Student experience

As a recent Student Union survey found nearly half of students are struggling with their finances, Anna Boyne asks if their university experience is suffering....

This month we asked for poetry submissions on the theme ‘Student Experience’. Writers could take any stance they wanted on the matter, be it positive or negative – all we ask for is for honesty and creativity. Check the results out below! Nottingham, When I Leave You nottingham, when...

The Great Escape programme involves raising as much money as you can prior your travel date, all the money of which will go to a charity in partnership with the Enactus organisation here at the University of Nottingham (UoN). Over the weekend of travel, (18-19th or 25-26th March) the...

Much to the dismay of student travellers, Tokyo has recently been ranked as the world’s most expensive city. However, while studying abroad for a year in central Tokyo, I discovered various money-saving methods in order to spend as little yen as possible. I became a somewhat professional in saving...

Travelling doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg! Catch up with Rhys on the second part of his Nordic adventure, travelling from Denmark to Sweden on a budget that’ll bring warmth to your cold student hearts (central heating what now?) After Copenhagen, my friend and I set...

Talking to a friend about travelling to Vietnam, he casually remarked that I could take out VND 2,000,000 (yes, two million) and easily survive with this amount for the 5 days I had planned to spend there. Converting this ridiculously inflated currency back into GBP, you’ll be relieved and...

The University of Nottingham has been rated the second best university in the UK by international students, ranking higher than the University of Cardiff. Each university was rated out of ten by its international students and all results were derived from opinion based student reviews. The university is one...