Warwick Students' Rally Against Neo-Nazi Group Who Believes 'There Is No...
Hundreds of Warwick University students gathered together on Thursday to protest against a neo-Nazi group that believes “there is no legitimate reason not to be a racist”. The demo, organised by...
View ArticleAmerican Student Travels Around Europe In Just a Bathrobe
An American student is touring the wonders of Europe this summer. So far, so normal. Except this guy calls himself the “Bathrobe Crusader”. In other words, he’s travelling around Europe, wearing a...
View ArticleMiliband's Snap With the Sun May Be the Epitome of Shallow, Lazy Politics
Seeing that now-infamous photograph of Ed Miliband, holding Thursday's copy of the Sun out in front of him as if it were one of those enormous novelty cheques, with an awkward grin on his face,...
View ArticleDavid Cameron Tells Britain To Stop Being 'Bashful' About Values, After...
Britons must stop being "bashful" about their country's achievements, David Cameron has said, as he set out plans to teach all school pupils about "British values". Teachers were told by Education...
View ArticleGun Control: Texas School Displays Signs Warning Staff Are Armed 'And May Use...
A Texas school district has erected signs warning staff are armed and “may use whatever force is necessary to protect our students.” Union Grove Independent School District in Upshur County is now...
View ArticleCambridge Trinity May Ball Revellers Celebrate The End Of Exams (PICTURES)
Scores of university students in various stages of elegant undress emerged blinking onto the sunlit streets of Cambridge on Tuesday morning. Dishevelled and bleary-eyed, the hoards had been celebrating...
View ArticleForeign Office Defends G4S Presence at Human Rights Conference
Government officials spoke out on Friday, after it emerged that controversial corporation G4S provided the security at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. The security company has...
View ArticleGoogle Is Creepy
Google's informal motto is, "don't be evil." Broadly speaking they stick to this. Google defends free speech and uses a democratic PageRank system to priorities its search results. Google invests...
View ArticleLonger School Days Needed To Boost Poor, White Children's Results, MPs Say
White, working class children need longer school days and better teachers to boost their attainment and catch up with poor children from other ethnic backgrounds, MPs have suggested. In a new report,...
View ArticleA Tribute to Dr Isa Abdur Rahman
One year has passed since Dr Isa Abdur Rahman, a British doctor and Imperial graduate, died in Syria where he was treating injured civilians. At only 26 years old, Dr Isa Abdur Rahman died when the...
View ArticleGuidance for The Naive Undergraduate - Part Five: Nightclub Security.
One of my hipster friends recently said to me that the problem with being a university student is that there is no security. I wasn't quite sure what kind of security she was talking about, because at...
View ArticleSchool for Creative Startups; Take Note Mr Gove
Despite superficially positive figures regarding unemployment coming out in the past few months, let's be clear, there is a massive employment crisis in the United Kingdom. We have unemployment at...
View Article10 Unforgettable Views to Add to Your Bucket-List
The summer break, especially for university students, is a time to travel and to tick off a few things on your bucket list. Obviously though, as students, our budgets are tight and often in-disposable...
View ArticleObesity in Africa
*Georgina Murphy [2009] did a PhD in Public Health and Primary Healthcare at the University of Cambridge. This work was done as part of a collaboration between the University of Cambridge, Wellcome...
View ArticleDegrees of Separation: Jordan's Contiguous Border With Israel
Palestinians who utilise the border crossings between Israel and Jordan are subject regularly to systematic discrimination. It is surprising, therefore, that Jordan continues to consent to Israel...
View ArticleStudents Matter
Keeping students happy has become a real concern. It is rare to find a university that doesn't wait on tenterhooks for the results of the National Student Survey. It would be all too easy to treat...
View ArticleHeadteacher Defends Draconian School Uniform Policy After 250 Girls Sent Home...
The headteacher of a secondary school where more than 250 girls were allegedly taken out of lessons because their skirts were too short has claimed several were under peer pressure to wear...
View ArticleMichael Gove Has Changed Everything You Once Knew About School Food
The ever popular Michael Gove unveiled a brutal a crackdown on fatty and sweet foods on Tuesday as part of new standards on school meals. Margaret Thatcher may have been notorious as the "milk...
View ArticleStudent Stabbed To Death On Essex Footpath 'Targeted For Muslim Dress'
A Saudi Arabian student stabbed to death in brutal attack on an Essex footpath may have been targeted for her Islamic dress. Detectives are investigating the possibility Nahid Almanea was targeted...
View ArticleTeach Five-Year-Olds To Start Their Own Business, Says PM's Adviser Lord Young
Children as young as five have been urged to start up their own businesses as part of a raft of proposals from David Cameron's enterprise adviser Lord Young to hardwire "an enterprising attitude" into...
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