McBusted: Why the Supergroup's Comeback All Feels a Little Bit Naughty
"We're not going to carry on because Busted needs to be remembered the way Busted was."14th January 2005 With those words my 10 year old self was devastated. My favourite band ever. Who I had seen live...
View ArticleThe Debate on Social Mobility Needs a New Focus
The debate on social mobility and higher education in the UK has been preoccupied with opportunities for the few, not the many. In a new study we have found that this is largely because of an outdated...
View ArticleWhy Is the University of London Welcoming a Hate Speaker?
Meet Azzam Tamimi, the managing director of Al Hiwar Television. A self-styled academic, Tamimi formerly directed the Islamic Institute for Political Thought - a notorious group whose advisory board...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Graduations Around The World
No matter what your degree, or where you got it from, graduation is always going to be a time to celebrate your achievements and give yourself a well deserved pat on the back. And wherever you are, and...
View ArticleYoung Entrepreneur Andrew Dewar Sold His First Business At 15, What's Next?
Some have business ideas young, but Andrew Dewar had already built up and sold his business by the age of 15 - a social network he set up two years ago called Ooblur. The young entrepreneur, now 16...
View ArticleKids Are Probably Getting Mental Illness From The Internet
Too much time spent online could be causing mental illnesses and social problems for children, it has been reported. Loneliness, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and heightened aggression are some...
View ArticleMemorial or Ideological Advertisement? Lee Rigby and What We Should Actually...
We're just over a week away from the first anniversary of the death of Lee Rigby. The soldier, wearing a Help for Heroes hoodie, was murdered in broad daylight in Woolwich, south-east London, at just...
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Syntax, Semantics, and Naked Emperors: Lessons Students Can Learn From an...
Research students at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a computer programme which automatically writes academic papers. The freely available programme, called SCIgen, has...
View ArticleHow Come Everyone Has 'Feminine Wiles' Apart From Me?
I have never felt more like I was hanging out as 'one of the girls', with Malory Towers style camaraderie, than when I attended a one-off Burlesque class at my university. You'd think that trying to be...
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Chilean Activist And Artist, Francisco Tapia, 'Sets Fire To $500m Worth Of...
A heap of ashes is allegedly all that remains of $500 million in “pagarés” — or debt papers — stolen and burned by a Chilean activist. A video by Francisco Tapia, aka “Papas Fritas,” went viral this...
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Why I'm Voting NO to NUS
How do you think the NUS works? I ask because I'm still none the wiser. As far as I'm aware, we send delegates from OUSU to the NUS who aren't actually obliged to vote in any way unless OUSU...
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Why Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Should Be Taught In...
Michael Gove is set to replace Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird with books by English writers on the GCSE syllabus - a move that has resulted in widespread fury. The backlash is understandable...
View ArticleCould The Disability Student Allowance Cuts Actually Be A GOOD Idea?
The government's announcement it would be slashing funding to support disabled students was not received well by those the scheme endeavoured to help. Students say the decision may even make higher...
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Young Entrepreneur Of The Week: Jules Coleman Of Cleaner Booking Site Hassle
Cleaning is a hassle isn't it? It's not easy, let alone affordable, to hire someone to do the job for you, but for those who can spare the expense, a group of young entrepreneurs have formed a...
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Guildford School Of Acting Teacher Ross Campbell 'Spanked Male Students And...
The professor at a prestigious drama school which counts Bill Nighy among its alumni "spanked male students and asked one to call him daddy," during private tuitions a court has heard. Ross Campbell,...
View ArticleUniversities Are Trying To Ban Initiations, Pub Crawls and Drinking Games. Is...
Universities cracking down on student binge drinking by enforcing new rules to try and ban pub crawls, drinking games and alcohol-related "initiation" ceremonies. Universities including Royal Holloway,...
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Is a Parallel Student Housing Bubble Fuelling the London Property Boom?
In recent months, the media has been filled with stories expressing concern about the exponential rise in property prices in the capital. The majority of property experts are now convinced that London...
View ArticleMaya Angelou's Works Dropped From GCSE English In Favour Of Comedian Meera Syal
Meera Syal and George Orwell will be part of the newly announced English literature GCSE reading list, alongside Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, after it was announced British texts would be the main...
View ArticleKid Gives Short But Inspiring Pre-School Graduation Speech On What He'd Like...
Well, you've got to aim big, right? A tip of the mortar board to you, Jathan Muhar. (Via Twenty Two Words)
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21-Year-Old Student Rosie Corrighan Becomes Youngest Woman EVER To Be Elected...
A 21-year-old female student has become the youngest woman ever to be elected as Mayor after first entering politics to campaign about tuna paninis. Labour party member Rosie Corrigan was elected Mayor...
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