Clik here to view.
Young Entrepreneur Of The Week: Andy Stephenson Of Weekend Box
25-year old Andy Stephenson's business aims to provide young children with a "weekend box" of activities to keep them occupied, something some parents may wish they had in order to get some peace and...
View ArticleLeave Minimum Wage Be and Cut Taxes to Aid the Cost of Living
I'm not sure the widespread support for an increase in minimum wage would continue if some of the potential consequences became reality. Even some conservatives have now jumped on the populist...
View ArticleWhy Universities Are Wrong to Ban The Sun
The other day I read a blog piece in the Guardian by a Leeds University student who was arguing against the institution's decision to remove the Sun from sale at the uni campus. I couldn't agree with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teachers Voted For Further Strikes In June At NUT Conference
Schools are to face widespread disruption after teachers voted to stage further strikes, starting with a national walkout in the summer, in a bitter row over pay, pensions and conditions. The National...
View Article10 Ways To Build And Boost Your CV
Easter is often seen as the last major opportunity for some final intensive exam revision but it’s also a great time to work on some clever tactics that will help beef up your CV. It will give you a...
View Article5 Ways Volunteering Can Help You Get A Job
If you’ve ever thought about volunteering, you probably thought of it as something you ‘should do’ – for your community, society or people around you who would benefit from help that you're in a...
View ArticleHow To Look Good Dead
I was told once that the best way to know a city is to get lost in it. I can't say if this is a universal truth but with my truly terrible sense of direction I've had plenty of chances to put it to the...
View ArticleInspired Bigotry: Meet the Salafists Behind the Law Society
In the last weeks many women's rights and secularist campaigners up and down the country have been rubbing their eyes incredulously in a state of déjà-vu. After having fought off the threat of the...
View ArticleCan You Really Hate Your Home Town That Much? Why Everyone Should Embrace...
As thousands of students make their second trip back home of the academic year, families across the country will be welcoming sons and daughters with welcoming arms. Cupboards will have been stocked...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn't Do an MA Straight After Graduating
Peer pressure is a horrible, constricting thing. It makes you do things you wouldn't necessarily have done, had you been given more freedom to sit and work out what you really want. While I was doing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why the Internet Is Like 'Mean Girls'
Two Facebook groups have been rocking the internet-boat over the past couple of weeks with their contributions to spring 2014's biggest trend - Stranger Shaming. On the first, Women who eat on tubes,...
View ArticleIdeas of What Is or Isn't 'Earned' Will Define This Era of Politics
As the old saying goes, 'A fair day's work for a fair day's pay', and this was the idea which underpinned how we all thought about wages, work and social progression. You get what you deserve, what you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10 Obscure Gap Year Destinations
It's tempting to be lazy on your gap year and do what everyone else does; travel to Thailand and go to a full moon party, then "explore" Vietnam and Cambodia. Or backpack in Australia and learn to...
View ArticleHow To Choose Your University If You're A Student Entrepreneur
For many young and budding entrepreneurs, university can offer an invaluable support service - financially, emotionally and professionally. That's why, if your business is your passion, it is so...
View Article10 Years Since Mean Girls Was Released: Here's What We Learnt About School
It's 10 years this week since Mean Girls was released. That's right. 10 whole YEARS since Glen Coco got four candy canes, Lindsay Lohan smelt like a baby prostitute, Kevin Gnapoor unleashed his badass...
View ArticleWhat To Say When People Tell You Your Degree Is Worthless
Degrees have been getting a fair bit of bad press recently - what with graduate starting salaries dropping by 11%, a list of degrees with no job prospects being bandied around and a recent surge of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Guide To Summer Internships - And How To Get One
Yes, it's only just gone Easter and your plans probably extend to joining the gym after eating your own bodyweight in chocolate last weekend, but summer will be here before you know it. We're not going...
View ArticleA-Level Students Share Their Tips On How Write Your Personal Statement
It's an "unfortunate necessity" as one student puts it, and we couldn't sum it up better ourselves. The phrase "personal statement" is enough to fill you with dread and horror at trying to explain...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Revenge Is Sweet: 9 Ways To Get Back At Annoying Students Clogging Up The...
Going to the library is hard. You have to struggle out of your warm, comfortable bed at 11:30am and into a building full of haggard old librarians with a worrying passion for the library cataloging...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WIN A Pair Of House Of Marley Liberate On-Ear Headphones, RRP £99.99
Made using REWIND material - House of Marley's exclusive blend of reclaimed hemp and organic cotton mixed with fibres of recycled plastic bottles - these headphones are perfect for listening to your...
View Article