If you're heading off to university for the first time this year, you're probably feeling a mixture of excitement – goodbye living with your parents! – combined with some serious new-kid-at-school ...

LEARNING that her vibrant young daughter was dead, having lay lifeless on the floor of her new student accommodation for hours, was incomprehensible for Sandra Larmour. Just a day earlier she had ...

In the weeks before I started uni, seven long years ago, there was only one thing on my mind. No, not starting my degree or anything (don’t be ridiculous). I just couldn’t wait for Freshers’ Week.

A typical freshers' week experience involves a sweaty nightclub, a greasy kebab and a raging hangover in a lecture hall. But this year more universities than ever are catering to first-time students ...