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The log

15 October 2026, Reapplying Next Year: we said UCAS would flag a reused personal statement to your universities. UCAS says reusing last year’s is fine, and its similarity check ignores a match with your own earlier statement. We called Scotland’s funder Student Finance Scotland, when it’s SAAS. We said your parents’ income comes from the most recent tax year, but gov.uk uses an earlier one. The 2027 cycle opened on 12 May, not in September. We’ve taken out two statistics we couldn’t trace, 30,970 gap-year deferrals and 3,380 medicine reapplicants.

15 October 2026, Foundation Year Options: we said you can’t move to another university after a foundation year. You can, by reapplying through UCAS, and the new university decides whether to take it. We also said that if you miss the January deadline you can apply through Extra, which is only for people who’ve used all five choices and hold no offers. Until 30 June 2027 you can still apply to courses that have places.

15 October 2026, Preparing for Selection Days: we told you to pick the most appropriate answer in a Real-Life Scenarios Assessment. The University of Chester, which runs it, asks for the answer closest to how you’d react. We said teaching applicants could face a literacy and numeracy test and often a school-data task on the day. We couldn’t find either at any university we checked, so both have gone, along with a line telling you to bring A-level certificates you won’t have yet.

13 October 2026, Cheap Textbooks Guide: we listed Zapper with the trade-in sites that give you an instant price for a barcode. Customer reviews going back to June 2024 say it isn’t accepting new trades, so it’s off the list.

13 October 2026, Early Entry (Medicine and Oxbridge): our table gave £70 as the fee for every admissions test. That’s the UCAT’s. A UAT-UK test is £78 in the UK and Ireland and the LNAT is £75. We said Cambridge uses the same tests as Oxford, when it takes only the ESAT and TMUA, and that a missed deadline puts you in a standard pool, which doesn’t exist. We also told you to apply for the Crankstart Scholarship and the Cambridge Bursary. Neither takes applications. Both are worked out from your student finance details.

13 October 2026, Setting Up Essential Accounts: we called Santander’s £1,500 student overdraft guaranteed. It starts at £250 and goes up once you’ve paid in £500. We said Virgin Media, BT and Sky sell nine-month student broadband contracts, but Virgin and BT sell 12-month ones and Sky has no student deal. On TV licences we said you must declare that you don’t need one and can be fined £1,000 if you don’t. Telling TV Licensing is optional, and the fine is for watching without a licence. Two figures credited to NUS, £502 and 78%, weren’t NUS’s and have come out.

13 October 2026, Accommodation Costs Explained: our table of regional rents didn’t come from NatWest, though the text around it said so. NatWest’s 2025 figures are London £743, South £626, Midlands £561 and North £530, and we’d had London at £812.

13 October 2026, Technology Essentials Checklist: we said every student gets 1TB of free cloud storage. Microsoft ended that allowance in 2024 and universities now set their own limits (St Andrews gives 50GB). Apple’s student discount is 5% to 8%, where we had about 10. A £1,142 living-cost figure with no named source has gone, and the 92% we credited to HEPI for generative AI was its figure for any AI tool.

13 October 2026, Hidden Costs of Starting University: our bus pass prices were too low. This year’s student passes run £155 to £175 a term and £350 to £550 a year. We gave Adobe’s student price as £16.24 a month without saying it’s £32.99 from the second year. The 96% we dated to NUS’s 2024 survey is from 2022. And you don’t always need a TV licence in halls: a laptop or phone running on its battery is covered by the licence at your home address.

13 October 2026, Basic Home Skills: we said mould from drying clothes indoors would come out of your deposit. Government guidance for England says landlords shouldn’t blame damp on how tenants live. We told you to ask your landlord for a new smoke alarm battery, and in England the battery is yours to change first. A wash in halls is £2.50 to £3.10, not the £3.50 we gave, and a 64% laundry statistic we couldn’t trace has gone.

13 October 2026, Choosing Accommodation (Halls vs Private): we said repairs in a private house are shared with the landlord. They’re the landlord’s job, and yours is to report them. We warned you off landlords who want a deposit before you sign, which is normal and legal in England. It’s rent before signing that they can’t take. The five-week deposit cap we gave as a flat figure is England’s.

13 October 2026, Staying Safe at Events: the sign of needle spiking we gave was a scratch or a small bruise. What the police describe is a sharp, sudden pain. We also listed 111 for the whole UK, and Northern Ireland uses Phone First.

13 October 2026, the UCAS application fee: we gave it as £28.95, the 2026 entry fee, in Early Entry (Medicine and Oxbridge) and in Understanding UCAS Offers, and we gave the UCAS Conservatoires fee as £28.95 in Portfolio and Audition Courses. For 2027 entry both are £34.50.

12 October 2026, University Survival Guide 2026: we said a bad landlord could make your life miserable for 12 months, that breaking a tenancy agreement is expensive and complicated, and that you should check the break clause. That was renting before 1 May 2026. A private house share in England is now a rolling tenancy with no 12-month term and no break clause, and you can leave it on two months’ notice.

11 October 2026, Tuition and Maintenance Loans Explained: we said a student loan doesn’t affect your ability to get a mortgage. It stays off your credit file, but lenders can count the repayments when they work out what you can afford. We said parents give their income for the previous tax year. For 2026/27 it’s 2024/25, two years back, and if they’re separated it comes from the parent you depend on financially, where we’d had the one you live with. Student Finance England’s deadline was 15 May, which we’d put in late May. We said the fee loan covers whatever the fee is, and that’s true only where the fee is capped. And we said you need a passport to apply. A birth certificate works.

11 October 2026, Staying Safe at Events: we told you to go to A&E for forensic testing after a suspected spiking. The police do that test, from a urine sample, so report it to them. We said the main reason people don’t report is memory loss, but in Drinkaware’s survey doubting the police would act came first. We said only black cabs can be hailed. Any licensed taxi can, and black cab is just London’s name for one. We said Life360 sends emergency services automatically, which only its paid plan does. A 93% figure for Ask for Angela had no source we could find and has gone.

11 October 2026, Freshers Week Preparation: we said your maintenance loan lands in one lump sum. It comes in three instalments, one at the start of each term. We called student overdrafts expensive, and inside the agreed limit they’re interest-free. We’ve also cut a line telling you to budget at least £150 for the week, which had no source.

11 October 2026, Balancing Social Life: we gave months for the three loan payments, but they follow your own term dates, so we’ve taken ours off. Two statistics, 85% from UNiDAYS and 51% from PfP Students, weren’t where we said they were, so they’re out, along with an £8,405 shortfall that only describes students from England outside London.

11 October 2026, Short Term and Summer Lets: this guide still described renting in England as it was before 1 May 2026. It told you to offer the whole summer’s rent upfront, which a landlord can no longer accept, and to look for a break clause, when a private tenant now leaves on two months’ notice. Two things were wrong whatever the date. Subletting without permission isn’t illegal for a private tenant. It breaks the tenancy agreement, and eviction takes a court. And someone renting a sublet room does have rights while the original tenancy lasts. We also said a house with a non-student gets 25% off its council tax, which is only true when there’s only one, and we’ve taken out a £550 average rent we couldn’t trace.

11 October 2026, Independent Living Preparation: we said 40% of students regret what they spend on takeaways. NatWest’s 40% is for eating out. We said you need your acceptance letter to claim the council tax exemption, and the council asks for a student certificate. Our council tax answer gave any house with a non-student a 25% discount, which applies only when there’s just the one. We suggested a joint account for bills without saying it links your credit files, so that’s out. And a TV licence is the law’s requirement, where we’d made it sound like your accommodation’s.

11 October 2026, Making Friends at University: a statistic said 70% of students in halls feel isolated. PfP Students’ figure is that 70% have felt lonely or isolated, and 43% feel isolated in their hall. Two Aldermore figures, 33% and 63%, have gone because we couldn’t open the source to check them.

11 October 2026, Student Life Expectations: three statistics have gone because we couldn’t find them in the reports we’d named: 74% cutting back on socialising and 45% living on under £50 a month (both credited to NUS), and 40% hit by loneliness (credited to HEPI). We also pointed you to Student Minds for confidential support, and it isn’t a helpline. Shout is, on 85258.

9 October 2026, Student Broadband Deals: we said that if your price goes up mid-contract you can leave without a fee within 30 days. That’s only true when the rise wasn’t written into your contract, or is bigger than the contract said, which today means Sky and NOW. BT, EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone put the rise in pounds in the contract when you sign, and you can’t leave over it. We had Hyperoptic’s £15 student price on a rolling contract. Student Beans lists it for 12 months, and rolling is £21. We called Cuckoo the leave-any-time option, and its terms set a minimum of 12, 18 or 24 months. NOW’s coverage was down as 51% of homes when NOW says 79%. An FAQ said full fibre from BT, Sky, NOW and Cuckoo still uses the phone line. It doesn’t.

9 October 2026, Car Insurance for Young Drivers: three numbers here were wrong. We said traditional cover costs young drivers up to 83% more than a black box policy. Consumer Intelligence’s figure is that a black box policy was cheaper for 83% of 17 to 19-year-olds. Our example of a Ford Fiesta quote was built from two unrelated statistics and has gone. Paying a £1,200 premium monthly at 20% APR costs about £123 in interest, and we printed £240. We also told you insurers keep their best prices for new customers. Since January 2022 they can’t quote you more at renewal than they’d quote a new customer. And our fronting example left the young driver with the other car’s whole repair bill, when the insurer still has to pay the other driver and can then come after her for the money.

9 October 2026, Best Budgeting Apps: we said these apps can see your money but never touch it. Moving it is what Plum is for, by Direct Debit. We said Emma would pull a student account, a savings pot and a credit card into one place for free, and its free plan stops at two bank logins. Plum’s paid plans start at £3.99 a month, where we had about £5, and we didn’t say its stocks and shares ISA needs one. We described Starling as Monzo with two extras, but Monzo pays bills from a pot too. An FAQ told you to set the app’s budget period to a term and pin the weekly figure to your home screen. We couldn’t find a term setting or a widget in any of the five.

9 October 2026, Opening a Bank Account Checklist: we told you banks want your 16-digit UCAS Personal ID. The Personal ID has ten digits, and what banks ask for is your UCAS status code. Our table gave NatWest’s first-year overdraft as up to £500, which is the limit for term one only (it’s up to £2,000 from term two). It called Santander’s £1,500 guaranteed when the limit starts at £250. It had Lloyds at £1,500 from the start, and it’s £500 for the first six months. We said every major bank bans a second student account. Some won’t allow it, but there’s no law against one. We also said you can’t apply from abroad. HSBC takes applications from overseas.

9 October 2026, Student Credit Cards Guide: our table of student credit cards had three cards in it, and only HSBC’s is one. TSB doesn’t list a student card, and Zopa’s is a credit-builder card that wants £10,000 of income. We said student cards cost more than standard ones. HSBC’s is the cheapest card it sells. We said banks will give you one with no income; HSBC says you’ll usually need some, and that a student loan doesn’t normally count. One paragraph warned you off gambling on a credit card as though you could. Betting firms in Great Britain have been banned from taking them since April 2020. A hard search stays on your file for one to two years, where we said permanently. And a household debt figure we credited to the Bank of England is The Money Charity’s.

9 October 2026, How to Build Credit Young: we said the Current Account Switch Service keeps your account history intact. A full switch closes the old account, and the new one counts as new on your file. We said registering to vote boosts your score instantly. It takes up to 30 days to reach your report, but a registration made between August and November doesn’t show until 1 December. You don’t need a National Insurance number to register, and we said you did. A statistic we credited to CredAbility has gone because we couldn’t find a source for it. Our line on rent reporting left out TransUnion, and left out that the free plans report to one agency only.

9 October 2026, Do Students Need a TV Licence: we said you have to send proof that you’ve moved out to get a summer refund. TV Licensing’s own policy is that unused months on a current licence need no evidence. We gave a No Licence Needed declaration two years. It’s about one, and can be less for a student address. We warned that being caught could leave you with a criminal record, and the government has said licence evasion on its own doesn’t lead to one. We had Netflix needing no licence at all, when its live events do. We also said any live stream on YouTube needs one, and it’s only live TV channels.

9 October 2026, House Viewing Checklist: a statistic said 45% of returning students look for a shared house. The 45% in Unipol’s report is a 2020 estimate of how many student renters live in one. We told you to demand a five-lever deadlock on the front door. The fire safety advice for shared houses is a front door you can open from the inside without a key. We gave the five-week deposit cap and the minimum EPC rating of E as if they applied everywhere. The cap is England’s, and it’s six weeks where the rent for the whole house is £50,000 a year or more. The EPC rule covers England and Wales, and a room let on its own contract doesn’t need a certificate.

8 October 2026, Personal Statement Guide: we said a late application goes straight into Clearing. It doesn’t. UCAS still sends universities anything it receives by 18:00 on 30 June, and only applications after that go into Clearing automatically. We also said naming a university in your statement guarantees instant rejections from your other choices. We can’t find that in UCAS’s guidance, and it’s gone.

8 October 2026, Best Headphones and Accessories: we gave £32 as the price of the Soundcore Q20i, our cheapest over-ear pick, and linked to it on Amazon. That listing was a refurbished one, and we didn’t say so. The link was on the page from 21 September to 7 October. It now goes to the same headphones, brand new, which were £34 on 8 October.

7 October 2026, Setting Up Bills: we said several providers sell nine-month student broadband contracts. None of the eight we could check sells one. The student deals are 12 months, and Virgin Media and Hyperoptic sell rolling monthly ones. We said you need your landlord’s permission to fit a prepayment or smart meter. If you pay the supplier yourself, you don’t. We said direct debit is the cheapest way to pay for energy, and under the price cap that’s prepayment. We told you to pick a joint account that needs several signatures to close. At Lloyds, TSB, Halifax and Monzo either holder can do it alone. Our NUS figure for students whose housing costs had gone up was 68%; the report says 76%. Our broadband table also put ultrafast at 100 Mbps, where Ofcom’s band starts at 300. Fixed.

7 October 2026, Housemate Agreements: we said a housemate agreement protects you from joint liability. It doesn’t. On a joint tenancy the landlord can ask any one of you for the whole rent, and the agreement only helps you get it back from the housemate who owes it. We gave £187 a month as MoneySuperMarket’s 2026 figure for a student household’s utilities. It’s a July 2025 figure for all households. We quoted the £50 cap on a change-of-sharer fee without saying it’s England’s; in Wales and Scotland the fee can’t be charged at all. We also said your students’ union offers free mediation, and only some universities do. Fixed.

7 October 2026, Avoiding Bad Landlords: we told you, three times, to search the national database of rogue landlords. Only councils can see it. What’s public is the council’s licence register and, in London, the Mayor’s checker. We said a landlord has to go through a tribunal to raise your rent. They serve a notice, and the tribunal is where you challenge it. We told you to change the locks if you felt unsafe, on no authority we can find, so that line has gone. So has a statistic about students renting without a viewing, which we couldn’t trace to a source we’d cite. We also put words in three mouths: The Guardian didn’t say councils can’t afford to inspect every rental, the Tenancy Deposit Scheme didn’t say its adjudicators “ignore emotional arguments”, and a Duncan Lewis survey of 1,000 renters didn’t find “thousands” paying for structural repairs. Fixed.

7 October 2026, Repairs and Maintenance Rules: we said the redress schemes can fine a letting agent. They can’t, though they can order compensation. Our worked example had a tenant reclaiming £7,200 after a landlord ignored an improvement notice for six months at £600 a month. The most for that period is £3,600. We described “new rules” that make private landlords bring in a damp professional and meet statutory deadlines. No such rules are in force for private renting in England. We said a landlord must repair a washing machine listed on the inventory, which is only true if your tenancy agreement says so. We said courts award 10% to 50% of the rent as compensation, a range we can’t source. And we had betterment backwards. That’s a landlord ending up better off than before the damage, and it’s what adjudicators won’t award. Fixed.

7 October 2026, Student Tenant Rights: we said that paying a higher rent once means you’ve agreed to it. Under the rules we were describing, an increase takes effect on the date in the notice unless you go to the tribunal first. We told you a landlord can’t evict you because they want to sell. Selling is a legal ground, though not in the first 12 months. We had evictions under the student ground happening only between June and September. It’s the notice that has to end between 1 June and 30 September, and the ground only covers shared houses where every tenant is a student. We said your notice “must match your rent period”; it has to end on a rent day. We also called rent arrears the most common ground for eviction and damp the most common student housing problem, with no source for either. Fixed.

7 October 2026, Deposits and Protection: we said a landlord who allows a pet can charge a higher rent in place of a bigger deposit. Nothing in the rules says that, and a pet deposit counts towards the five-week cap. We said hiding a poor credit history lets a landlord keep your holding deposit, without saying that failing a credit check after giving honest information doesn’t. We said 54% of all deposit disputes are about cleaning; the figure is from one scheme. The 28 days we gave for a dispute is one stage of it. We told you the result can’t be challenged in court. It can, where the adjudicator got the facts or the law wrong. We also said only a solicitor can witness a statutory declaration. A magistrate or commissioner for oaths can too. Fixed.

7 October 2026, Purpose Built Student Accommodation: we said 23% of purpose-built beds in England cost more than the maximum maintenance loan and credited Cushman & Wakefield’s 2025 report, which says 17%. Our worked example ended on a shortfall of “nearly £1,000”. On its own figures it’s £390. Four numbers had no source we could find and have gone: a £255 Manchester average, rents rising 7.5% every year, vacancy above 10% in three cities and £1,000 cashback offers. We gave £295 a week as the top of the London range, and it’s the average. We said private halls want a UK guarantor on a set salary; iQ and Student Roost take guarantors abroad. We also gave late May as the usual deadline for a guaranteed university room, when none of the universities we checked set one before 30 June. Fixed.

7 October 2026, University Halls Guide: we said the payment to accept a room is usually £150 to £300. At the four universities we checked for 2026/27 it ran from £250 to £550. We said an insurance choice never comes with a guaranteed room; Leeds and Edinburgh both gave one. We said every university makes you wait until you’ve firmly accepted, and Birmingham and Edinburgh don’t. We told you the system gives you your fifth choice if the first four are full, when you can be offered a room you didn’t list. We also stated as general rules things we couldn’t source or that one university does: a 72-hour wait, a nine-digit student number, a doctor’s letter, a lottery for popular halls. The dates have moved on to 2027 entry as well, which is a routine update. Fixed.

5 October 2026, First Aid Basics: we told you to keep burn gel in the first aid kit. St John Ambulance says not to put creams or gels on a burn, so the kit list now has cling film, for covering a burn once it’s cooled. We recommended the St John Ambulance app. It’s been withdrawn, and the free one that works offline is the British Red Cross app. We said St John’s free training sessions run across the UK; they’re in England only. We said you could tackle a fire yourself if it was tiny. The Home Office advice is not to. We also credited St John Ambulance with a figure for household injuries from knives and hobs (nearly 30%) that we couldn’t find in anything it has published. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Home Safety and Security: we said 70% of burglars get in through a door and dated it 2025. That’s an ONS line from 2017, and the latest survey figure is 76%. We told you to check for a BS3621 deadlock on the front door. That lock needs a key from the inside. A door you’d escape through in a fire should have the thumb-turn version, BS8621. We said taking the batteries out of a smoke alarm is illegal and voids your tenancy. It can break your agreement, and in a shared house in England it can be an offence, but it doesn’t void the tenancy. Our table also gave landlords repair deadlines that the law doesn’t set for private renting. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Food Safety and Storage: we said never to keep potatoes in the fridge. The Food Standards Agency has dropped that advice, and they last longer in there. We said cooked vegetables keep three to four days in the fridge; the limit for leftovers is two. We said an egg that floats has gone off. The float test shows how old an egg is and can’t tell you whether it’s safe. We also said splashes from washing raw chicken travel up to 50cm. No current official page gives that figure. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Best Budget Recipes: we said the lentil curry keeps four days in the fridge and the sausage casserole three. The Food Standards Agency’s limit for leftovers is two days. We said swapping half the mince for beans halves the protein cost. On our own prices it saves about a third. We said NatWest’s £146 a month grocery average includes takeaways. It’s supermarket spending only. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Avoiding Bill Disputes: we said prepayment meters charge higher unit rates. Under the current price cap they’re the cheapest way to pay per unit. We said you need your landlord’s written permission to swap a prepayment meter for a credit meter. You don’t need permission if you pay the supplier directly. We said being on the Priority Services Register stops a supplier disconnecting you. It doesn’t. We said a bill-splitting company chases only the housemate who hasn’t paid. Fused and UniHomes hold everyone on the package liable. We said students pay for water wherever they live. In Scotland a house of full-time students is exempt. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Splitting Bills with Housemates: we said Virgin Media and BT sell nine-month student broadband contracts, so you don’t pay over the summer. Theirs are 12 months. We suggested opening a joint student bank account for bills. Banks don’t offer those, and an ordinary joint account links your credit files. We said being a named contact on a bill builds your credit history, which it doesn’t. We said that with a bill-splitting company the lead tenant never has to cover a shortfall. Fused and UniHomes can split an unpaid share across the house. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Energy Saving Tips: we said every rented home in the UK must have an EPC rating of at least E. That rule covers England and Wales only. We told you to switch a PlayStation or Xbox from Rest Mode to Energy Saver, a setting neither console has. We also costed five minutes in the microwave at under 2p, using its cooking power. It draws about half as much again from the socket, so it’s about 3p. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Cleaning Checklist: we said the Tenant Fees Act stops landlords in England and Wales charging for a professional clean. The Act covers England only, and Wales has its own. We said mould is never wear and tear. Mould caused by a fault with the building is the landlord’s responsibility. We said 54% of all UK deposit disputes are caused by cleaning. The figure is for one scheme in England and Wales, and it counts disputes that included a cleaning claim. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Early Entry (Medicine and Oxbridge): we said missing the 18:00 deadline on 15 October “by a single minute results in automatic rejection” and that UCAS grants no extensions. UCAS’s deadlines page says neither. It says it’s “unusual” for universities to consider late applications to courses with that deadline, and that you should ask the universities whether they have vacancies first. Oxford’s own wording is that the deadline “must be strictly adhered to”. Fixed.

5 October 2026, Student Loan Repayment Plans: the plan list put everyone who started from August 2023 on Plan 5 and ended Plan 2 at July 2023 for England and Wales alike. That’s only right for England. Anyone funded by Student Finance Wales who started in or after September 2012 is on Plan 2, 2023 and later starters included, and Student Finance NI borrowers, who weren’t listed at all, are on Plan 1. The comparison table also filed pre-1998 loans under Plan 1. Those are the older mortgage-style loans, which run on separate rules. Fixed.

3 October 2026, Managing Stress at Uni and Mental Health at University: both guides said you need a medical evidence form filled in by your GP to apply for Disabled Students’ Allowance. A report or letter from your doctor or another medical professional does the job, and the evidence form is an alternative. The mental health guide also said the university won’t pass what you disclose on to lecturers without your permission. It’s shared on a need-to-know basis, and that can include academic staff. Fixed.

3 October 2026, Where to Get Help: we said Student Minds runs support groups and a text service. It runs neither; it publishes advice, and the text line is Shout on 85258. The guide also said an unprotected deposit goes to the small claims court, when gov.uk’s route is an application to your local county court. And we said a missed deadline is an automatic zero; that depends on your university. Fixed.

3 October 2026, Nightlife and Safety: we credited North Yorkshire Police data from 2025 with the figure that 80% of spiking incidents happen in public places. It’s national police data for 2022/23, which that force was quoting. The guide told you an unpaid safe-taxi fare gets your student account blocked so you can’t re-register or graduate. No scheme we checked says that; the Aberdeen one warns that misuse can lead to a misconduct case. Fixed.

3 October 2026, Dating and Relationships at Uni: we said the average single student spends £111 a month on dating. That’s a Barclays figure for UK adults of all ages who date. We quoted a 60% success rate for long-distance relationships as a 2025 Yugo finding, when it traces back to a 2018 US poll. We also quoted a 20% figure for students meeting a long-term partner on campus, which we couldn’t trace past a film promotion. Both percentages are gone. Fixed.

3 October 2026, Part Time Work and Uni Balance: we said a £10,830 loan less £7,500 rent leaves roughly £2,700. It leaves about £3,300. The guide said rolled-up holiday pay has to be written into your contract; for irregular-hours staff it just has to be a separate line on every payslip. We told you breaking the 20-hour visa limit means immediate cancellation and deportation, when the rules say a visa may be cancelled. We also put a limit of an hour or two on unpaid trial shifts. The law doesn’t set one. Fixed.

3 October 2026, Student Union Guide: we said NUS represents around 600 students’ unions. NUS says around 400. We gave the TOTUM+ fee as £24.99 in one place and £14.99 in another; one year is £14.99. Fixed.

3 October 2026, Joining Societies: we said 48% of graduates call societies the best way to make friends, citing Yugo (2025). In Yugo’s undated survey of 1,500 UK graduates, societies came third on 48%, behind talking to as many people as you can (65%) and freshers week (57%). We gave Taylor & Francis (2023) as the source for the claim that about half of students join sports and societies. It’s from Advance HE’s UK Engagement Survey, which put it at 52% in 2018. The guide said you can’t get a membership refund. Unions we checked give you 14 days. Fixed.

2 October 2026, Entry Requirements Explained: we said an A and two Cs at A level comes to 120 UCAS points. It’s 112, which is 48 for the A and 32 for each C. Fixed.

2 October 2026, What to Bring to Uni Checklist: we told you to pack a door wedge. Some halls ban them, Cumbria and Loughborough among them, so check your halls rules before you buy one. Fixed.

2 October 2026, Grants, Scholarships and Bursaries guide: we said to apply for the NHS Learning Support Fund when you accept your offer. You apply once you’ve enrolled. Fixed.

2 October 2026, Repairs and Maintenance Rules guide: we said Awaab’s Law now applies to private rentals, with landlords made to investigate damp and mould within 14 days and start repairs within seven. It only covers social housing in England so far; extending it to private renting is still waiting on a consultation, with no date set. We also said the law makes landlords fix a lost boiler within 24 hours. For private renters the legal test is a reasonable time, not a fixed deadline. Fixed.

2 October 2026, Student Tenant Rights guide: the same Awaab’s Law mistake, plus a line saying a Section 21 notice served before 30 April 2026 stays valid. That stopped being true after 31 July 2026, the last day a landlord could take one of those notices to court. Fixed.

2 October 2026, Student Finance Eligibility guide: we said the lowest maintenance loan for a student living away from home outside London was around £4,915 in 2026/27. It’s £5,048, and a £45,000 household gets £7,739, not “roughly £7,500”. Fixed.

2 October 2026, UK Student Money Statistics: we called the 2026/27 tuition fee rise, from £9,535 to £9,790, a 2.71% increase. It’s 2.7%. Fixed.

2 October 2026, Student Discounts guide: we said Santander’s free 16-25 Railcard offer ran until 16 October 2026. That date belongs to Santander’s student prize draw; the Railcard has no end date on Santander’s page. Fixed.

1 October 2026, Disabled Students’ Allowance guide: we said you had to apply within nine months of the start of the academic year or lose that year’s funding. DSA has no fixed deadline in England; you’re asked to apply as soon as is reasonably practicable. We also said you book the needs assessment yourself. In fact Study Tech or Capita get in touch with you. Fixed.

1 October 2026, House Viewing Checklist: we said Awaab’s Law makes landlords fix damp and mould within set deadlines. In England it only covers social housing, so private student landlords aren’t bound by it yet. We also said a boiler must be serviced every year by law. The legal duty is an annual gas safety check, and the landlord has to give you a copy of the certificate. Fixed.

1 October 2026, Soft Skills guide: we said a CBI survey found over 80% of employers rate communication above degree subject. No CBI survey says that. The closest, a 2024 CBI Economics survey for University Alliance, found 55% rate transferable skills as important, against 52% for the subject studied. Fixed.

1 October 2026, Healthy Routines guide: we credited Student Minds with a figure that 37% of applicants had experienced anxiety. It came from the Unite Students Applicant Index, which now puts it at 35%. And the NHS never said two litres of water a day. It says six to eight glasses of fluid. Fixed.

1 October 2026, Building Confidence guide: we quoted Universities UK as finding that 73% of first-in-family graduates said university helped them overcome imposter syndrome. The survey asked whether their degree gave them the confidence to apply for jobs without feeling like an imposter. We also used a 56% graduate-readiness figure that came from a US survey. We’ve reworded the first to match the question and cut the second.

1 October 2026, Volunteering guide: we said the Equality Act legally requires charities to make volunteer roles accessible. Most volunteers without a contract aren’t covered by those parts of the Act. We also credited HESA with research it has never published, so that’s gone. And we said NCVO lists volunteer roles. It doesn’t; it points you to the sites that do. Fixed.

1 October 2026, University Services guide: we said every university adds employability awards to a Higher Education Achievement Report. Not every university issues one. We also cited a 67% employer figure. We couldn’t find where it came from, so it’s out. Fixed.

1 October 2026, Registering with a GP guide: we gave 39 million as the NHS App’s user count for January 2026, when that was the December 2025 figure. The guide now gives 41 million, the count at the end of March 2026. We’ve also removed a 29% student mental distress figure credited to Student Minds that we couldn’t find in anything Student Minds has published. Fixed.

29 September 2026, Travel Discounts guide: we said the 16-25 Railcard works across the UK and that Advance tickets are strictly non-refundable. The Railcard covers Great Britain, not Northern Ireland, and you can get a refund on an Advance ticket if your train is cancelled or delayed and you don't travel. We also said any Turing Scheme student could get a travel grant. It's only for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Fixed.

29 September 2026, Graduate Discounts guide: we said Apple's education pricing often still works for a year after you graduate, and that Dell runs graduate vouchers worth up to 20%. Neither is true. Both limit education pricing to current students. And we said Barclays had stopped taking graduate applications, when its Higher Education Account is still open. Fixed.

29 September 2026, Graduate Discounts guide: we said CMI and BCS membership can be free for new graduates and that IET student membership is free. CMI Affiliate is £180 a year, BCS has no free period, and IET student membership is £36. Fixed.

29 September 2026, Best Student Discounts guide: we said Apple takes 10% off Mac and iPad. It's a set education price, about £100 off a £1,299 MacBook Air, which works out nearer 8%. Fixed.

29 September 2026, Cybersecurity guide: in a section on student finance scams, we said official government emails end in gov.uk. Student Loans Company emails come from slc.co.uk, so that test would have made a real email look fake. The guide now says to skip the link and log in directly. And we said an ICO finding was about universities. It was about schools, and it's gone. Fixed.

29 September 2026, Cloud Storage and Software guides: we said a university Microsoft 365 account comes with 1TB of OneDrive. Since February 2024 the free education plan has been capped at 100GB, and your university sets the exact limit. The software guide claimed Turnitin checks every submission for AI writing. It only does where a university has switched that on. Fixed.

29 September 2026, Graduate CV guide: we gave 7.4 seconds as how long any recruiter spends on a CV before deciding. It's from one 2018 US eye-tracking study of a first skim, and the guide now says so. Fixed.

28 September 2026, Tenancy Agreements guide: the questions at the end still described the rules from before the Renters’ Rights Act. They said Section 21 was being phased out, that a landlord could raise rent with one month’s notice, and that you could negotiate a break clause. Section 21 ended on 1 May 2026, rent rises now need at least two months’ notice and can happen only once a year, and house-share tenancies no longer have fixed terms to break. The page also told you a housemate who wants to leave must find a replacement; in fact one joint tenant’s notice ends the tenancy for everyone. Fixed.

27 September 2026, TOTUM vs UNiDAYS vs Student Beans guide: we said students who fell for scams lost an average of £300, citing NatWest's 2025 Student Living Index. NatWest's figure is £287.60; the £300 came from a different report about 18 to 24-year-olds in general. Fixed.

27 September 2026, Restaurant and Retail Discounts guide: we said UNiDAYS keeps a graduate plan going for one year after you finish. It's three years, under the name GRADLiFE. Fixed.

27 September 2026, Food Delivery Discounts guide: we said Pizza Hut's 20% Sunday-to-Thursday student discount worked on delivery. That offer was for eating in at Pizza Hut restaurants. The current delivery deal is 50% off pizzas when you spend £15. Fixed.

25 September 2026, Personal Statement Examples guide: we got three things wrong about how UCAS checks statements. We said it runs AI detection software on every statement and that a flag usually means automatic rejection. UCAS doesn't say it uses an AI detector at all. You declare the statement isn't copied or written by AI, and UCAS warns that passing off AI-written work as your own could count as cheating and cost you offers. We also said copying caught by Copycatch means immediate rejection. It doesn't. Statements more than 30% similar to others are reviewed, UCAS tells you and your universities, and each university decides what to do. And the 35-minute timeout we mentioned applies to the referee's reference screen, not the applicant's side of UCAS Hub. All fixed.

23 September 2026, Best Student Phone Plans guide: three claims were wrong. We said around one in five UK households were struggling to afford their mobile bill. Ofcom's October 2025 figure is 5% for mobile, and about one in four for any communications service. We called 084 and 087 numbers premium-rate at £1 or more a minute, but they're service numbers and cost less; only 09 numbers are premium-rate. And we said new phones have to be sold SIM-free. The actual rule, since 17 December 2021, is that networks can't sell locked phones. All fixed.

23 September 2026, Broadband Comparison for Graduates guide: we said broadband social tariffs give you exactly the same speeds as standard packages. Not all of them do. Most run at 30Mbps or more, but some are capped versions of the standard deal. The price range was out too: it's about £12.50 to £24 a month, not £12.50 to £20. Fixed.

20 August 2026, Best Student Discounts guide: three figures were out of date. The National Express Young Persons Coachcard was listed at £15 a year; it is £30. The TfL 18+ Student Oyster administration fee was listed at £20; it is £22. And the Apple back-to-school offer was described as free AirPods; for 2026 (13 August to 22 October) Apple gives a free Apple Gift Card on qualifying Mac and iPad purchases instead. All fixed.

17 August 2026, Best Student Accommodation Websites guide: the UniHomes section said the platform does not list PBSA or halls. That was wrong. UniHomes lists private halls in many university cities, which you can filter to when you search. Fixed.

4 August 2026, Best Student Phone Plans guide: the VOXI section said the £12 plan adds unlimited music and video streaming. Unlimited video actually starts on the £15 plan; the £12 plan adds unlimited music only. Fixed.

23 July 2026, Graduate Discounts guide: a tip said you could buy the 3-year 16-25 Railcard just before your 26th birthday. You can't. The 3-year version has to be bought before your 24th birthday, after which only the 1-year card is sold. Bought in time, it stays valid until the day before your 27th. Fixed.

23 July 2026, Travel Discounts and Travel Cards Setup guides: both listed the National Express Young Persons Coachcard at £15 a year. It has gone up to £30 a year plus £3 postage. Fixed.

16 July 2026, Student laptops guide: the FAQ said the budget Chromebook starts at around £149. The right figure, used everywhere else on the page, is around £200. Fixed.

Page updated 15 October 2026.