Guide tells parents to stop doing the ironing in order to empty the nest amid record graduate unemployment

Former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee says poor have been subsidising the rich for too long

Guardian Student Media Awards winners announced at the Proud Galleries in Camden

 

The student union bar could become an endangered species as university pubs close in increasing numbers to make way for juice bars and gyms. Student unions are responding to dwindling alcohol revenues and legislation that will turn them into independent charities

 
After decades of feminism, equal rights and "women-only" support networks, a lower, deeper voice is attempting to make itself heard at some of Britain's leading universities.

Over the past week there have been 9,000 cases of swine flu diagnosed around the country, almost double the amount of the week before, which has heightened awareness of the pandemic.

The launch of Deviate, a new society aimed to get students into enterprise and business whilst they are at university, drew a crowd at its launch at Varsity on Thursday, November 18th.

The student union bar could become an endangered species as university pubs close in increasing numbers to make way for juice bars and gyms. Student unions are responding to dwindling alcohol revenues and legislation that will turn them into independent charities.

 

Anti-bullying week came at the perfect time during the university calendar, according to Judith Carey, director of Student Services at the University of Lincoln, who has found that a couple of months into the semester, tensions amongst students can get fired up and get drawn into bullying without even realising.
 
                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                 

Britain's leading student athletes will be the first to use the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium in a rehearsal for the 2012 Games.