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Top professions dominated by private school leavers

Oxbridge and leading private schools produce the majority of top professionals

MMU first-year wins prize at Manchester Hackathon

Computer Science student Bilawal Hameed won “Best Under 21s Creation” category and £600 for his “Bus Tracker” app

‘LAD’ culture: the truth

Dana examines the LAD culture which runs through university life

University Christian Union leader resigns after ‘blacking up’

“Foolish mistake” costs leader his position and causes “damage to anti-racism movements”

End in sight for ‘Toast Rack’

MMU’s famous Hollings Faculty will cease to be used from next year

Students over-estimate number of peers taking drugs

90% believe peers are taking drugs, compared with the reality of 54%

Student 101: home sweet home

Final year student Lucy Firth gives advice about living away from home

Uni life on the big screen

Are films set at university ever that close to the truth?

We ask, you answer

This week… do you make better friends at school/college or at University?

UK Universities ‘face collapse into global mediocrity’

University of Manchester slips one place in world rankings

Stressed academics face ‘increasingly intolerable pressure’

University staff are considerably more stressed than the average British working person

The Lecture after the Night Before

For the girls: Gráinne Morrison tries to solve the student style dilemma faced all too often…

University of Manchester students happiest since 2005, says NSS

83% of students at University of Manchester ‘satisfied’ – up 4% from last year

Universities ‘still advertising vacancies’ days before term starts

‘Prestigious’ universities still advertising places for over 13,500 courses

100,000 science graduates needed to maintain economy

A report has found that an extra 10,000 annual science graduates are needed to maintain the UK economy

New MMU Business School “miles ahead” of competition

Business people from around the North-West praise the new MMU Business School

‘Professional impersonators’ sit exams in place of students

Stressed students pay thousands to cheat – “this goes all the way up to the Ivy League”

Escape the rain, study abroad for less

With increasing fees and a struggling British economy, is it time for UK students to fly the coop?

US universities increase efforts to recruit UK students

UK fee increases are tempting more students into studying at US universities

UK university donations to reach £2 billion by 2022

Charitable donations could play a more major role in UK university funding if trends continue