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Student Blows $90,000 Tuition Fund, Hates Parents For Not Bailing Her Out...
A 22-year-old student has managed to blow $90,000 in three years and is heading into her final year of university without a penny. Kim, whose second name is unknown, has been in touch with a radio show...
View ArticleThe Unhearing Ventriloquism of the NUS
I am indebted to Anastasia Tropsha for providing the central conceit of this article Every time we think that the NUS cannot set itself further from the interests of ordinary students, we are proven...
View ArticleMental Health Stigma Is Still Alive
People keep insisting that the stigma of mental health problems are long gone. From institutions saying it's okay to speak up about your mental health if you are having issues to health professionals...
View ArticleHeadmaster Makes Incredible Doctor Who Video To Say Goodbye To Students,...
In what we are going to hail the greatest leaving video of the year, nay, the decade, a headteacher bade farewell to his students with an incredible Doctor Who video - even regenerating into his...
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Teenage YouTube 'Carnage' Vlogger Says He's Lucky To Be Alive After Jumping...
A teenage YouTube vlogger has admitted filming himself jumping off tower bridge was his "stupidest idea to date," and said he is lucky to be alive. Shah Faisal Shinwari, who vlogs under the account...
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Exam Boards Ridiculed As New 'Tougher' GCSE History Exam Asks Students To...
A new 'tougher' GCSE History exam has been ridiculed for including 'spot the difference' questions, where pupils are provided with two pictures and asked to list the differences. Schools Minister Nick...
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Teen Gets Tattoo Of Names Of Seventeen Friends During 'Lad's Trip' To Malia
Teen Danny Joe Parkinson has taken holiday memorabilia to the next level and had 17 of his friends' names tattooed on his leg following a 'lads trip' to Greece. The 19-year-old salesman from Manchester...
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Packing Up My University Year
On Sunday, I moved out of the flat I've called home for the last ten months to the house I grew up in but no longer call home. A year ago, I would never have imagined I'd feel so at home in York, or so...
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Universities Urge Britain To Stay In The European Union
University chiefs are set to back Britain's membership of the European Union ahead of the in-out referendum. Academics will insist that EU membership has had an “overwhelmingly positive impact” on the...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn Is the Male Margaret Thatcher and Could Win in 2020 - No, Really
Jeremy Corbyn could be our next Prime Minister. Not just statistically, on the basis of the latest YouGov poll that Blair and the PLP have been flapping over, but really. Like really really. I'm not...
View ArticleWhy Symbols Matter: The Case for the Rhodes Must Fall Movement in Oxford
Symbols matter. They matter to individuals and they matter to collectives, including nations. And symbols can matter positively or negatively. When the Governors of South Carolina and Alabama ordered...
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The Disconnect Between the Labour Party and the Electorate
Since 2010, the Labour Party has faced a dichotomy of views: whether or not to defend the party's record in Government, or whether to reject traditional economic thinking and being to embrace...
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I Spent Three Years at Cambridge University and It Made Me an Arrogant,...
Cambridge University's infamous week of post-exams decadence ended over a month ago now and the 'aftermovies' are still trickling in. As a recent graduate and cynical alumnus, my newsfeed is still...
View ArticleThe NUS Play at Geopolitics Because Listening to Students Is Hard Work
This week, I nearly thought that the National Union of Students did something honourable. I was checking Twitter before going to sleep on Monday night when I found out the NUS - the organisation that...
View ArticleOn Religion and Faith
I've written about a whole host of different topics in the past. I've written about marriage, sexuality, success, the future, and a whole host more, but yet I've never discussed religion, despite it...
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About the 2:1
"A 2:1 is all you need" is a phrase I've probably heard a thousand times at uni and is almost certainly something I comforted myself with when the occasional essay came back with a tear-inducing grade....
View Article'Speak To Your Sexual Assaulter First' - Universities Aren't Addressing Lad...
Almost half of universities don't have a formal policy on sexual harassment, with one institution telling students speaking to their attackers is the "preferred" approach, a damning report has...
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Hope Is All That Remains for Susiya
As the crowd of left-wing Israelis arrived at Susiya, they stopped dumbfounded. What greeted them in the vast South Hebron hills was a mix of ramshackle tents, mattresses and a few grape vines. Is...
View ArticleManchester Student Goes To Dizzying Heights To Get Incredible Selfie Shot...
One student went to rather extreme lengths to get a selfie shot - flying 6,500ft above the earth while on holiday with Turkey, in on the world's second highest paraglide. Lauren Newell, a 20-year-old...
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Students Design Incredible Tidal Barrage For River Mersey, Which Could Power...
Three architecture students have come up with a design for a tidal barrage which could power up to 200,000 homes in Liverpool with green electricity. Josh Thomas, Nathan Foakes and Joe Clayton designed...
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