Is it possible to become smarter, more focused and alert for a few hours from just taking a pill? Modafinil is just one of many study drugs that has been associated with these effects. But can it be beneficial to student life?

The funniest things you’ve been saying around campus this week

University of Manchester students travel as delegates to Bosnia, as the 20th anniversary of the end of the war nears

Lauren Wills explores the effect that the outspoken comedian and political commentator Russell Brand has had on the UK political sphere

Rachel Connolly talks to Southern about sibling relationships, busking in Belfast and the album concept

Please turn off your phone when you go to the movies. And if your sense of humour is still in the ‘haha fat man fall down’ stage, switch that off too

Economics students at the University of Exeter have complained that their exam was impossible and littered with spelling errors

Concerns have been raised by Fallowfield locals over the proposal to turn The Orange Grove into flats

Survey results are released as Labour’s shadow universities minister advocates free tertiary education

A report by University of Manchester and Leeds Beckett academics has shown that black and minority ethnic students are less likely to get into Russell Group universities, even with similar school results to their white counterparts

Schizophrenia has been described as one of the most misunderstood disorders. In ‘Reassembling the Self’, Susan Aldworth looks to diminish the stigma that schizophrenia has and to depict perceptions and experiences of it through art

Why Oscar Wilde’s letter is the perfect reason why the 49000 men convicted of the ‘gross indecency’ law should be pardoned

Confused film reviewer Tom Bruce grapples with the existentialism of Birdman

James Moules reckons that Black Mirror is a bleak masterpiece of 21st Century television

With the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in mind, Adam Waterfield looks back at Kubrick’s Paths of Glory

The Internet isn’t making us stupid, we just don’t know how to deal with so much information

We spoke to University of Manchester student Louise Middleton, whose research shows that rhyming patterns come as second nature to some of hip hop’s biggest stars

The Students’ Union and University of Manchester have teamed up to deliver a week full of volunteering activities, this year aimed at shining the spotlight on unsung heroes.

The eye-opening and thought-provoking performance never lost its humour, despite the seriousness of the content, writes ‎Aimée Grant Cumberbatch

Three British students are in the running to become the first people to set foot on the Red Planet with Mars One, with 100 potential candidates left out of initially 200000 applicants