More Than 23,000 New Apprenticeships Pledged During National Apprenticeship Week
More than 23,000 new placements have been pledged by firms during National Apprenticeship Week, new figures have shown. Companies including BT, Microsoft, Halfords, Barclays, British Gas and Network...
View ArticleAlthough the Economic Climate Is Slowly Recovering, Too Many Young People Are...
For us, family is everything. We both grew up in loving and supportive families who wanted the best for us and not once did we feel isolated with nowhere to turn. Our families provided comfort,...
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My 'BBC Free Speech' Experience With Ed Miliband
I was lucky enough to be a part of the BBC Free Speech audience yesterday, when Ed Miliband was invited. It was an interesting experience and encompassed questions from the depths of domestic...
View ArticleFive Ways to Get More Girls Into Sport
Sport has been part of my life for as long as I remember. So I find it hard to understand friends and colleagues who say that they never exercise, and have no desire to. But my London Youth colleague...
View ArticleThings You Shouldn't Do Now You're A Grown Up.. But Definitely Still Do
As soon as you're a grown up, you suddenly have money, a tolerance to alcohol, expensive clothes, pride. Right? Wrong. Sorry to break it to you, but things don't change all that much once you reach...
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Maryland University Fraternity Sent Racist Emails Encouraging Students To...
A US university's fraternity is under investigation after sending a racist email encouraging its members to rape women, less than a week after a video surfaced of another society singing highly...
View ArticleNick Clegg Blocks New Terror Laws Preventing Extremists From Universities
Nick Clegg has vetoed Conservative plans to introduce new terror laws in order to prevent extremists from speaking at universities. The Deputy Prime Minister blocked the plans to new laws in a private...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Kindness of Strangers
I have been travelling for just over six months and haven't put finger to keyboard for the whole time beyond the weekly reassuring email home. The good English girl that is still left in me feels like...
View ArticleSchools Should Show Students Porn, Says Danish Professor
A Danish professor is calling on schools to show porn films in class so teenagers can get distinguish from real relationships and unrealistic sex portrayed by the porn industry. "Instead of having sex...
View ArticleHelp Me FIX Young People's Mental Health
I am so over the way my generation is represented - or should I say 'misrepresented'. Look at mainstream media and, seemingly, we're too busy capturing the best selfie or working out how to get on the...
View ArticleUltimate Revision Tips
Revision is certainly not the best part of student life be it at school, college or university. We all procrastinate.. that's a big word for such an easy task, but it's nigh on impossible to avoid when...
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Do Madonna's Comments on Rape Portray Our Societies' Attitudes Towards...
Madonna recently opened up on Sirius XM's Howard Stern Show about her first years living in New York. She bravely told her story of being raped in the city before she became the superstar she is today....
View ArticleWhy Sierra Leone's Ebola Orphans Are Not Victims
Recently, I had the opportunity to address the Queen and leaders from around the world at the Commonwealth Day Observance at Westminster Abbey. This year's Commonwealth theme is 'A Young Commonwealth'....
View ArticleIs Jeremy Clarkson Really the Scourge of Political Correctness, the...
'Political correctness' is now more usually used in a disdainful, irritated way. Yet despite the term's currently lowly reputation, it does serve some use. It can make one think twice before saying...
View ArticleDisadvantaged Clever Teens Half As Likely As Their Richer Classmates To Study...
Clever, poor teenagers are almost half as likely as their richer classmates to study, and get good grades, in the A-level subjects that will help them gain places at the UK's top universities, a study...
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Vauxhall's Green Party Candidate on What Bitcoin Enthusiasts and...
Gulnar Hasnain, the Green Party candidate for the London borough of Vauxhall, has just closed a cryptocurrency crowdfunding campaign. She is the first mainstream European politician to accept Bitcoin,...
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'Boys Would Brag How Far They Could Fire Their Breast Milk'. Teens Imagine A...
"Lactating would become a competition between men.. Men would compete to see how much breast milk they could hold and for how long. The more you can hold, the more masculine you are." Sounds like...
View ArticleStudent Who Said 'It is Better to Die From Vodka Than From Boredom' Dies...
A Brazilian student who stated on his Facebook profile "it is better to die from vodka than from boredom", died after downing 25 shots of vodka in a drinking competition at his university. Humberto...
View ArticleSwizzels Is Looking For An Official Sweet Taster - And They'll Get Paid In...
Swizzels, the company which makes love hearts refreshers and drumsticks, is on the hunt for an official sweet taster - who'll get paid in sweets, naturally. Applicants must be 16 and above to apply,...
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'Control Freak' Boyfriend Sets Up Crowd-Funding Page To Follow Girlfriend On...
A crazy-in-love boyfriend launched a crowd-funding page to raise enough money to follow his girlfriend on holiday to Miami. And guess what? He raised the $300 - and more - to make the trip....
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