Student health
Parents ‘horrified’ by response to petition after suicide of Bristol student
Government declines to act on call for legal duty of care for all students after death of Natasha Abrahart in 2018
Sally Weale Education correspondent
05, Feb, 2023 @5:45 PM
UK student housing reaching ‘crisis point’ as bad as 1970s, charity warns
Growing numbers of students are experiencing hidden homelessness or accepting poor accommodation
Rachel Hall
26, Dec, 2022 @6:00 PM
Parents urge UK universities to reveal student suicide rates
Inquest to be held into death of Harry Armstrong Evans, who was at University of Exeter
Sally Weale Education correspondent
05, Oct, 2022 @5:17 PM
UK universities call for maintenance loan uplift amid students’ financial woes
Russell Group says rise in hardship funding also needed as survey shows average maintenance loan falls £439 short each month
Sally Weale Education correspondent
20, Sep, 2022 @11:01 PM
How Sussex university led the way in student support | Letter
Letter: Patricia Rashbrook describes how in the 1970s the university devised a system of mental health safeguarding that higher institutions today must learn from
Letters
25, May, 2022 @3:25 PM
‘When you stop fighting, that’s when you start grieving’: the parents battling to prevent student suicide
In the four years since their daughter killed herself at university, Robert and Margaret Abrahart have been trying to understand why she was left to cope with her problems alone – and to help other vulnerable young people
Emine Saner
06, Apr, 2022 @1:00 PM
Third of new students in England show signs of depression, survey suggests
‘Experimental’ ONS survey of first-years finds 37% have symptoms of depression and 39% of anxiety
Sally Weale Education correspondent
27, Oct, 2021 @2:50 PM
‘Balance is fulfilling’: how to look after your mental health at uni
From making time for self-care to silencing your inner critic, the experts share their top tips for looking after your mental health at university
Abby Young-Powell
13, Sep, 2021 @2:00 PM
Mental ill-health is a bigger threat to university students than Covid | Letter
Letter: A mother of three undergraduates is worried about their wellbeing after students were told face-to-face teaching would not return until May at the earliest
Letters
18, Apr, 2021 @4:51 PM
Rise in students asking to repeat year after campus shutdowns
Final exam worries grow with in-person teaching still banned at universities in England
Rachel Hall
18, Apr, 2021 @9:00 AM
UK Covid: PM warns 8 March is earliest England's schools can go back, if it will not cause 'surge in disease' – as it happened
PM stresses 8 March ‘earliest’ date for schools reopening; 1,725 deaths recorded in second highest daily toll; arrivals from red list countries face quarantine
Andrew Sparrow
27, Jan, 2021 @6:26 PM
More than half of students polled report mental health slump
Loneliness, depression and anxiety in England during pandemic revealed by ONS and NUS surveys
Sally Weale Education correspondent
09, Dec, 2020 @7:32 PM
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