Voyage, Quest, Inspired: Sunday in Oxbridge
ONE: Inspiration comes out of tranquility. TWO: Inspiration is omnipresent. Hear us indeed the Sunday echoes of church bells, Remit all agitation. Dream lilts Which doth shed lights on the...
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Dear Instagram: I Love You... But You're Not a Doctor
I've been writing on and off about my struggles with chronic illness for about a year. A lifetime connective tissue disorder (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) and then the slap in the face of two new illnesses...
View ArticleScottish Independence: Students Lose Chance To Vote In Referendum After...
A group of Scottish students have lost the chance to vote on whether their country stays part of the United Kingdom following an embarrassing "cock-up". It is too late for 19 students at West Lothian...
View ArticleWIN Your Back To Uni Package With Post-it Plus £50 Ticketmaster Vouchers
Looking forward to heading back to Uni but dreading all that work? With a host of clever products, the Post-it® Brand from 3M is perfect for study organisation. Why not enter our competition to win...
View ArticleA Fresher's Guide To The University Of Warwick
So your results are through and you're heading off to the University of Warwick (which is actually in Coventry...) in a few weeks. Congratulations! Your Freshers' Fortnight might be starting a week or...
View ArticleSave Student Media: Why It's Never Been More Important for University...
The London Student closed its doors on 8 July. Recognised as the biggest student publication in Europe, the University of London's award-winning paper was designed to meet the needs of 120,000 people...
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Doing Your Apprenticeship Application? Here A Few Handy Dos And Don'ts
It's pretty common knowledge career advice around apprenticeships is in rather short supply. So we spoke to the graduates and current apprentices at Mondelēz International - the global confection and...
View ArticleCultural and Societal Attitudes Around Engineering Need to Change
I never got the point of writing long essays. You don't have to write them if you study Maths and Science subjects at A Levels which I think was one of the reasons I chose to do Maths, Further Maths,...
View ArticleGuidance for the Naive Undergraduate - Part Nine: Fresher's Week V.1
Fresher's Week, what can be said that hasn't already been said? In those seven days, those one hundred and sixty-eight hours, a lot will happen and even if not much happens for you, a lot will happen...
View ArticleState School Pupils Need More Help To Get Into Oxbridge, Teachers And Experts...
Students from state-funded schools who aspire to Oxford and Cambridge need more help with the rigorous admissions process, according to a leading international consultancy. State school students...
View Article8 Signs You're A Warwick University Student
The University of Warwick is certainly very iconic for its picturesque secluded campus, with plenty of beautiful wildlife and artworks, as well as being highly regarded for its academia. However,...
View ArticleGovernment To Develop Sharia Student Loan System For Muslim Students - How It...
The government is to develop a student loan system complaint for Sharia Law in order to boost the Muslim population at England's universities, it has announced. Following a four month-long...
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Crucial Year for England Rugby - Neil Back's Insight on New Premiership...
The first round of domestic rugby's top flight Aviva Premiership is complete, and each fixture was packed with the sort of excitement and intensity only rugby can bring. I spoke to former Lions and...
View ArticleGraduate Alfred Ajani, Who Handed Out CVs At Waterloo Station, Lands Dream Job
A graduate who handed out CVs at Waterloo Station like they were promotional flyers has landed himself a dream job - showing an inventive approach to employment really does work. Nigerian-born Alfred...
View ArticleCornwall Has A Real-Life Mermaid: And It's Teen Emily Keat
A 19-year-old has fulfilled a dream and made Cornish myth a reality after becoming the UK's first professional mermaid. Emily Keat, who studied textiles at college and lives in Wadebridge, tried out...
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Warning to New University Students - False Facebook Groups
New students throughout the UK are being drawn to Facebook groups they believe are run by their universities and students' unions. They are not -these groups are often run by external event promoters...
View ArticleDoes a 'Plan B' Give You The Edge ?
For many amongst us, choices are simple, straightforward and so are life objectives. To you guys I bow out as I'm probably one of the majority who struggle to make sense of why things don't turn out...
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Plymouth University Blows £24k On Staff Trip To Miami
A university has raised eyebrows after blowing a whopping £24,000 on sending six staff members to a conference in Miami earlier this year. The three-day Times Higher Education Young Universities...
View ArticleFeminism Is About Gender Equality, So What About Men's Rights?
The gender split in society is clear and things are different in everyday life if you are a man compared to a woman. In discussions on feminism, there is a lot of focus on women's rights, but what...
View ArticleMy Smoking Shame
One of the lowest points of my student career came in the early hours of the morning of Monday, January 21, 2013. I remember the date because, only a few hours earlier, I'd made a vow to give up...
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