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101: Combatting A Young-Life Crisis

Dana Fowles discusses hitting the dreaded third-year crossroads

Making the Cut

Worried you don’t fit in, or having trouble making friends? You’re not alone…

University woes: don’t let them stress you out

With the period of deadlines well upon and exams soon to follow, we consider the stresses that University can cause.

SU looks at helping ‘neglected’ North Campus

The Students’ Union is looking at ways to make North Campus students feel less neglected

UCAS applications see surprise rise

UCAS applications have risen after seeing record drops earlier in the year

Manchester researchers tackle deadliest skin cancer

University of Manchester researchers have discovered a new way to combat the deadliest skin cancer

Why I don’t want a PhD

Antonia Jennings tells us why a career in academia isn’t as good as it first sounds

Cambridge to begin ‘Terminator Studies’

Academics at the University of Cambridge will open a new centre to study potential human “extinction” risks

Suspended MMU Prof offered job back

Professor Ian Parker is expected to appeal the decision, which requires him to issue an apology

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