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Make your freshers’ week one to remember – in a good way. Here’s how to keep yourself healthy and happy as you start university life.
Even under changed circumstances, universities can still provide students with the things they find important.
From black coffee to a hair of the dog – here’s the science behind popular hangover remedies.
Students, manage your stress with these top tips.
Fewer young people are drinking these days – but the pressure during freshers’ week can be intense.
Introverts, don’t worry.
Emerging science could help us gain a better understanding of the annual phenomenon of students falling ill when they head back to uni.
The way that newcomers are initiated into a group can reveal a lot about that group’s values. So what does the sexist ditty recently chanted by freshers students at the University of Nottingham tell us…
Over the next few weeks there will be many nervous people across the country ready to embark upon a new chapter in life: university. For many young people going to university means moving away from home…
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