Paris: the best city for students

Paris – top of the checklist

Is Paris a wonderful city to be a student in? Is London too costly? London has been voted the second very best city in the world for students, with the quantity 1 spot going to Paris.

The British city has been described as as “a nerve-centre of global academia” by QS Greatest Student Cities, who produced the record. Nevertheless it missed out on the best spot since it truly is so high-priced.

“It’s really close, there is only two points in it,” says Ben Sowter, head of analysis at QS. “It comes down to affordability – Paris is hardly the cheapest, but it beats london on cost for students.”

What college students say:

Artur Reszka, economics and organization pupil at Sciences Po, Paris says:

The culture in Paris is broadly offered and extremely inexpensive if you have a pupil ID in your pocket. Just a couple of weeks in the past me and my pal went to Théâtre des Champs-Elysees for the grand complete of €5 per particular person!

Ben Lifton, magazine publishing pupil at the University of the Arts London says:

London is a brilliant city to go to uni in since it is exactly where every person moves to following learning elsewhere within the Uk to get a job. That implies we presently have a leg up, because we know the ideal and cheapest areas to live and recognize the tube map. Moving to London is daunting at first, but it does make you expand up.

Cities had been ranked in accordance to their student combine, high quality of residing, employer activity and affordability.

Manchester and Edinburgh were also each ranked inside the leading 50, at numbers 29 and 32. Other cities in the top 20 included Berlin, Melbourne, Montreal, San Francisco and Beijing.

Sowter says: “London, Manchester and Edinburgh all scored more than 90 points for student mix, which highlights the UK’s continued acceptance as a research location amongst worldwide students.”

Have they got it correct? Is Paris far better than London? And what about the numerous other Uk cities that did not make it into the best 50? Inform us what you consider: tweet @gdnstudents #mycity

A single in three college students in Swansea have had drink spiked

Have you ever had your drink spiked? If you’re a pupil at Swansea uni then there’s a higher opportunity you have: study by the Waterfront student paper uncovered that one particular in 3 students have been a victim of spiking.

What are the signs to look out for? A student who responded to the survey says: “It was terrible, I could not move, the bouncers had been going to ring an ambulance, but my good friend came to choose me up. When I received house I passed out on my landing and my mum discovered me in the morning.”

‘Save disability scientific studies at our uni’

College students at the University of Manchester have started a petition to bring back disability studies following it was scrapped by the uni. In accordance the the Mancunion student paper, the course will carry on at the Manchester Institue of Education, but students are anxious it will not be as in-depth as the degree.

In an open letter to the Better Manchester Coalition of Disabled Individuals, lecturer Barbara Perry says: “I am really concerned over the latest closure of the finding out disability research programme at the University of Manchester. This is a exclusive and revolutionary degree programme which consists of disabled grownups at the core of its function.”

Paris: the best city for students