Yeonmi Park, The Girl Who Escaped North Korea, Warns World Of Country's...
On the surface, Yeonmi Park looks like any other university student; fashionable, eager, ambitious. Except she is North Korean, and is one of the lucky ones to have escaped the country's tyrannical...
View ArticleYeonmi Park, The Girl Who Escaped North Korea, Warns World Of Country's...
On the surface, Yeonmi Park looks like any other university student; fashionable, eager, ambitious. Except she is North Korean, and is one of the lucky ones to have escaped the country's tyrannical...
View ArticleYoung Entrepreneur Of The Week: Ed Hardy
Ed Hardy, 17, was inspired by a love of skiing to go into business with his friend, Kit Logan, setting up an app that they bill as the "ultimate mountain companion app". The pair's app, Edge, can track...
View ArticleHarry Lodge: Playing Poker Has Paid Off My Tuition Fees Three Times Over
Meet Harry Lodge, the Exeter student who’s earned enough cash playing poker to pay off his tuition fees three times over. The third year Economics student got into poker while at boarding school,...
View ArticleWatch Sir Ian McKellen Tell It Straight To Students - In Full Gandalf Mode,...
It's always going to be difficult motivating yourself to revise, but there's no-one better to get you in gear than Sir Ian McKellen shouting at you through a window. Or rather, Gandalf. The Lord of the...
View ArticleWhy I'll Never Sign Up to 3G
A few days ago I was in a hotel, about to sit down for a long internet browse, when I realised the WiFi wasn't working. This was, of course, a disaster. What about all the stuff I was missing? All the...
View ArticleNorth Korean Survivor Yeonmi Park Implores World To Act In Harrowing Speech
A 20-year-old woman who managed to escape the atrocities of North Korea has implored the world to help save her country's people from a "holocaust". Openly crying, Yeonmi Park addressed delegates at...
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Alexander Wang and H&M Collaboration; A Moment to Think About Fashion,...
Yes it's true, Alexander Wang and H&M are collaborating. It was the French Sociologists Bourdieu that first highlighted through surveys conducted in the 1960's that 'fashion has to be brought on...
View ArticleSouthampton Student Gets Her Head Stuck In Bottle Bin After 'Looking For More...
A student was left rather red-faced after having to be rescued by firefighters when she got her head stuck in a bottle bank. Southampton Solent student, who has been identified by various media reports...
View ArticleInternships - How Do You Draw the Line Between Nurturing Talent and...
Earlier this month, Casa Morada the creative decor company was reported to HMRC after advertising six full time roles that would in return offer nothing - other than 'experience'. Unsurprisingly the...
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How to Avoid Wildlife Scams in South East Asia
Original image courtesy of Sascha Kohlman There are plenty of wildlife experiences that might draw you to South East Asia, with its brilliant diversity of tropical species and being home to some of...
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Seven Quirky Ways to Travel the UK Without Breaking the Bank
If you fancy exploring the British Isles there are plenty of ways you can do it without having to spend the budget of a small army. The most conventional would be to stay in hotels or bed and...
View ArticleSchool Cancels Christmas Party After Students Get So Drunk They End Up In...
A school has cancelled its Christmas party after its students got so drunk at a start of term party they ended up in hospital. Hills Road Sixth Form, a prestigious college in Cambridge, was hosting a...
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Efua Dorkenoo: The Woman Who Never Stopped
I remember the first time I heard about the legendary Efua Dorkenoo. It was 2007 and I was 9 years old, sitting in my back garden in Lagos, Nigeria, clutching my copy of her book "Cutting the Rose:...
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St Andrews Students Frolic In Foam At Annual Raisin Monday
As they frolic in the foam, the thought of insurmountable mountains of debt and a bleak employment landscape couldn't be further from their minds. Leaping like spring lambs in the creamy bubbles, St...
View ArticleEbola Fears: Harvard Students Must Ask University's Permission To Travel To...
Students at Harvard University have to ask permission to travel to countries stricken by ebola as fears it will spread across the globe grow. Along with teachers and any other university affiliates,...
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Reducing Tuition Fees to £6,000 Won't Win Labour the Student Vote
In the 2010 general election, many students voted for the Liberal Democrats after being falsely promised that they would not raise tuition fees. However, after just months of being in coalition with...
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Why Guatemala Should Be On Your Holiday Radar
Mexico - tick. Belize- tick. Next stop Guatemala. I've been travelling for almost two months and have spent the last week exploring the beautiful country of Guatemala in Central America. I didn't know...
View ArticleSupply and Demand: Addressing Skills Shortages in the Current Climate
Increasingly direct links between our education system and industry operators are helping business leaders get the support they need to sustain a robust and competitive economy, at what is a crucial...
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Americanizing My British Accent: An Identity Crisis
"You actually say 'maths' instead of 'math'?" Colour. *Color. "So... I hope you don't mind if I ask you a personal question. Did you live in the U.K. earlier? No? Australia? No? Then where does the...
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