Steer towards British university students (4)
I believe the answer is:
bull
'steer' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'british university students' is the wordplay.
'british' becomes 'b' (abbreviation e.g. in BBC).
'university' becomes 'U' (abbreviation for university).
'students' becomes 'LL' (two abbreviations for learner).
'b'+'u'+'ll'='BULL'
'towards' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bull that I've seen before include "Dartboard's centre" , "Male elephant, say" , "Male animal" , "Male bovine - target's centre" , "Male walrus" .)