When Students Get Fancy Dress Costumes Really Very Wrong
Fancy dress is always a bit of a minefield, and no more so than during the Halloween festive period. If you're umming and aahing over whether you should be "outrageous" or "controversial", then we...
View ArticleThis Is What Oregon Students Do If They're Bored At A Football Game - And You...
Watching sport can be one of the most exhilarating, electrifying, fingernail-biting things ever. But.. *whispers* it does get kinda boring sometimes. Thanks to these Oregon students, if ever you're...
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Young Entrepreneur Of The Week: Giles Mitchell
Giles Mitchell, 23, was inspired to start a business by his grumbly tummy, after one too many trips to the vending machine to get a standard chocolate bar. Keen to find a way to make snacking much more...
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Pussy Riot To Speak At Cambridge Union
Members of the Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot are to speak at the Cambridge Union in November, which has previously played host to figures such as Julian Assange and Ronald Reagan. The union...
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Five Other 'Norman Tebbit Ideas' For Dealing With Neets
Ageing Thatcherite Norman Tebbit, doyen of the Tory right and, more recently, harbinger of a “Lesbian queen”, has given a crackpot staid suggestion of how to deal with the problem of “Neets” – those...
View ArticleEnd Unpaid Internships by 2020? No, End Them Now
Yes! Someone with considerable political clout has said publicly that unpaid internships should be abolished! But, hang on... what's this? Alan Milburn's new report for the Social Mobility Commission...
View ArticleStudent Jailed For Slapping Sleeping Woman In The Face With His Penis
A student has been jailed for slapping a sleeping woman in the face with his penis while his friend filmed the indecent act on his phone. John Luke Dale, a 21-year-old criminology undergraduate who...
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Costa Rica: A Spectrum of Colours
Costa Rica has, in recent decades, emerged with one of the best tourism infrastructures in the world and a focus on ecological tourism that is central to the award-winning sustainable tourism that is...
View ArticleDon't Call Me 'Millenial'
Today's language won't speak to the next generation, say Harriet Kingaby and Jen Katan. So here we are, the millennial generation. Those that had our first snog, beer, or fag as the world quaked in the...
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To the Northern Lights and Beyond
Seeing the northern lights is high up on many bucket lists, and as the only natural light display in the world it's not hard to see why. Every year thousands of people travel to Iceland, Sweden,...
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Backpacking Australia? Here Are 6 Places You May Not Have Thought To Go...
Australia is huge and there aren't many people to fill it, so the idea of 'off-the-beaten-track' can conjure up a plethora of destinations. There truly is so much to explore down under and they don't...
View ArticleNevada School Lets Students Pose With Guns In Yearbook Photos
A school in Nevada is allowing its students to pose with guns and hunting weapons in their yearbooks - as long as its in good taste. The Broken Bow School board voted unanimously to allow senior...
View ArticleWin £200 Worth Of Urban Outfitters Vouchers
We’ve teamed up with the discount website www.VoucherCodesPro.co.uk (Money Saving Heroes on Facebook) to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a £200 Urban Outfitters gift voucher. With the...
View ArticleZimbabwe University Bans Students From Kissing
The University of Zimbabwe has banned kissing or hugging on campus and anyone found engaging in such activities would be immediately evicted from their halls of residence. Students are in uproar at the...
View ArticleDoes the UK University System Help Our Future Artists?
On starting a fine art degree five years ago, my head of course gave an introductory speech. She told us about her experience of art college, twenty five years previously. About passionate tutors...
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Get Lucky
We were told we could do anything. We were told to follow our dreams. And here we are: grown up, qualified and utterly confused. Recently, I popped into my old school to do some casual interviews...
View ArticleThe Fashionable Student: What You Need to Know About Winter Clothes Shopping
As the days get colder, we certainly don't need Game of Thrones to tell us winter is coming. So, add the start of winter and wind tunnel like treks across campus and you'll undoubtedly get that mini...
View ArticleFootball Culture Trivialises Sexual Violence
This week Chedwyn Evans, the former Sheffield United striker, was released from prison after serving half of a five-year sentence for rape. Sheffield United have made no public demonstration of...
View ArticleTeachers - It's Time to Sharpen Your Digital Skills
Another September, another school year.... But 2014 brought something new: coding as part of the school curriculum in the UK. This is great news for students, of course - but should we do even more to...
View ArticleHome Office Student Visa System Slammed, Politicians Accused Of 'Cheap,...
The government's refusal to exclude international students from net migration figures took another battering on Thursday as politicians were accused of catering to public opinion with "cheap, pathetic...
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