBS has not been the UK’s top-ranked institution and it is Cambridge’s first appearance in the top five.

Ever heard of a unicorn? No – not the mythical horse with a horn on its head, but a start-up company worth in excess of a billion US dollars.

While you might not be familiar with the term “unicorn” to describe such companies, you will almost certainly be familiar with some of the companies that fall into the category: Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Twitter, Groupon and Deliveroo to name a few. The list is pretty big.

University applicants can now predict the cost of studying around the world with a new cost calculator for the top 200 universities covering 27 different countries.

The tool, created by currency experts at FairFX and released ahead of the Ucas deadline in January 2017, reveals that Germany is the most affordable study destination for UK students looking to go abroad.

New data from a student accommodation marketplace show that even more European students are interested in coming to the UK this year, despite concerns that the prospect of Brexit would put them off.

Enquiries from European students into UK accommodation on Student.com tripled during September to December 2016 compared with the same period the previous year.

There’s an optimistic outlook for graduate career opportunities in the UK, according to a survey of careers advisers at UK universities.

Despite Brexit-related concerns about the job market, about 70 per cent of the respondents to AGCAS’ Graduate Labour Market and Student Engagement Survey reported an increase in the number of graduate vacancies compared with the previous year, but this was down by more than 10 per cent from both 2014 and 2015.