Google Is Creepy
Google's informal motto is, "don't be evil." Broadly speaking they stick to this. Google defends free speech and uses a democratic PageRank system to priorities its search results. Google invests...
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Longer School Days Needed To Boost Poor, White Children's Results, MPs Say
White, working class children need longer school days and better teachers to boost their attainment and catch up with poor children from other ethnic backgrounds, MPs have suggested. In a new report,...
View ArticleA Tribute to Dr Isa Abdur Rahman
One year has passed since Dr Isa Abdur Rahman, a British doctor and Imperial graduate, died in Syria where he was treating injured civilians. At only 26 years old, Dr Isa Abdur Rahman died when the...
View ArticleGuidance for The Naive Undergraduate - Part Five: Nightclub Security.
One of my hipster friends recently said to me that the problem with being a university student is that there is no security. I wasn't quite sure what kind of security she was talking about, because at...
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School for Creative Startups; Take Note Mr Gove
Despite superficially positive figures regarding unemployment coming out in the past few months, let's be clear, there is a massive employment crisis in the United Kingdom. We have unemployment at...
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10 Unforgettable Views to Add to Your Bucket-List
The summer break, especially for university students, is a time to travel and to tick off a few things on your bucket list. Obviously though, as students, our budgets are tight and often in-disposable...
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Obesity in Africa
*Georgina Murphy [2009] did a PhD in Public Health and Primary Healthcare at the University of Cambridge. This work was done as part of a collaboration between the University of Cambridge, Wellcome...
View ArticleDegrees of Separation: Jordan's Contiguous Border With Israel
Palestinians who utilise the border crossings between Israel and Jordan are subject regularly to systematic discrimination. It is surprising, therefore, that Jordan continues to consent to Israel...
View ArticleStudents Matter
Keeping students happy has become a real concern. It is rare to find a university that doesn't wait on tenterhooks for the results of the National Student Survey. It would be all too easy to treat...
View ArticleMichael Gove Has Changed Everything You Once Knew About School Food
The ever popular Michael Gove unveiled a brutal a crackdown on fatty and sweet foods on Tuesday as part of new standards on school meals. Margaret Thatcher may have been notorious as the "milk...
View ArticleHeadteacher Defends Draconian School Uniform Policy After 250 Girls Sent Home...
The headteacher of a secondary school where more than 250 girls were allegedly taken out of lessons because their skirts were too short has claimed several were under peer pressure to wear...
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Student Stabbed To Death On Essex Footpath 'Targeted For Muslim Dress'
A Saudi Arabian student stabbed to death in brutal attack on an Essex footpath may have been targeted for her Islamic dress. Detectives are investigating the possibility Nahid Almanea was targeted...
View ArticleTeach Five-Year-Olds To Start Their Own Business, Says PM's Adviser Lord Young
Children as young as five have been urged to start up their own businesses as part of a raft of proposals from David Cameron's enterprise adviser Lord Young to hardwire "an enterprising attitude" into...
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Is Teaching Mindfulness in School a Good Idea?
Anyone look back at your tween and teen years and reminisce about how incredibly awkward and uncomfortable you felt in your own skin? Anyone, in conjunction, also realize that those quirks you felt so...
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WIN A Pair Of Sheepskin Lined Thorn & Field Wellies, Perfect For Festivals
With the festival season underway we all know that the great British weather can be somewhat unpredictable – that’s why Thorn & Field wellington boots are the ideal festival footwear come rain or...
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Female Muslim Students Living In Fear After Nahid Almanea Stabbed To Death In...
Female Muslim students who wear hijabs and other traditional dress are living in fear after Essex University student Nahid Almanea was stabbed to death on Tuesday morning. Concerns have been raised the...
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Young Entrepreneur Of The Week: Tom Macmichael, Founder Of Taxi Booking App...
Meet Tom Macmichael, second year Computer Science student at the University of Edinburgh and budding entrepreneur, who’s revolutionising the taxi booking system. Four years ago, at the age of just...
View ArticleWhen School Band Recitals Go Wrong (VIDEO)
Bless these kids from Grosse Pointe Music Academy. There they were, performing a fine cover version of Weezer's ‘Undone – The Sweater Song’, and then... (Via Daily Picks And Flicks)
View Article'Go Out There And Have A F***ing Good Life': Watch Rik Mayall's Brilliantly...
He doesn't really need an introduction, in fact, he doesn't need one at all, but for the sake of pleasantries, we'll give him one anyway. The recently deceased Rik Mayall, made famous by The Young Ones...
View ArticleHow to Stay Calm During Exams
After you have revised as much as you can, or even if you haven't, how can you stay calm before and during 'the big exam'? What are you afraid of? The key to staying calm in an exam is to keep your...
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