Thousands More Women Than Men Apply For University Places
Nearly 100,000 more women than men have applied for university places this year - a 30% increase. UCAS, which recorded the applications amid concerns over the growing gender gap in higher education,...
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Gay Student Cut Off By Parents, Asks For Donations To Fund Education
A US student was cut off by her parents for her sexuality, and is now resorting to donations to pay for university. Nineteen-year-old Kate Koenig's parents cut her off after discovering that she is...
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Cambridge University Students Leave Chocolate In A Library Book For Exam Stress
Cambridge students have been hiding chocolate around the library for their peers to enjoy during exams. A student at the university's all-female Newnham College found chocolate bars hidden in a...
View ArticleOur Confusing Engagement With the House of Windsor
Once upon a time there was a Queen and a nation of reverent subjects. No, this isn't a history lesson or even a fantasy novel, this is a description of our nation for much of its history since our...
View ArticleWhy the Tories Have to Go in 2015
Every single time an aggressive campaign of privatisation and deregulation has been embarked upon by a country, poverty and inequality have quite literally exploded. The Tory government have the...
View ArticleThe Unions Fight is Our Fight
We can give our kids a day off to celebrate the coronation of an unelected head of state none of us have ever met, but far be it for us to have them out of the classroom in the name of better working...
View ArticleThree Things I've Learnt as an Ex-Cancer Patient
The best pieces of advice vary for me. The ones that I hear most frequently and forcefully are the ones I give myself the morning after a gin night out. I can no longer ignore the correlation between...
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We Need Pride
Pride. The torrential rain ran down the rainbow cheeks of the crowd, transforming everyone into a big messy sludge of colour. Every footstep was followed by a squelch in my soggy once white, not...
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Student Catches Bluefin Tuna Fish Worth £1m In Cornwall, Government...
A group of friends who caught a rare fish worth £1m must've thought they had hit the jackpot - until the government's environmental department confiscated it. Sarah Little, Laura Pickervance, Hannah...
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15 Things Going to a Girls' School Taught Me
1. IT'S ACCEPTABLE TO PULL OUT YOUR WEDGIE AT ANY TIME AND IN ANY PLACE Ladies underwear can be a constant dilemma. To lacy, little knickers and tight traumatizing thongs, the wedgie witch is forever...
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If We're Talking 'Value', Then Education is Worth More Than Money
Since, approximately, the beginning of time, politicians, journalists and, if Guardian comments threads are anything to go by, members of the public, have been debating the 'value' of Higher...
View Article10 Ways You Know You're A Journalism Student
The journalism degree. A ticket into the 'dying industry' everyone wants to work in, but nobody seems to get hired in. At times it might feel as if you're not learning anything (like, when you've just...
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This Patch Makes Salad Taste Like Steak: Students' Electrolux Design Lab...
Would you like a patch which makes salad to taste like steak? A machine which lets people allergic to animals keep pets? Or how about a program which scans your body and builds your clothes? These are...
View ArticleTake Note Nicky Morgan: Barrowford School Sends Adorable Letter To Children...
They may only be in primary school, but these children will already have a pretty great attitude to life after their headteacher sent a letter telling them there "are many ways of being smart". The...
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#GoveGone: The Funniest Twitter Reactions To Michael Gove No Longer Being...
There was dancing in the streets! Or at least in the staff rooms. Yes, Michael Gove is no longer the Education Secretary - moved, as he was, to the office of Chief Whip by David Cameron in today's...
View ArticleWomen Engineers Needed - Join a Network for Support
I believe that every woman with the desire, skills and training should be able to enter and succeed in any profession she wishes. So it was shocking, when as Minister for Women and Equalities I learnt...
View ArticleMore Than Just Making the Tea
You might be forgiven for thinking that our economy has fully recovered, especially with unemployment back to pre-recession levels, and the UK showing the strongest growth in Europe, surpassing all...
View ArticleChoosing The Ideal Student House: A Realistic Guide
Choosing your first house as a student is a baffling task. How do estate agents even work? Will they rip you off? (Answer: probably). What makes a good location? Do you need a lounge? Garden? Hot tub?...
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Barrowford Primary School Head 'Amazed' At Reaction To Incredible Pupil Exam...
A headteacher has said she is "amazed" her letter to pupils telling them not to worry about exam results has gone round the world. Rachel Tomlinson wrote to children at Barrowford Primary School in...
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Tony Abbott's Education Guru Keven Donnelly Backs Bringing Back The Cane
Next the dunce hat and the back board? Australian prime minister Tony Abbott's newly appointed 'Education Tsar' has suggested caning children in schools could be "very effective... if it's done...
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