Are You Giving or Are You Gaining?
"Please donate to me so I can afford the equipment so I can undertake this very questionable challenge in a tropical paradise...for charity" I am sure I am not the only one who has noticed the surge of...
View ArticleStop Blaming Private Tutors
There has been a lot of press coverage recently for independent school Heads speaking out against private tutors. The language is coded in terms of an industry of hangers-on, opportunists, as if...
View ArticleAre We Creating a More 'Entrepreneurial' Generation?
It is clear from the press that the outlook remains bleak for our young people. There are around one million 16 to 24 year-olds not in education, training or employment and the labour market is...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: His Legacy
I am the Master of my Fate. I am the Captain of my Soul - Invictus Few people can be said to have changed the course of history. But Nelson Mandela, first black President of South Africa, did. With his...
View ArticleBro Porn: Heterosexualizing Straight Men's Anti-Homophobia Stances
Every year since 2009, the men of the Warwick University rowing team have posed nude together in a series of photos that can be purchased individually or collectively as a calendar. The sales from this...
View ArticleMayor Rob Ford Upstages Santa Claus At Etobicoke Parade
Shut out of the Toronto Santa Claus parade last month, a jolly Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was welcomed with mixed feelings as he strolled down Lake Shore Boulevard for Etobicoke’s annual parade on...
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Chuka Umunna: Gender Segregation At University Would Be 'Outlawed' By Labour
Gender segregation at university would be "outlawed" by Labour, according to the party's shadow business secretary, despite a universities leader insisting the practice is not completely "alien to our...
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WATCH: Do Attractive Students Get Better Grades?
Do better looking students get better grades? Apparently so...
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Student Dies On Derby University Campus After 'Falling From A Height'
A man, suspected to be a student, has died after being found injured on a university campus, police have said. The man, who has not yet been named, was discovered at the University of Derby's Kedleston...
View ArticleNew York College Student Dies in Hazing Ritual (VIDEO)
Pennsylvania police are investigating the death of a college student from New York City. Authorities say Michael Deng died after a fraternity hazing ritual.
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Measuring the True Impact of Development Initiatives
*Marlen de la Chaux (2013) is currently pursuing a PhD in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge. Sometimes major international governance schemes begin simply: with a glass of beer, and...
View ArticleSwapping Sweatpants for Suits, Russian for Rush Hour and Being Back at Big Blue
I have temporarily swapped slovenly student life for that of a suited city slicker. With my track record in high heels, "city-stumbler" would be a more accurate description. I identify with this term,...
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Mandela Moments: Lessons in Selflessness
*Zenobia Ismail [2013] is a South African student doing a PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Between 2008 and 2011 she was involved in multi-country research on...
View ArticleWriting a Novel? The Big Lie
It's time. I sit at my laptop and I have nothing to do but write. The house is clean, all commitments have been met; I am free to write. Steam rises from a cup of tea to my left; I pick it up, sip and...
View ArticleDon't Forget Where the Power Lies...
I'm happy to see that students are showing the establishment who really possesses the power. It has been good to see the success of the Cops Off Campus demonstration taking place from London to...
View ArticlePage Three: Porn for All the Family
Growing up with a grandad who bought The Sun undoubtedly had a profound effect on my perceptions of what my adult female body should look like, years before I had even begun to hit puberty. Women's...
View ArticleShould I Be Worried About the Future of ICT Employment
I'm worried. In November I spent five days at two of the biggest skills show events in the UK, chatting to students, teachers, tutors, careers advisors and parents about career opportunities in IBM....
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Elina Desaine, ShagAtUni's UK's Horniest Student, To Be Disciplined By Exeter...
An undergraduate crowned the "UK's horniest student" for boasting about having sex in a computer room and keeping a list of victims will be disciplined by her university - and even faces permanent...
View ArticleCommission Calls for Partnership Between Schools and Businesses to Address...
Without doubt the most worrying OECD study this autumn for the UK wasn't the much discussed PISA study, but the study of adult literacy published in October. This study isolated a massive challenge for...
View ArticleMajor Concerns Over New Special Educational Needs (SEN) Draft Code of Practice
This week both IPSEA, a national charity which offers free legal advice to families with children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) have strongly voiced their...
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