The report 'Healthy students, healthy life' by Carmel Cefai and Liberato Camilleri highlighted some of the positive and negative characteristics of University students' lives. For example:

• 78 per cent feel happy at University, but about 25 per cent are less happy; first year students in general and humanities students in particular are most likely to be happy.

• 47 per cent do not find their course motivating and engaging, particularly civil science, female and final year students.

• Only 29 per cent see themselves as actively involved in learning, while 40 per cent describe themselves as passive students, particularly first year students and civil sciences/ humanities students.

• Only about six per cent actively participate in extra-curricular activities;

• The majority of students attend lectures regularly, but 14 per cent miss lectures frequently because of lack of interest.

• 56 per cent said they are not involved in decisions, while only 24 per cent said they are frequently encouraged to express their views during lectures.

• Students find most help and support from their class colleagues, followed by lecturing staff and non-academic staff respectively.

• The vast majority of students find their colleagues very supportive and helpful.

• 40 per cent see academic staff as unfriendly and unsupportive, with the civil sciences students more likely to perceive them in this way.

• 47 per cent are not satisfied with the support provided by the non-academic staff.

• About 11 per cent said they experienced emotional abuse at least once during the academic year; three per cent experienced sexual abuse and 2.4 per cent physical abuse.

• Male students are more likely to experience physical harassment, while more women experience emotional abuse.

• Physical and sexual abuse is more likely to be carried out by student colleagues.

• The vast majority of students did not report any form of discrimination on a frequent basis, but five to 11 per cent reported occasional discrimination on the basis of language, social class, physical appearance, gender and age.

• Men are more likely to be discriminated on the basis of social class and physical appearance; women experience more age-, gender- and language-related discrimination.

• Discrimination on the basis of disability, race, religion and sexual orientation seems to be quite rare or inexistent.

This is the final part of a three-part article on the report.