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Why are medical students calling for changes to maintenance loans?

12/02/26

Financial worry is now the baseline condition of being a student

02/02/26

What do students on placement get for their money?

01/12/25

Here’s how students are spending financial support in 2025

27/11/25

Budget 2025 and what it means for SUs, students and graduates

26/11/25

Scotland’s Tertiary Bill at Stage 2: What SUs need to know

24/11/25

What does it actually cost to apply to a postgraduate course?

02/11/25

What’s in the Post-16 skills white paper for students?

21/10/25

International student fees and hardship – what different universities are doing

21/10/25

The costs of failure. How much does it cost students to repeat, resubmit etc?

10/10/25

What does the national student money survey say this year – and what do SUs need to know

18/09/25

How much money do students actually need?

14/08/25

VFM in HE – what students think and what SUs can do

30/07/25

When medicine meets poverty – what to do about medical student hardship

29/05/25

OfS has got their funding guidance but what does it mean

23/05/25

Change is coming for PhD students

07/02/25

It’s all coming up: Seven things for SUs to prep for in the year ahead

09/01/25

What’s all this about (home student) attendance policies?

17/12/24

Here’s what the Secretary of State for Education actually said when they increased fees (in England)

14/11/24

How the law works over tuition fee increases

07/11/24

Where international students can pay by instalments (and how many)

21/10/24

What could the King’s Speech mean for students and SUs?

19/07/24

What is the Lifelong Loan Entitlement and how is it supposed to work?

19/07/24

General election 2024 manifesto watch: The Labour Party

13/06/24

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