The Top Young Universities In The World, According to QS Rankings
Universities from Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea took the top five positions in this year’s QS Top 50 under 50 rankings. The league table ranks universities which have been established within the...
View ArticleRutgers University Offers Beyoncé Course To Students
American university students can take a new course centred around Beyoncé, which will aim to "explore American race, gender and sexual politics." The course, called “Feminist Perspectives: Politicising...
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Young Entrepreneur Of The Week: Gojimo Founder George Burgess, Who's Hiring...
Meet George Burgess. He's a 21-year-old who decided to drop out of Stanford University, start his own business and has even hired his former teacher. Not only that, the young entrepreneur, who launches...
View ArticleBirmingham Student Charged With Violent Disorder After Campus Protest Over Cuts
Birmingham students are alleged to broken down the doors of university buildings and hurled smoke bombs during a protest over government cuts, with 13 people arrested. Simon Furse, 22, of Pershore Road...
View ArticleStay In School Or Else You'll Die A Gory Death, Australian PSA Advert Warns...
A quite frankly WTF video encouraging kids to stay in school has been released in Australia to promote the importance of education.. with a pretty gruesome ending. The message from Learn for Life...
View ArticleTeaching Sex In Primary Schools
It doesn't happen. Sex and relationship education (SRE) that is taught in primary schools (ages 4-11) is point blank not about teaching young children how to have sex. It is about giving...
View ArticleWhy Are We Ignoring the Human Cost of Benefits Street?'
Benefits Street, the latest Channel 4 'reality' TV documentary, has been the subject of much controversy. If you took most of the discussion around it as gospel, you'd be forgiven for assuming Benefits...
View ArticleTo Take Offence Is to Attribute Meaning and Merit
The Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Maajid Nawaz and Director of Quilliam, the world's first counter-extremism think tank triggered a progeny of controversy on the social media giant, Twitter, after...
View ArticleGun Fight at the Ukip Corral
Nigel Farage is frequently described as a "populist" and "man of the people" (although seemingly only by his critics), but last week he did something uncharacteristically un-populist. "I think proper...
View ArticleYou Know You're An Adult When...
As we grow up many of us dream of that day when we're all grown up. Hoping for a successful career, a huge house, loads of friends and everything being perfect like it always is in those films (at...
View ArticleWATCH: Turkey Attempts To Fly Over University, Fails
"Wait, turkeys can fly?" asks the amateur cameraman incredulously. It's like he read our minds. But, as we are soon to tragically find, some of them most definitely cannot. Rest in peace, turkey. You...
View ArticleStudent Movement Gets Ready to Resist Rising Debt
This year the Tories are preparing a new, massive attack on students, which promise to be as regressive and damaging to the future of millions of people as the trebling of tuition fees has been -...
View ArticleA Fair Deal for the Young and Homeless
Boom times are here again, according to the headline in one newspaper. But will everyone, especially our young and homeless, be able to take advantage of this potential economic bonanza? Every year an...
View ArticleLie January: Why I Told Everyone I Was Doing "Dry January" When I Really Wasn't
It's the end of January, which means that for many dry-mouthed abstainers across the UK, a long month of tortuous self-discipline is finally over. Contrary to the beliefs of many of my acquaintances,...
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More Evidence That Teachers Are Not Paid Nearly Enough
When it comes to teacher pay in poor countries, a recent report from a U.N. agency does not paint a pretty picture. According to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
View ArticleEnglish 'A Second Language In One In Nine British Schools'
English is not the first language for the majority of children in more than one in nine schools, it has been reported. Last year the majority of pupils in 1,755 primary and secondary schools spoke...
View ArticleLitter-Picking And Lines For Naughty Pupils? It's Michael Gove's Plans For...
Misbehaving pupils face the prospect of being told to pick up litter or write out lines hundreds of times under plans by Education Secretary Michael Gove for a return to traditional classroom...
View ArticleHow Completing a Dryathlon Helped Me Grow Up
On 1 January this year I woke up in the same way as half of the UK's adult population, nursing my half-hungover, half-still-drunk self in the foetal position. This wasn't a one-off for me, it was an...
View Article27 Best Vines Of The Week In 1 Video: Jan. 25 - Jan. 31, 2014 (VIDEO)
Vine, Twitter’s micro-video social network, is perhaps the best form of entertainment by and for Generation Distraction. With a limit of six seconds per video, Vine provides a steady supply of...
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