Thirty years after he graduated from Exeter University, Guardian reporter John Crace returns to find out how loans, fees and accountability have changed the student experience

 

Freshers' week is here again, and many new students are getting used to managing their finances for the first time while those applying for next year will be working out how to afford the cost of a degree.

With part-time jobs scarce, is it possible to keep debt at bay?

Alison Smith explores five ways that a debt-free degree might be a reality.

Some 38 per cent expect to have cleared student loans ten years after graduation.

One in 25 think they will never clear their debts.

More 4 programme to dramatise Tory politicians' experiences at Oxford, including notorious Bullingdon Club

Few things are less sexy than the humble router. But this wireless workhorse is our portal to the wonders of the Internet ...................

Graduation ceremonies proliferate as student numbers and interest rises.

Wales really has it all: prestigious big-city institutions; campuses in paradise settings; and intimate universities in peaceful countryside surroundings. Andy Sharman weighs up the options.

.................... and all current demographic and social proportions remained the same, what sort of village would it be? Simon Usborne leads a revealing guided tour.

THEATRE companies from across the globe are coming thousands of miles to appear at Henley Fringe.

Despite their peevish critics, the BBC Proms, which start tonight, remain a spectacle that we should cherish.