Beware of Instagram: A Picture Doesn't Speak a Thousand Words
We are a social-network generation. When I was thirteen we had Bebo and MSN, then it all moved to Facebook. Now we have collectively entered the nascent Instagram era. While Instagram may seem like a...
View ArticleWill a Small Royal Reshuffle Kick Off Our Biggest Social Change?
2013 was the year Pope Benedict XVI took the unusual decision of resigning from his post, much to the surprise of those who had followed his works across the world. This year, our own defender of the...
View ArticleTwitter Account @RememberingMSN Will Make You Feel Nostalgic For The Early...
If the following means anything to you: *Parents walk into room* Space, Enter Space, Enter Space, Enter Space, Enter Space, Enter— MSN Memories (@RememberingMSN) January 10, 2014 Then you'll love the...
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Exasperated Students Teach Their Classmates After Warwick University...
A group of students have taken matters into their own hands and are teaching their own classes after their university lecturers went on strike. A large number of students at the University of Warwick...
View Article22 Gratuitous Funny Pictures Of Michael Gove
Because... well, do we need a 'because'? They are gratuitous, after all. If the Education Secretary - and his policies - are bringing you down, just click your way through our slideshow of some of his...
View ArticleLet's Give Hope to a Generation
Recent headlines regarding young people, and the future they believe they face, are worrying. Notably, a 2014 report by the Prince's Trust has shown that due to a perceived lack of overall career and...
View ArticleTube Strikes This Week Are Important
The tube strikes this week and next will cause chaos to many commuters attempting to get across London from Tuesday evening until Friday morning. According to Transport for London (TfL) most lines will...
View ArticleBeware the Belgians? A Punter's Pick For Brazil 2014
Tintin, waffles, and over-priced chocolate. If you were to traverse the high streets and market squares of Britain, asking the wandering punters to sum up Belgium in three words, the odds are that...
View ArticleWatch Principal Sing Brilliant Bohemian Rapsody 'School Is Closed' Message
The principal at Stephens Elementary School in Kentucky, US, made the impossible possible: he topped the fact school was closed - with his announcement school was closing. Sounds confusing right? All...
View ArticlePolitics Is Far Too Important to Be Left to Politicians Alone
Banging on about democracy is one thing and actually implementing it fairly is another. Whether it's "why young people don't vote" or the call for "the ban on the niqaab" being discussed, those...
View ArticleStudent Does Neknominate In Front Of Packed Lecture Theatre
A student has taken the controversial Neknominate craze to the next level - by completing his challenge in the middle of a packed lecture theatre. The video, posted by student paper The Tab, shows...
View ArticleIs the 'Skills Shortage' Actually a Language Barrier?
Businesses are struggling to fill the skills gap but could lack of English language training be the problem? According to the government's skills watchdog, a sharp rise in skills shortages in the UK...
View ArticleLetter: Why We Are Fighting the Student Debt Sell Off
This week we are stepping up our campaign to stop the government's plan to privatise our student loans through a national week of protests, rallies and creative direct action which will sweep across...
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Super Brainy Zombies - The Undead Have Taken Over YouTube
Everybody loves a good zombie movie. Ever since the 1930s, we've had an obsession with the undead on our screens, and so it only makes sense that the UK YouTube scene should have its very own zombie...
View ArticleYou Know You're a Journalism Student When...
Okay so let's face it, being a journalism & media student isn't just a straight forward process. Particularly nowadays where the industry is more competitive than ever. The media plays a vital role...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Liberation?
The eruption of 'mommy porn' typified in E.L James' 50 Shades series has been argued by some as a marker for female sexual empowerment. I will agree that it has enlightened a change in coffee table...
View ArticleFinding the Right Student House
Time at university flies by for most students. Days blend in with the next as we stay up late reading for tomorrows class, getting that essay written, preparing for that exam next week or having a good...
View ArticleProtests on Campuses Just One Sign of the Malaise Gripping Universities
As I write this, I am looking at two very different documents. The first is an e-mail I received on Thursday morning from the Vice Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, David Eastwood. The second...
View ArticleRealistic Statue Of Almost-Naked Man Freaks Out Women's College
Believe it or not, this is a statue. At a college. A women's college...
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