How A Party Inspired These Two Young Entrepreneurs To Clean Up In Business
University friends Tom Brooks and Peter Dowds decided last year to pack in their high-flying City careers to go into business together after throwing a Christmas party and struggling to find a decent...
View ArticleA-Level Results Day And Clearing 2014: Live Updates, Results And Advice
It's crunch time: A-level results day 2014. Firstly, a huge congratulations from us at HuffPost for getting this far. We know it's a tough slog, but trust us, it's worth it! If you've got the grades...
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'I've Always Hidden Jewish Activities From My CV': The Trolling And Abuse...
Young British Jews are facing discrimination, trolling on Twitter and verbal abuse, even going so far as to hide their religion from their CVs, despite having resided in England all their lives....
View ArticleOn Robin Williams and Suicide
Yesterday, one of the most beloved men to grace our screens died. The world is reeling in shock that has been likened to when Michael Jackson died: we simply can't believe it. And, like me, thousands...
View ArticleSoft Skills Are Making the Grade With Employers
The mass reporting and scrutinising of GCSE and A-level results can send young people into a panic. Getting good grades can of course open the door to a promising future, but more employers are...
View ArticleIs the NHS Unfairly Excluding Men?
If you are a woman who finished high school before 2008, it is unlikely you were able to benefit from the introduction of a free vaccination against the human papilloma virus, otherwise known as HPV....
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Clearing 2014: Advice From The Survivors
After months of suspense, results day is finally in sight. As a wave of dread washes over the nation’s 17 year olds, there is one thing on everyone’s mind: the infamous C-word. With clearing remaining...
View ArticleMedia Coverage Of Robin Williams' Suicide Slammed By Young Depression...
Despite detailed guidelines provided by the Samaritans on how to treat Robin Williams' suicide, much of the media coverage of the actor's death has been criticised by young people suffering from...
View ArticleA Level Results In Nine Refreshingly Alternative Pictures
The A Level results coverage in the media feels eerily familiar today. Photographers around the country have been visiting schools and snapping girls leaping into the air with such determination you'd...
View ArticleA-Level Results Day 2014: Jumping Boys Holding Exam Results Really DO Exist
Nope, it's not a hoax or some clever photoshop trick. We really have tracked down the rare specimens that are jumping-boys-holding-A-level-results. Since we've been covering this whole A-level malarky...
View ArticleMan Tweets Obviously Fake A-Level Results, Universities Get Excited And Offer...
Well, that was embarrassing. A writer for the Daily Mash (seriously, why was this fact alone not a give-away?) tweeted a so-obviously-fake-it-could-never-be-real-ever set of A-level results, and ended...
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Dina Asher-Smith Reaches 200m Final On Morning Of A-Level Results
Dina Asher-Smith will be vying for a place in the 200 metres European Championships final later today after easing through heats on the morning she received her A-level results. Asher-Smith, competing...
View ArticleA-Level Results Day 2014: Student Aisha Abdulsalam On Track To Become First...
Among the thousands receiving A-level results on Thursday was ARK Putney Academy student Aisha Abdulsalam, who is set to be the world’s first Kurdish female Pilot. After achieving A-levels in Maths and...
View ArticleAvoid the Trap of Unpaid Internships - 5 Alternative Ways to Add to Your CV
It can seem that the only thing awaiting you as a job-seeking, fresh-from-uni graduate is a sea of unpaid or 'expenses only' internships where you're expected to feel grateful about getting £5 every...
View ArticleAugust 15 - A Day of Compassion
Have you heard of the Day of Compassion? No? With all the terrible events taking place in the world right now, it's not surprising. Every time I switch on the news, or read a paper, I see war, conflict...
View ArticleLessons From Robin Williams
As someone who is open about my mental health and the struggles that come with it both in person and in my online writing, when Robin Williams died I knew I wanted to write something. The trouble was,...
View ArticleIB: A Festive Feast?!
'Hi! I'm also in the acronym festival known as the IB, haha.' A new Facebook message popped up. 'So, what is the IB like?' So did another. A walking-on-the-tightrope experience? A merciless predator of...
View ArticleA-Level Results: University, Gap Year, Work or Entrepreneurialism?
Today is likely to be an emotional and exciting day for many young people about to embark on the next stage of their life journey. Some will be going to University, others taking a gap year, others...
View ArticleA-Level Results Day 2014: More Disadvantaged Students Getting Into...
More students from disadvantaged backgrounds have won places at university than ever before, UCAS statistics have revealed. More than 20,000 students have already been placed on degree courses, an 8%...
View ArticleJosie Cunningham Gives A-Level Results Students Career Advice: Get Your T*ts...
"Girls don't worry if ur results are poor - you can always have a career getting your t*ts out or escorting," said no careers advisor, ever. But luckily, good old Josie Cunningham is around to dish out...
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