The programme, launched by Virgin, aims to develop students’ business and professional skills in order to enhance their chances of employment by offering challenges

How joining a university society is easy to do and beneficial to your general student experience in Manchester

Olivia Stringer evaluates other students’ experiences with the Student Finance system and the negative implications of assuming parents will help to fund University studies.

Read about the changes to food on The University of Manchester’s campus and whether more can be done to help students in their day to day lives

The mayor of Greater Manchester unveiled new plans to tackle growing mental health problems in Manchester’s universities

Lauren Valentine contends that cultural modules are an essential part of any language degree, and students should be striving for a deeper understanding of a country’s culture, not just furthering their career.

Being an international student can be hard at times — it is difficult to be so far away from the people you know and love, and often so removed from the home comforts and familiarities of your own country that you once took for granted

Big-name professors are being recruited in a ‘transfer-market’ like system, according to new research on the impact of government research rankings

The Facebook favourite could face closure, having incurred debts of over £6 million

The ISE (Institute of Student Employers) reports students who were educated in state schools are less represented in Britain’s top graduate schemes

UK university bosses call for the criminalisation of essay mills after research suggests as many as one in seven students are using them

Japan claims second-best for universities for the first time ever as the UK reputation diminishes in the face of a growing Asia.

Sally Rooney has been getting a lot of hype. Urussa Malik reads her latest novel, Normal People, to find out how such a comparatively young writer (she’s written two best-selling books by the age of 26) has been so successful.

University is a turbulent time, and that it why it is the best place to go through a break-up. In an environment that encourage self-reinvention, we are reminded that we are not just someone’s ‘other half’.

The University of Manchester has been ranked the 19th best in the country and second best in the North West of England

Study by the WHO finds that as many as one in three first-year students experience symptoms of a mental health disorder.

New criminal techniques being used across the city are threatening students as the academic year restarts

Universities UK and Papyrus call for suicide prevention training amongst university staff to protect students’ mental health

There is a growing pressure on students to make their Summer break from school and University productive rather than the opportunity for relaxation and freedom it should be, writes Cachella Smith