After the culmination of the Rio Olympics, the eyes of most people will have been drawn to the official international medal table. A great deal has been made of the remarkable rise of Team GB, who finished second in the table behind the US.
A Level Results are out. Whether you’ve already worked up the nerves to log into Ucas Track and checked the status of your university place, or are on your way to collect the all-important envelope, the moment of truth is well and truly upon us.
Whatever your results are, rest assured that you are in good company, and you’re never out of options. I'll be keeping you updated throughout the day, scroll down for older posts.
The UK universities charging the lowest tuition fees to international students in 2016-17 have been revealed in a survey of postgraduate and undergraduate courses by TheCompleteUniversityGuide.
Although the cost of university varies across different subjects and is partially dependent on whether the course is classroom, laboratory or clinically based, the results published by Times Higher Education show the cheapest universities in the UK averaged for each type of course.
The 10 universities ranked at the top of Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) last year have all retained their place in the top 10 for 2016, despite some shuffling up and down.
The results of the 2016 National Student Survey reveal which UK universities are keeping their students the most satisfied.
At the two universities with the joint highest scores, 97 per cent of taught students either definitely or mostly agreed that they were satisfied overall with the quality of their course.
So, which UK universities have the happiest students?
A-level results are released in the UK on Thursday 18 August and Scottish exam results are out on 9 August, but Ucas Clearing – the direct application route to university courses that still have available places – is already open.
A new Latin America ranking published today is dominated by Brazilian institutions, which take almost half the 50 spots.
Although the region’s universities struggle to compete globally in international league tables, the pilot Times Higher Education ranking highlights top universities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico.
Universities in Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru have never appeared in THE’s World University Rankings until now.
Times Higher Education has outlined more details of its planned new US college rankings, which are designed to address dissatisfaction with current rankings in the country by putting student learning at their heart.
The ranking of more than 1,000 colleges and universities in the US, to be published in September 2016, will focus on teaching, including graduate outcomes, and the student experience with a range of new performance metrics announced in a webinar last week.
UK student Camilla Devereux just completed her anthropology degree at the University of Sussex:
I woke up this morning and stared at my phone for a good five minutes in disbelief. Living in London, socialising with students, colleagues and lecturers, I'd been lulled into a false sense of security. I thought that we'd vote to stay in the European Union.
I was so sure. I mean, we couldn't really vote to leave, could we? Nobody I knew wanted to leave, after all.
With the stability of the UK economy and free movement across European borders now in question, the impact of Brexit – the UK’s decision to leave the European Union – could have both short-term and long-term effects on international students.
Importantly, the UK’s status in the EU and its relationship with other member states will not change overnight.
It will take a minimum of two years for the UK to leave the EU and much has to be negotiated in the meantime.