What Happened When Jimmy Fallon And Dwayne Johnson 'The Rock' Graduated In 1989
Jimmy Fallon and Dwayne Johnson went back in time to 1989 to deliver a graduation speech, pretending to be high school students with the two lowest GPAs. It's comedy gold. PS - The Rock totally suits...
View ArticleNew Programming GCSE To Be Introduced So Students Can Learn How To Create The...
Students are to be taught how to create the next Facebook after a new programming GCSE was announced which will teach teens about online viruses, hackers and computing skills. Exam board OCR says 60%...
View ArticleHistoric Marriage Equality Referendum in Ireland: You could cut the tension...
Thousands of LGBT people in Ireland are having their lives and future happiness put to the public vote today. For those of us who have canvassed, gone door to door knocking and phoning friends and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anxiety: What Is It? What's It Like To Have It? And How Can You Cope With It?
Contrary to what you might think, anxiety is a normal experience. It's a protective mechanism which everyone has - and if we didn't have it, then we wouldn't function too well. But the boundary between...
View ArticleWhy the EU Referendum Is the Perfect Time for Votes at 16
In 2014, Scotland made history. They didn't vote for independence - but they created a national conversation which engaged all its citizens, transcending barriers of political affiliation, class - and...
View ArticleWhy Eurovision Should Unite Over Anti-Gay Laws, Once Again
Last year an Austrian drag queen captured the attention of an entire continent and dedicated her Eurovision victory to everyone who "believed in a future of peace and freedom". Conchita Wurst's win was...
View ArticleIt's Time to Give Young People a Break!
We're only a couple of weeks into the exam period and already there's been a flurry of news stories around how exam pressures are affecting young people and their parents. It's true; as a teacher I'm...
View Article'Mad Max' Is an Action Movie Posing as a Feminist Movie Posing as an Action...
I like action movies. I do. I like a good car chase, or a shootout, or a parkour pursuit over the rooftops of an uncredited middle-eastern metropolis. I like to see a man in a suit kicking over a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why I'm Fundraising for My Student Newspaper
It's tough being a student journalist. People make assumptions about you, it involves hours of unpaid work, and to top it all off, you have a degree to do as well. I remember walking home at 4am in the...
View ArticleWhy Am I Blogging About Terminal Cancer?
My Mum is awesome. She's brought up three kids (and I reckon we could have turned out worse!), had an amazing career in palliative medicine, volunteered for the church and sold Fairtrade for years,...
View ArticleWhy Britain Needs Norman Lamb to Be the Next Liberal Democrat Leader
About three months ago, I sat in Bristol University Student's Union for an hour to listen to one of the most impressively progressive men in British politics. Norman Lamb is the future. Do not be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Labour Call For EU Referendum Voting Age To Be Lowered To 16
David Cameron is facing intense pressure from Labour to hand 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in an in/ out EU referendum. Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn claimed it was a "matter of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Less Than Half Of Elite Russell Group Universities Don't Record Rape...
Less than half of Britain's elite universities do not properly record allegations of rape, sexual assaults or sexual harassment, an investigation has revealed. Seven of the 24 Russell Group...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Goldsmith's Student Diversity Officer Bahar Mustafa Investigated By Police...
Goldsmiths university's student diversity officer is being investigated by police after she tweeted the hashtag "kill all white men" from the official student union account. Bahar Mustafa also used the...
View ArticleLess Expletives and More Ideas: How Protests Could Be a Little More Democratic
Of course, the right to protest is vital for any healthy democracy. It provides a check on the power of government, ensures a plurality of political opinion, and allows anyone and everyone to be part...
View ArticleMedical Students Subjected To Abuse During Placements, Research Reveals
Medical students have been subject to abuse and witnessed breaches of patient safety and dignity during placements, according to a large survey. The majority of students also said they had carried out...
View ArticleCoventry University Pips Russell Group Institutions To Make It Into Top 20 In...
Coventry University has made its way into the top 20 of a university league table, becoming the highest former polytechnic institution ever ranked, and beating off stiff competition from Russell Group...
View ArticleFirst Lady Michelle Obama Tells Graduates: Go Out There And Make It Happen
In a commencement address at Oberlin College, in Ohio, US, First Lady Michelle Obama urged graduates to, "go out there and make it happen." The First Lady told the Oberlin Class of 2015, "Look at you!...
View ArticleEverybody Loses When Young People Are Out of Work
We see first-hand the impact that unemployment at a young age can have; from reducing the wages a person will go on to earn to increasing the chances of them becoming unemployed again in later life and...
View ArticleChange the Rules: Time to Get Rid of Sexist School Uniforms
'Inappropriate.' 'Immoral.' 'Disruptive.' All recent words used to describe schoolgirls' outfits. Whether they're from the uniform-wearing UK or the more relaxed 'own clothes' States, young women...
View Article