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News and press releases

Universities, colleges, employers, training providers, research groups, publishers, education technology companies and PR agencies: send us your news. A new course or program, a research result, a funding award, a scholarship, a campus project, a training program or a new tool for students.

What to send

• The release itself, in the email or as a Word file or a link.
• The date and time it goes out, and any embargo.
• One or more photos you own or have the right to share, with a caption and a credit for each.
• The name and email of someone who can answer questions.

Subject line: News: your headline

Q&As

We interview people who help students and trainees learn: writing tutors, librarians, study skills advisers, researchers, training managers, apprenticeship mentors, and the people who build the tools students use. Suggest yourself or a colleague.

What to send

• Who it is: name, role and organization.
• What they work on, in two or three lines.
• Three or four things they could talk about.
• A recent photo of them that you have the right to share.

We send the questions by email or talk by phone or video. Answers run in the person's own words, edited for length, and we check quotes back with them before the Q&A runs.

Subject line: Q&A: name, organization

Contributed articles

We publish bylined articles by people who know their subject first hand: how to structure a literature review, what markers look for in a lab report, how to plan a dissertation year, how a writing center changed the way it works with students.

What to send

• A pitch first, not a finished piece: the topic, what a student will learn, and why you are the one to write it, in a few lines.
• Once we say yes: 700 to 1,500 words, original and not published anywhere else, including your own website or social media.
• Practical and based on evidence: figures with the study or dataset they come from, examples with names and places.
• Written by a named person, not an organization, with a headshot and a bio of two or three sentences.
• A line saying whether you or your employer sells, funds or gains from anything the article mentions. We print it at the foot of the article.

Subject line: Article pitch: your topic

Programs and opportunities

Employers, training providers, colleges and funders: tell us about a graduate program, an internship, an apprenticeship, a training place, a scholarship or a course that readers can apply for.

What to send

• What it is, who can apply and where it runs.
• The dates: when applications open and close, and when it starts.
• What a place involves, in plain terms, and how many places there are.
• A photo of the people, the place or the work, with a credit.

Subject line: Opportunity: program name

Employers and training providers

Apprenticeship and internship programs, graduate programs, training academies and workforce programs in any field, from renewable energy and engineering to the trades, finance, technology and healthcare: tell us how you train people. A new academy, a larger intake, what a program has achieved, or the person who runs it.

What to send

• What the program is, who it trains and where.
• Figures you can source: places, completion or hiring rates, and the years they cover.
• The name and email of someone who runs the program or can speak for it.
• A photo of trainees, apprentices or the work, with a credit.

Subject line: Opportunities: your headline

Research and data

New findings on how students study, write, borrow, work or live, from a study, a survey or your own institution's figures.

What to send

• A link to the full report or dataset, not only a summary.
• How the figures were gathered, in a line or two, and the years they cover.
• The publication date and any embargo.
• A contact who can answer questions on the method.

Subject line: Research: your subject