6:30 Market Street. Delivery vans are parked at loading bays, while the first trams take early shift workers across St Peter’s Square. This is how a working day in Manchester begins, and it will not end until the last bus departs. We trace this day in our guide, the Manchester Shift Clock. Each chapter begins […]

Are you thinking about relocating to Columbia, Missouri? Well, you may have heard that there is the famous University of Missouri (Mizzou), a buzzing downtown area, and a city that regularly ranks among the most picturesque and affordable smaller cities in the country. However, before you go ahead and buy your plane ticket to Columbia, […]

So, you’ve managed to survive the first year in Madrid. You successfully coped with bureaucracy, learned how to travel around the city by metro and ate your weight in tapas. Now it’s time for a new challenge of adulthood, renting in Madrid as a student in the second year. Leaving the dorms and moving into […]

You’ve got the offer letter, a half-packed suitcase, and a folder of documents you’re pretty sure you’ll need at some point. But what you definitely don’t have yet is a feeling of what the everyday life will be like and how much it will cost when you get there. The experience of the Barcelona student […]

The agent who calls either country a “guaranteed PR pathway” is selling you a course, not a future. Every year, thousands of students pick Australia or New Zealand based on a brochure, a cousin’s story or a consultant’s commission. Then the rules change before graduation, and the plan falls apart. This post compares New Zealand […]

“En-suite, all bills included, study room, 24-hour reception.” Four phrases from a typical housing advert, and one acronym quietly hiding behind them. If you have spent an evening decoding Barcelona listing, you have already met PBSA in Barcelona, even when no advert spelled it out. The letters stand for purpose-built student accommodation: buildings made for […]