Efua Dorkenoo: The Woman Who Never Stopped
I remember the first time I heard about the legendary Efua Dorkenoo. It was 2007 and I was 9 years old, sitting in my back garden in Lagos, Nigeria, clutching my copy of her book "Cutting the Rose:...
View ArticleSt Andrews Students Frolic In Foam At Annual Raisin Monday
As they frolic in the foam, the thought of insurmountable mountains of debt and a bleak employment landscape couldn't be further from their minds. Leaping like spring lambs in the creamy bubbles, St...
View ArticleEbola Fears: Harvard Students Must Ask University's Permission To Travel To...
Students at Harvard University have to ask permission to travel to countries stricken by ebola as fears it will spread across the globe grow. Along with teachers and any other university affiliates,...
View ArticleReducing Tuition Fees to £6,000 Won't Win Labour the Student Vote
In the 2010 general election, many students voted for the Liberal Democrats after being falsely promised that they would not raise tuition fees. However, after just months of being in coalition with...
View ArticleWhy Guatemala Should Be On Your Holiday Radar
Mexico - tick. Belize- tick. Next stop Guatemala. I've been travelling for almost two months and have spent the last week exploring the beautiful country of Guatemala in Central America. I didn't know...
View ArticleSupply and Demand: Addressing Skills Shortages in the Current Climate
Increasingly direct links between our education system and industry operators are helping business leaders get the support they need to sustain a robust and competitive economy, at what is a crucial...
View ArticleAmericanizing My British Accent: An Identity Crisis
"You actually say 'maths' instead of 'math'?" Colour. *Color. "So... I hope you don't mind if I ask you a personal question. Did you live in the U.K. earlier? No? Australia? No? Then where does the...
View ArticleWhen Students Get Fancy Dress Costumes Really Very Wrong
Fancy dress is always a bit of a minefield, and no more so than during the Halloween festive period. If you're umming and aahing over whether you should be "outrageous" or "controversial", then we...
View ArticleThis Is What Oregon Students Do If They're Bored At A Football Game - And You...
Watching sport can be one of the most exhilarating, electrifying, fingernail-biting things ever. But.. *whispers* it does get kinda boring sometimes. Thanks to these Oregon students, if ever you're...
View ArticleYoung Entrepreneur Of The Week: Giles Mitchell
Giles Mitchell, 23, was inspired to start a business by his grumbly tummy, after one too many trips to the vending machine to get a standard chocolate bar. Keen to find a way to make snacking much more...
View ArticlePussy Riot To Speak At Cambridge Union
Members of the Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot are to speak at the Cambridge Union in November, which has previously played host to figures such as Julian Assange and Ronald Reagan. The union...
View ArticleFive Other 'Norman Tebbit Ideas' For Dealing With Neets
Ageing Thatcherite Norman Tebbit, doyen of the Tory right and, more recently, harbinger of a “Lesbian queen”, has given a crackpot staid suggestion of how to deal with the problem of “Neets” – those...
View ArticleEnd Unpaid Internships by 2020? No, End Them Now
Yes! Someone with considerable political clout has said publicly that unpaid internships should be abolished! But, hang on... what's this? Alan Milburn's new report for the Social Mobility Commission...
View ArticleStudent Jailed For Slapping Sleeping Woman In The Face With His Penis
A student has been jailed for slapping a sleeping woman in the face with his penis while his friend filmed the indecent act on his phone. John Luke Dale, a 21-year-old criminology undergraduate who...
View ArticleCosta Rica: A Spectrum of Colours
Costa Rica has, in recent decades, emerged with one of the best tourism infrastructures in the world and a focus on ecological tourism that is central to the award-winning sustainable tourism that is...
View ArticleDon't Call Me 'Millenial'
Today's language won't speak to the next generation, say Harriet Kingaby and Jen Katan. So here we are, the millennial generation. Those that had our first snog, beer, or fag as the world quaked in the...
View ArticleTo the Northern Lights and Beyond
Seeing the northern lights is high up on many bucket lists, and as the only natural light display in the world it's not hard to see why. Every year thousands of people travel to Iceland, Sweden,...
View ArticleBackpacking Australia? Here Are 6 Places You May Not Have Thought To Go...
Australia is huge and there aren't many people to fill it, so the idea of 'off-the-beaten-track' can conjure up a plethora of destinations. There truly is so much to explore down under and they don't...
View ArticleNevada School Lets Students Pose With Guns In Yearbook Photos
A school in Nevada is allowing its students to pose with guns and hunting weapons in their yearbooks - as long as its in good taste. The Broken Bow School board voted unanimously to allow senior...
View ArticleWin £200 Worth Of Urban Outfitters Vouchers
We’ve teamed up with the discount website www.VoucherCodesPro.co.uk (Money Saving Heroes on Facebook) to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a £200 Urban Outfitters gift voucher. With the...
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