Fair play v foul

Drunken initiations into sports teams and even academic courses can be life-threatening to students. Tom Bryant reports.

Going for broke

A quarter of nursing students leave before completing their training, despite cash bursaries. Are the grants failing as an incentive to boost public sector recruitment?

The low-down on student blues

Alice Clarfelt on how to shake off a bout of post-Christmas campus depression.

Success, with no strings attached

It used to be that the typical medical student was from a professional family, had top grades and played the cello. But tomorrow's doctors are now being encouraged from less advantaged social groups. By Joanna Lyall.

The best of times, the worst of times

New research is looking at the impact of a student's suicide on a university. Harriet Swain reports.

Student death sparks meningitis fears

Students at Liverpool University were being issued with antibiotics today after a second-year undergraduate died of suspected meningitis.

Student daze

Is abusing your body when you're at college really such a disaster, asks Alan Trotter.