Student life

More than a quarter (26 per cent) of university applicants experience frequent anxiety issues, a new survey has revealed. 

In a survey to mark this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (8-14 May), The Student Room polled 2,700 young people in the UK to determine just how widespread anxiety and stress are among those applying to university. 

Joseph Black, a second-year student at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-founder of the UniDosh app, offers his take on the most useful apps for students.

I was eager to make the best of an exchange semester in France by integrating myself into the Toulousain lifestyle. My exchange college was the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse (part of the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées).

Nearly 80 per cent of UK students do not think that the government pays enough attention to the views of students and young people.

A survey of more than 1,000 students, carried out by the Student Room after the announcement of the snap general election earlier this month, reveals that 80 per cent of respondents feel that they are not personally represented by the current government. However, 72 per cent of respondents were in favour of prime minister Theresa May’s decision to call a general election this year.

My journey to the American University of Sharjah (AUS) was a complicated one. 

During the semester before studying abroad, I took a choir class with a professor who previously taught at AUS and worked with a choir he created in the UAE. I made friends in that exchange, over Skype, who studied at AUS, and who ultimately convinced me to come here.

Coming to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 2012, after graduating from high school in Toronto, Canada, was my first time coming to Europe. I never thought that I would find a place as culturally diverse as Toronto, but I was proven wrong when I came to RCSI.

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I found out that I was pregnant during Freshers' Week. My mind often flits to that moment, the two pink lines and my shock and exhilaration. Like many undergraduates, I came to the University of Oxford with a dread of inadequacy. Now, my body was doing something wonderful, driving me towards a point that fear could not prevent.

“I will continue to include student voices in engagement and panel discussions, to promote awareness and implementation of our strategic goals around student experience and outcomes.”

This was just one of the pledges collected from a university leader at the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit, held from 5-7 April at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.   

When I told my friends that I was going to study industrial engineering in Karlsruhe, many asked me why. The city, with a population of 300,000, is unremarkable in comparison with its neighbours Freiburg, Stuttgart and Frankfurt, but is the location of one of Europe’s largest research institutions.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has achieved an excellent reputation in science and engineering because of some of the major inventions it has pioneered.