Opening Your Oyster - Got the Degree, Now Get a Job!
So here you are. The exams are here at last and soon, after long hard years, the education system will finally spit you out. You are on course for the degree you had hoped for and the horizon should be...
View ArticleDid You Know That Sex and Relationship Education Is Not Compulsory?
Most don't. I'm not surprised as it seems a no brainer right? To tell kids age-appropriate information so they can prepare for certain life events in advance and handle them better. There's been a time...
View Article10 Types Of People You Will Meet In Freshers' Week
Freshers' Week. That once in a lifetime moment when thousands of students of different personalities and backgrounds are merged to eat, sleep and party together. Nervous sixth formers eagerly (or not)...
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Life as a Syrian Refugee in Calais, France
I recently spent a week in Calais on the Northern border of France filming Syrian refugees. The men there are mainly between the ages of 20 and 35. They left their home country in the hopes of finding...
View ArticleTrojan Horse: Education Funding Agency Criticised For Being Slow To Intervene...
The government body responsible for allocating billions of pounds of taxpayers' money to schools, colleges and academies has been strongly criticised by MPs for being too slow to intervene in failing...
View ArticleLooking Beyond Medicine: How I'm Fighting Chronic Illness With Diet
Exactly a year ago my life started to change. I have always been ill. I grew up with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that caused me unbearable pain and frequent dislocations. It...
View ArticleBritish Student Ahmad Zeidan, Jailed For Nine Years In UAE Prison, Was...
A British student who has been sentenced to nine years in a United Arab Emirates prison for possessing £3 worth of cocaine has said he was tortured into making a confession. Speaking from prison, Ahmad...
View ArticleTheo Paphitis Slams 'Nonsense' That Migrants Take Native Britons' Jobs
Former Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis has issued a robust defence of immigrants' contribution to the UK, rubbishing claims that they take native Britons' jobs as "nonsense'. Speaking to the Huffington...
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Search For 24 Students Swept Away By Wall Of Water In Himachal Pradesh, India...
A desperate search for 24 students swept away on a riverside in India by a wall of water which was released unexpectedly from a dam upstream has resumed. Around 50 students from the VNR Vignan Jyothi...
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Uganda Christian University Forces Female Students To Have Random Pregnancy...
A university in Uganda is forcing its female students to take random pregnancy tests, and expelling those who are pregnant. Bishop Barham College in Kabale district, which is affiliated to the Uganda...
View ArticleAlternative für Großbritannien? What European Politicians Can Get Away With...
Last week, as not so widely reported on in British mainstream media, the German party at the forefront of euroscepticism, Alternative für Deutschland, applied to join the ECR, the group within the...
View ArticleA Little List: Rare Book Trade Thoughts in Gilbert-and-Sullivan Mode
I am getting ready to travel to Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. As a faculty member I teach a summer course there each year. Preparing for this course I end up pondering rare books,...
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The Humble Cuppa Has Had a Makeover
It's no surprise when I say, that those of us Britons love a cup of tea. We are renowned for it, and often get mocked in a fake (and usually poor) cockney accent 'Do-ya-wanna-nother-brew-mayte'....
View ArticleTeachers: Burnt Out or Burning Brightly?
Who do you want in front of your kids for over 500 hours of their formative years - a stressed, intolerant screeching banshee or a calm, compassionate and flexible human being with a sense of humour?...
View ArticleUK Postgraduates Must Not Become an Endangered Species
If there are lies, damned lies and statistics then the recently announced fact that only 26% of postgraduate places in UK universities are held by UK students can be spun as both a failure and a...
View ArticleAre We Loosing Pride in Our 'Pride's'?
Pride events. Many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people will attend one during their life-time. But one question seems to enter my mind at certain times, have we started to lose pride in our...
View ArticleComment - Is the 'Rainbow Crossing' the Symbol of Solidarity?
As recent news stories have declared, Brighton, best known for beaches and the pier, is now becoming known as the City with a 'rainbow crossing.' The crossing, which was officially unveiled yesterday,...
View ArticleTeaching Children About War: Mum's Not the Word
The 70th anniversity of D-Day the centenary of the First World War pinpoint 2014 as a year of wartime nostalgia. Amongst fabulous stories of rebel veterans absconding from their care homes to Normandy...
View ArticleWhy to Enter the Movies Alone
There is a first time for everything, but most have probably been to a cinema with your boyfriend/girlfriend or a bunch of mates several times. I just went to watch Transcendence, and for once, I...
View Article'Hermit' Birmingham Student Lived in Library for Six Weeks - In Exchange For...
In an extreme attempt to save his degree, a failing University of Birmingham student, known as the “UoB Library Hermit”, lived in the library for six weeks after striking a deal with his top lawyer...
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