Revealed: Nine Russell Group unis spent on restructuring last year – Queen’s Belfast at £25.4m
Cardiff spent £24.3m on restructuring linked to a voluntary severance scheme despite recording a £33.4m deficit, while 15 Russell Group universities recorded zero restructuring costs in the same year
Ranked: 15 Russell Group unis by THE sustainability 2026 – Manchester leads, York scores lowest
Manchester topped 1,646 universities globally in the Times Higher Education sustainability rankings
Apparently it’s National Picky Bits Day, so here’s every Russell Group uni as an M&S snack
Of course Cambridge is olives
Ranked: Uni courses by financial return – performing arts leaves you £43k poorer than non-grads
A quarter of all UK graduates will be financially worse off over their lifetime than if they hadn’t gone to university, according to new IFS research
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by endowment income – Oxford at £154m, Cardiff at just £1.4m
Oxford receives over 100 times more in donations and endowment income than Cardiff – and endowments make up more than five per cent of Oxford’s total income, compared to just 0.2 per cent at Cardiff
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by learning experience – Oxford scores four times Queen Mary
Oxford and Cambridge score 100 for learning experience in the QS World Rankings 2027 – Queen Mary scores just 24, less than a quarter
Do 18/27 of these while surviving the weather and you’re officially having a posh-girl heatwave
If your fridge has an ice machine, you’re a posh girl
Ranked: The 20 most competitive student housing cities in 2026-27- Liverpool tops at 2,525
Liverpool has nearly 2,500 students searching for every available property – six times more competitive than Manchester and more than double London, according to UniHomes
Ranked: The 20 UK universities with lowest student satisfaction in 2027 – Edinburgh third worst
Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College London all appear in the bottom 20 for student satisfaction despite their global reputations
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by graduate employment in QS rankings – Queen’s Belfast last
Queen’s University Belfast scores just 20 for graduate employment outcomes – while Oxford, Cambridge and LSE all achieve a perfect 100, according to the QS 2027 rankings