Interview With the Founder of Ratemash
It's the website that's taken thousands of Facebook photos without user consent and asked the public to rate their 'hotness.' After a week of thousands of shocked students discovering their profiles...
View ArticleThe Energy Battleground: Labour Strides Ahead
The cost of living crisis has been Ed Miliband's most profitable discourse over the last few months. Within this rhetoric the energy debate, or the energy 'crisis' (as Labour would have us think) has...
View ArticleHow to Make a Good Video Interview
We are about to start using video interviews as an integral part of our screening process at the New Entrepreneurs Foundation. We have done this in order to increase significantly the number of people...
View ArticleThe Existential Crisis of Extras
It was a cold November evening when I found myself seated expectantly for Core Theatre's delightful production of Tom Stoppard's 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'. Staged in the Paragon area of...
View ArticleMiley Cyrus and the Several Disabled People
What do you do when your life is so empty that you crave the attention of the world? Well Miley Cyrus would tell you to 'twerk it girl. Twerk it hard.' Indeed, Cyrus has achieved her aim of shedding...
View ArticleTake It From a Welsh Girl: Why Scotland Shouldn't Pursue Independence
Scotland, what are they doing to you? The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon tried hard to persuade on the Today Programme that an independent Scotland with a shared currency is a perfectly workable idea. She...
View ArticleMaking Your Personal Statement Distinctive
The Outreach team and I are busy travelling all across London to bring free guidance and advice about higher education to school and college students and community forums to help them make informed...
View ArticleStop Unpaid Internships, and Graduate - Be More Proactive
It's a familiar situation to many of us. You've just graduated from University and it's time to find a job. However, these days it's not so simple as firing off a CV or two to a recruitment consultant....
View ArticleGoing Low-Brow at the University of Kent
Everyone knows that children's literature can't possibly be high quality, right? It doesn't count as proper literary fiction, does it? It can't make people consider big issues or challenge ideas of...
View ArticleComing Out of Our Closets
Let's sit back and imagine that you're in the shoes of a specialist, preparing yourself to meet a new patient in your office. You don't know what to expect; you don't know what this person is like and...
View ArticleQuotas Can't Guarantee Gender Equality
The European Parliament has recently supported a 40% quota for women in the boardroom by 2020. As Nigel Farage despairs over further European Union encroachments on his sovereign right to hate women,...
View ArticleAn Open Love Letter to Music
Memories are often evoked through some point of cultural significance or musical pinpoint. Just this weekend, I was asking my Mother about her experiences of being a recently divorced female in the...
View ArticleTom Daley, Bisexuality and Sports' Sexuality Problem
Tom Daley is gay! The ridiculously tanned, ridiculously toned, young gay icon has revealed he has had a boyfriend for months. All the guys across the world who may have watched the Olympic diving less...
View ArticleThe Bigotry of Our Medieval Society
Today I've decided to write about a topic that is a major issue in society nowadays - the LGBT community. I've never discussed homosexuality in a blog post before, simply because I never felt it was...
View ArticleResponses to Lily Allen's 'Hard Out Here' Have Largely Missed the Point
As 'Hard Out Here' slides out of the Top 10, and we all begin to forget about just how baggy Lily Allen's pussy really is, online reactions to the single have far from disappeared. The music video for...
View ArticleAre Private Schools Undermining State Education in the UK?
Britain is a country with a history of private education. Like many countries, our first schools were fee-paying; initially, education was a luxury that only the rich could afford. It was only in 1870...
View ArticlePISA Results Show UK Students Lagging Behind Rest Of The World
UK teenagers are lagging far behind their peers across the world as the country fails to improve its performance in reading, maths and science, a major international report reveals. Young adults in...
View ArticleWales Has Worst Education In The UK, PISA Tables Show
Wales is falling behind the rest of the UK in reading, maths and science, an international study shows. The nation's teenagers scored lower results on average in each of the three subjects than their...
View ArticleWho Needs Lecturers Anyway? Student Takes Over University Class (VIDEO)
When a lecturer doesn't show up, first year student at the University of Liverpool, Joel Pearce, decides to give the lecture instead... A University of Liverpool spokesperson said: “There was a...
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Oxford University's Women's Rugby Team Strip Naked For Charity (PICTURES)
Oxford University's women's team are likely to have gripped the attention of rugby-phobics by releasing their naked charity calendar for 2014. The classy black-and-white shots were taken around the...
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