Lovestruck Stonyhurst College Teens Flee To Caribbean Because They Were 'Sick...
A pair of "lovestruck" teens have run away from school and fled to the Caribbean because they were "sick of the rain", prompting an international manhunt to track them down. The two 16-year-olds were...
View ArticleThe United States Is Selectively Slow, Too Bad for the Philippines
Lets look at some numbers from the most recent natural disaster, Typhoon Haiyan. The Philippine typhoon that hit November 8 has racked up a current death toll of almost 6,166, while 1,785 have still...
View ArticleThe Spotlight Hits You
I am so scared. I am terrified that I will fail. Those are the two sentences I am afraid to say out loud. I am terrified to admit that I don't think I'm good enough. It is a daunting thought... can I...
View ArticleI'm From Birmingham, Not Burrrrminnnum!
On my first day of university I felt prepared for a decadent feast of small talk and inane information gathering. I'm sure you know the drill: "Hi, and where are you from?"; "What are you studying?";...
View ArticleFounder of No More Page 3 Visits Warwick
>Lucy-Anne Holmes, founder of the now famous No More Page 3, visited Warwick last week to motivate and inspire the already-active Warwick campaign. The founder of the nation-wide movement made a...
View ArticleLOOK: Mean Girls Jewellery! It's. So. FETCH
Schoolgirls, schoolboys, university students, anyone who has ever watched Mean Girls and loved it, hold on to your chest-hair wigs: Mean Girls jewellery is here. And it's SO FETCH. The range, from...
View ArticleOxford University Names And Shames Worst Performing Students In Leaked Email
A college at Oxford University is facing the wrath of its students after naming and shaming the worst performing undergraduates in an email. A member of staff at University College was left "mortified"...
View ArticleWhy Don't UK Students Want to Donate?
Last Sunday marked four years since an earthquake struck Haiti, causing massive devastation to the infrastructure and taking the lives of more than 100,000 victims. The extent of the tragedy, and the...
View ArticleThe Most Interesting Places To Go To College
There's a lot more to finding the best place to go to college than just whether a school is considered the best at something. College is a time to find yourself, to enjoy your youth, to make and...
View ArticleThe 8 Things You Learn to Appreciate After Moving Back Home
Moving home can be soul-destroying after having your own freedom, space, money, remote control.. we'll stop rubbing it in now. But there ARE positives to moving back in with the rents. Promise..
View ArticleWATCH: Imperial College Students' Call Me Maybe And One Pound Fish Mashup Is...
Hand your crown over Loughborough SU, stand down Birmingham University's, there's a new king of cringey badness in town: the chemical engineering department at Imperial College London. As if our ears...
View ArticleSpring Semester for the College at Chester: an Ode to WAC
Instagram: washcoll "Loneliness is getting cold, I need you here in front of me!" The hourly emails about non-existent spam, the perennially-understocked Dunkin Donuts on High Street, and patchy 4G....
View ArticleGossip Stories Are So Popular! Why Do the British Public Love to Speculate on...
"Juggling a degree in Journalism and a high powered job in sandwich making it's hard to believe that Molly McGreevy has time for a man in her life, but the 19 year old was spotted out in Sheffield with...
View ArticleHow Propagandists Manipulate the Facts to Sell the University Dream
It was the blog's lackadaisical attitude towards student wellbeing that got to me. The way it claims that higher education has "been shown" to benefit the 'health and well-being' of students, without...
View ArticleDoes Business Hijack International Development?
Rose Beale, Events Officer of Cambridge Development Initiative, explores the issue ahead of Friday's Forum. There are a new cast of heroes and villains on the international development scene. They are...
View ArticleFitness Apps Have Risks
Since New Year magazines poured into our shops and onto our mobile devices they've all seemed keen to tell us about one thing: fitness apps to help you with that 'New Years resolution'. In many ways it...
View ArticleWhy the Energy Technology Revolution Hasn't Happened
*Robert Perrons [2001] was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received a PhD in Engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Queensland University of...
View ArticleHPV Vaccinations Should Be For Men Too
Immunisation against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) has been commonplace in women since 2008 with a mainly school-based initiative. It is important to receive the HPV injection as it features in a...
View ArticleLOOK: University Recruits Cute Pug To Help Students With Exam Stress
Feeling stressed from exams? Not coping with coursework? Then perhaps you'll be wishing you were a student at Glasgow Caledonian University, which recruited a cute pug to help students relax. The...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Believe That Anything Is Possible?
I have always believed that anything is possible and that if you really want something, you'll find a way to make it happen. It's this very belief that made me think it would be a good idea to attempt...
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