How Completing a Dryathlon Helped Me Grow Up
On 1 January this year I woke up in the same way as half of the UK's adult population, nursing my half-hungover, half-still-drunk self in the foetal position. This wasn't a one-off for me, it was an...
View Article27 Best Vines Of The Week In 1 Video: Jan. 25 - Jan. 31, 2014 (VIDEO)
Vine, Twitter’s micro-video social network, is perhaps the best form of entertainment by and for Generation Distraction. With a limit of six seconds per video, Vine provides a steady supply of...
View ArticleDartmouth College Skier Torin Tucker Dies During Cross-Country Race In Vermont
By Laura Zuckerman Feb 2 (Reuters) - A member of the ski team at a prestigious U.S. college collapsed and died over the weekend from unknown causes while competing in a cross-country ski race in...
View ArticleTop 10 Extreme Gap Year Travelling Tales
Iguanas for breakfast, disgusted monks and goats in taxis. It could only happen on a gap year or year abroad. To celebrate the launch of Refreshers Wall, The Student Year Planner from Student Beans,...
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Michael Gove's Shortlist For New Head Of Ofsted Revealed (PICTURE)
So Michael Gove has sacked Ofsted chief Sally Morgan. But who will replace her? HuffPost UK Comedy has got its hands on the Education Secretary's list... (List obtained by David Schneider and David...
View ArticleArmed Student Kills Two in Moscow School Shooting
An armed teenager burst into his Moscow school on Monday and killed a teacher and a policeman before being taken into custody, according to Russian officials.
View ArticlePupils Launch Petition To Bring Back Physics Teacher Richard West Sacked For...
Students are calling for a physics teacher to be reinstated after he was sacked for accidentally shooting a student during a classroom experiment. Richard West was dismissed from St Peter's Collegiate...
View ArticleWhy Immigration Is a Good Thing for the UK
Immigration has been a hotly contested issue in the last several years - with its often negative portrayal in our society, it is often not clear why immigration can be a force for good. You only need...
View ArticleThe Importance of Imagination
What kind of place would the world be without imagination? It's an extraordinary phenomenon when you stop to think about it. Every great invention or discovery started with a little imagination, with...
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Kent University Student Union Uses Joseph Stalin To Promote Campus Politics...
A students' union is facing a backlash after using an image of former dictator of the USSR Joseph Stalin to promote their upcoming elections. The controversial poster, used by the University of Kent's...
View ArticleRisky or Brave? Arsene Wenger Is Walking a Fine Line With Lack of Activity
Ask any ex-Arsenal player: Arsene Wenger's greatest attribute is the faith he places in his players. Those same ex-Arsenal players will tell you that this same faith can sometimes be the great man's...
View ArticleTopless Women Film Messy NSFW Video In Columbia Library In The Name Of Art
A group of topless women staged a clandestine video shoot in Columbia University's Butler Library back in November, but the yolks on you -- their intention was not to titillate but to defy you to watch...
View ArticleMourn Phillip Seymour Hoffman: Rethink Drugs
On Sunday, we were all recipient to the terrible news that yet another young, talented actor has died. I knew Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the fantastic bad guy from Mission Impossible, others knew him...
View ArticleMalta Isn't Devaluing Its Citizenship (Any More Than Anyone Else...)
As my nigh-unpronounceable name might suggest, I'm (half-) Maltese. The tiny island has been a second home to me over the years, and so it was with mixed feelings that I greeted the news last week that...
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Working With the National Theatre: An Interview With Zack Momoh
Photo by Daniel Sutka Emerging from the stage door of the National Theatre in a pair of jeans and simple t-shirt, Zack Momoh looks a world away from his role as the soldier/cyclist in the performance...
View ArticleDoes 'Neknominate' Represent The Very Worst Trends In Student Drinking Culture?
Over the course of the last couple of weeks, most students in the UK will have become aware of a phenomenon known as 'Neknominate', or 'Neck and Nominate'. Young people post a video of themselves...
View ArticleSix Ways to Turn the Country Around
A credible government needs a credible opposition. Only by having someone who can say "No. You are wrong, this is how we can do that better" can a government claim some legitimacy. It means that...
View ArticleWhy I'm Supporting National Voter Registration Day
Whether it's from Russell Brand or someone else there's been a lot of discussion lately not only about whether young people will vote but whether we even should. In a system which seems to constantly...
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Science Needs Ethics
*Sean Collins [2012] is doing a PhD in Materials Science at the University of Cambridge where he is a Gates Cambridge Scholar. His research focuses on studying the optical properties of metal...
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