Redefining the Engineering Brand
The career I have chosen has a branding issue. Increasingly, I've found people can't identify with what I do, despite the products of my profession's work being all around them. I am frequently...
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Durham's Student Paper, Palatinate, Gives A Lesson In How To Make A Front Page
Durham University's newspaper truly has set the bar for student subs, and even put national media to shame, with its latest front page splash. Palatinate led its latest issue, published on Thursday,...
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Student Ali Bunney Froze To Death After Walking Four Miles Along Dual...
A Cardiff University student froze to death after he walked four miles along a dual carriageway without a coat following a alcohol-fuelled night out, a coroner has ruled. Jason Bunney, who was known to...
View ArticleObstructed But Undeterred: Far-Right French Leader Speaks Out At Oxford Union
Marine Le Pen may have been temporarily impeded by security fears and more than 200 demonstrators, but the Front National leader was last night finally able to give an impassioned address to students...
View ArticleOne In Three Key Candidates Standing In General Election Is Privately Schooled
Nearly a third of candidates standing for parliament at the next general election has been privately schooled - compared to 7% of the UK population. A study by the Sutton Trust found 31% of new...
View ArticleI'll Vote for the First Time in 2020 - This Is What I Want for Women
Where do you want to be in five years' time? It's a question young people are often asked by teachers as they plan their futures. As a young woman, I think the answer to this question is extremely...
View ArticleCity University Security Guard Appears To Threaten Students 'Let's Meet...
A security guard at one of Britain's top universities for journalism has been caught on film seemingly threatening to kill a reporter from a student newspaper after a string of reports about the...
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Doreen Lawrence Tells Young People To Believe In Themselves And Bite Back At...
The Labour peer Baroness Doreen Lawrence has implored for young people to take radical action and called on them to turn out in force at the ballot box at the general election on May 7. Speaking in...
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Sunderland College Rejects Scottish Student For Not Being A UK Resident
A Scottish student has been left in shock after being rejected from an English college - because they said Scotland wasn't part of the UK. The 26-year-old from Glasgow applied for a distance learning...
View ArticleKids Today: How the Times Have Changed
I am aware that I sound like my grandmother - talking about how things were better back in my day. But I do believe that today's generation of kids are missing out on some important parts of life that...
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Get Rich or Die Trying
The seduction of becoming rich has the power to grip the imagination and inspire endless daydreams of 'making it big'. Moreso for those from less privileged backgrounds, the prospect of escaping the...
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Our Difficulty With Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ambiguous Endings
Living in a remote Scottish town like St Andrews means that sometimes it takes several weeks for films to make their way up here. I shouldn't complain really since the fact that there even is a cinema...
View ArticleThe Blink-182 Drama
So I'd imagine that most people have heard about the Blink-182 drama that hit the news this past week. As a self-professed music addict, I thought I'd chip in my two cents on the story. I'm not going...
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Why We Protested Against G4S
Last Tuesday I joined a dozen activists and blocked Victoria Street in London in protest at security company G4S's role in the death of Jimmy Mubenga, its participation in the racist immigrant...
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Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill: Britain Must Not Give Terrorists This...
Britain, Remember after 9/11, when we passed the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001? Section 23 allowed us to detain any foreigner, without trial, if we suspected them of terrorism and they...
View Article"You Are Hot, But I Don't Date Monkeys"
Coming back from my year abroad I was excited to return to University; I was eager to reunite with old faces and get back to my former routine. Upon my return, the question I was repeatedly asked was...
View ArticleThe Perils of Part-Time Studentdom: Ten Things You Need to Know
Though the number of students choosing part-time study has taken a nosedive since the fees hike of 2012, today's part-timers still account for almost one third of the UK university intake. With the...
View ArticleStudents Have Had Enough With Half Measures
Five years ago, a simple promise of tuition fees was enough to catapult the Liberal Democrats from relative outsiders to key players in government. Now, Labour's potential promise of cutting tuition...
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Here at Huffington Post UK Young Voices we're always looking for ways to bring you the very latest news, quickly and in the most convenient way possible. So we've launched a new WhatsApp alert service....
View ArticleHuffPost Yo Young Feminist Voices Alerts Deliver The Best News Right To Your...
Here at HuffPost UK Young Voices, we're all about bringing you the very best feminism news and views as soon as they happen. That's why we've teamed up with Yo so we can deliver them straight to your...
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