I was reminded recently of the famous Labour pre-election broadcast of 1987. With a backcloth of coastal landscapes, a soaring seagull and a rambling pair of Kinnocks, to the rousing strains of Beethoven’s 9th, the then leader of the party reflected in his voice-over on how he had been the first Kinnock “in a thousand generations” to get the opportunity to go to university.
The East Midlands has triumphed in the Loughborough University taking the top spot, and two Nottingham universities in the top 20.
Just as there is no one type of university student in the UK, there is no unique “good university experience”.
More than 15,000 students across the UK have contributed to the Times Higher Education's Student Experience Survey 2016. Now students at the best and most improved universities explain what their university life is really like at these institutions.
I make myself a cup of tea, I clear my desk and I get comfortable in my chair.
I’m ready. It’s time.
It’s the National Student Survey.
A ranking of universities in Europe released today shows that top university choices stretch far beyond the UK, Germany and other usual suspects.
Twenty-two different countries in Europe are represented in the top 200 ranking, with UK universities taking almost a quarter of the places.
The top 100 universities with the best student-to-staff ratios are predominantly US colleges, closely followed by Japanese institutions.
Not a single UK university appears in the list, which includes institutions across 23 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
What small universities lack in sheer size of their student body, they certainly make up for in the pride and passion of their students.
After the Times Higher Education announced the top 20 world's best universities 2016, students, staff and alumni sent in their own experiences and reasons why they love being at a tiny institution.
There are two fundamental questions every prospective international student needs to ask themselves: Where would I want to study? And what language do I want to study in?
If the answer to the latter question is “English”, then your quest to find the right location just got that much easier.
A new visualisation tool, compiled by StudyPortals, has mapped the location of every English taught degree at the top 1,000 universities in the world.
My first experience of the ENS Lyon was as an Erasmus student. I’d opted for Lyon over Paris in a bid to sidestep some of the inevitable year-abroad clichés. Neither the city nor the university disappointed; I left Lyon to finish my degree, wishing that I could stay.