Watch This Humbling Reaction Of Noah VanVooren, A Student With Down Syndrome,...
Anyone who gets accepted into college is understandably over the moon. It's an incredible achievement for students who have worked hard and put in the hours. But for Noah VanVooren, it is the best...
View ArticleSchool Reenactment Of 'The Good Samaritan' Goes Horribly Wrong (VIDEO)
Would you walk by on the other side if someone needed your help? We think this retelling of The Good Samaritan story actually rather proved its point. Albeit unintentionally. "I did survive, but it...
View ArticleWatch FBI Video Warning US Students About Being Recruited As Chinese Spies
The FBI has released a video warning American students about being recruited as spies by China, after one was sentenced to four years imprisonment for espionage. US students studying abroad are being...
View ArticleThe 10 Stages Of Doing An Erasmus During Your University Degree
Whether you have chosen to study languages, or you have simply decided to apply to go abroad for year, Erasmus, or any other international program for that matter, is a daunting process. When your...
View ArticleHow Technology Is Creating Super-Teachers of the Future
Great teachers can make such a difference to a youngster's education. They know their pupils intimately; they inspire and encourage them to learn and to enjoy learning. But even the best teachers hit...
View ArticleGuidance for the Naive Undergraduate - Part Three: In the club, getting tipsy.
Inherently, nightlife and where to find a good party has always been a priority of students. The happiness one can achieve from standing in a room listening to FatBoy Slim's successor, whilst having...
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How Technology Is Transforming Opera
*Ilana Walder Biesanz [2013] is doing an MPhil in European Literature and Culture. She was involved in the first online opera and is on the panel of Opera21 Magazine's 'Technology and Opera'...
View ArticleWe're More Than Our Appearance: Why Female Student Election Candidates Need...
When many of us think of student elections, we envisage over-zealous, politically forthright kids who spent a little bit too long in finishing school minding their p's and q's. These monoliths of the...
View ArticleSchoolkid Entrepreneurs Compete For Funding At Business Contest
Teams of entrepreneurial schoolkids from across Britain will gather in London next week to see which of them has the best business idea, with the winners walking away with thousands in start-up...
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London Student Vanessa Knowles Funds Her Law Degree By Stripping Online
A law student from Leeds has managed to fund her whole law degree at a London university, as well as her luxurious lifestyle, by stripping. Vanessa Knowles has paid her two-year £14,000 law degree in...
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Young Entrepreneur Of The Week: Andy Stephenson Of Weekend Box
25-year old Andy Stephenson's business aims to provide young children with a "weekend box" of activities to keep them occupied, something some parents may wish they had in order to get some peace and...
View ArticleLeave Minimum Wage Be and Cut Taxes to Aid the Cost of Living
I'm not sure the widespread support for an increase in minimum wage would continue if some of the potential consequences became reality. Even some conservatives have now jumped on the populist...
View ArticleWhy Universities Are Wrong to Ban The Sun
The other day I read a blog piece in the Guardian by a Leeds University student who was arguing against the institution's decision to remove the Sun from sale at the uni campus. I couldn't agree with...
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Teachers Voted For Further Strikes In June At NUT Conference
Schools are to face widespread disruption after teachers voted to stage further strikes, starting with a national walkout in the summer, in a bitter row over pay, pensions and conditions. The National...
View Article10 Ways To Build And Boost Your CV
Easter is often seen as the last major opportunity for some final intensive exam revision but it’s also a great time to work on some clever tactics that will help beef up your CV. It will give you a...
View Article5 Ways Volunteering Can Help You Get A Job
If you’ve ever thought about volunteering, you probably thought of it as something you ‘should do’ – for your community, society or people around you who would benefit from help that you're in a...
View ArticleHow To Look Good Dead
I was told once that the best way to know a city is to get lost in it. I can't say if this is a universal truth but with my truly terrible sense of direction I've had plenty of chances to put it to the...
View ArticleInspired Bigotry: Meet the Salafists Behind the Law Society
In the last weeks many women's rights and secularist campaigners up and down the country have been rubbing their eyes incredulously in a state of déjà-vu. After having fought off the threat of the...
View ArticleCan You Really Hate Your Home Town That Much? Why Everyone Should Embrace...
As thousands of students make their second trip back home of the academic year, families across the country will be welcoming sons and daughters with welcoming arms. Cupboards will have been stocked...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn't Do an MA Straight After Graduating
Peer pressure is a horrible, constricting thing. It makes you do things you wouldn't necessarily have done, had you been given more freedom to sit and work out what you really want. While I was doing...
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