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 ...

Freshers Week is being phased out by Scottish universities over fears the traditional event has become associated with risky behaviour and binge drinking. The Scottish Mail on Sunday can reveal some ...

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.

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 ...

It may seem like a staple of student life. But the drinking culture during freshers’ week can be ‘exclusionary’ for disadvantaged students, the universities watchdog has warned. Universities must work ...

Lucy Pears says she has received a lot of feedback from students on the issue Hundreds of students are set to miss out on freshers' week because their accommodation will not be ready. The new ...

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Mid-september means many things; pumpkin spice lattes on repeat, panic coat shopping for the sudden drop in temperature, and a return of great autumn TV shows. But for thousands of school leavers, it ...

Freshers Week is one of the most anticipated times of any new student's year. The week of non-stop parties, drinking, finding new friends, going as hard as possible, and waking up in a hungover ...