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Students protesting the fee raises in January

Is a degree worth �9,000 per year?

This week Oxford University confirmed that it would raise undergraduate tuition fees to �9,000 per year. The decision came after Cambridge, Imperial College London and Exeter also announced their intentions to charge the maximum allowed by the government’s recent reforms. To say the least, this news puts Nick Clegg’s claims that �9,000 fees would be ‘the exception, not the rule’ in doubt. But is a university degree really worth all that money? We've asked recent graduates and current students what they think.

Britain’s top ten student eateries

Apart from battling through Kant, getting your head around quantum mechanics and thinking about reading Ulysses, most people spend their student days sitting in that favoured pub or caf� watching the hours pass by. It’s something close to every student’s heart, that local provider of good food, strong coffee and cheap alcohol. We’ve selected the ten best places students go to get a square meal.

Inside Student Life

Interview with... Mylo: The musician and record producer looks back

The musician and record producer recalls uni life

Reduce your rent by heading northwards

If accommodation costs are putting you off a course, look at a different region

Living at home: the pros and cons

Is it a good idea to live chez mum and dad while you are studying?

Fitting a healthy lifestyle in with socialising and studying

Overcome a weighty issue by eating well and exercising

If illness strikes, what do you do as two years' work threatens to go up in smoke?

Double denim: the ultimate sin?

Double denim used to be the stuff of nightmares. Stonewash jeans with a denim jacket? So 80s, and so... well, wrong. But the look was championed by the likes of Chloe and Ralph Lauren at the spring/summer shows, and the high street has been quick to pick up on the trend.

Comment: The Virtual World Conference is the shape of things to come

On 15 September, the Open University, in collaboration with the Serious Games Institute, will host a 24-hour conference. Opening in Hong Kong, the focus will shift to Europe as the eastern evening meets the UK morning, handing over at our sundown for a final eight hours on the US western coast. Despite crossing many time zones during the day, conference chairs and delegates will meet at a single location, and never have to leave the comfort of their own armchairs.

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