Students’ use of counselling services at the University of Oxford has soared over the past decade, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

The number of undergraduate and postgraduate students accessing counselling services at the institution has shot up by 136 and 172 per cent respectively since 2003-04.

The university attributed the rise to more students being prepared to seek help, while an expert in higher education counselling said that such a trend was not unusual and visible across the Russell Group.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.