China offers free higher education to poor students

Thomas QuinnNovember 9, 2015

China, in a move nobody seems to have been expecting, is set to provide free senior high school education to poor students. The Chinese government wishes to fur...

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Grants to loans: Are the government really pricing poorer students out of higher education?

SamwinSeptember 21, 2015

In July George Osborne announced his plans to scrap the current student finance maintenance grants available to students from 2016 and replace them with another...

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The calm before the storm: Preparing for university

SamwinSeptember 9, 2015

So for over a decade, you've effectively gone through the same routine at the same time every year; you buy fresh stationery, fresh book materials and uniforms/...

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Four-Day School Week Can Improve Academic Performance

Thomas QuinnSeptember 2, 2015

The old adage that says working harder, for longer produces better results may well be changing according to a new study published this week. Shortening the ...

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A Pen, A Pen! My Sandwich For A Pen!

Owain ReedJune 3, 2015

The first bit of advice I want to impart is simple. When it comes to qualifications, do something vocational. Have a career in mind, look at the things you need...

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Dissertation Desolation: Advice on beginning your final year thesis…

StephFebruary 26, 2015

This time last year, I had begun to write my final year dissertation. Having survived a term of seminars tackling the basic “do’s” and “don'ts” of research, mee...

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40% of Teenage Girls Suffer Sexual Violence

Thomas QuinnFebruary 22, 2015

A new report, which investigated teenage relationships, indicates that as many as two in five teenage girls, some as young as 13, have experienced some form of ...

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Is student debt really worth attending university for?

Jenny WescottFebruary 19, 2015

Although the economy is beginning to recover after the markets crashed in 2008, the future is still far from certain, especially with regard to job prospects fo...

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The Curious Case Of The Backwards Generation: Educating Britain?

SamwinDecember 14, 2014

In the papers today leapt out a headline: Two in three bright pupils go backwards at secondary school: High-achievers find themselves repeating topics and endur...

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How To Tackle All Those Last Minute Assignments Before Chrimbo*

Nike AkintokunDecember 8, 2014

Whether it is 1 week, 2 weeks or just 3 days,  your break up from university for Christmas is just around the corner. If you are just starting to feel the urge ...

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The Life And Times Of Fergus Butler-Gallie

Owain ReedNovember 30, 2014

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness" - Aristotle This one is going to be a sane one. I’ll admit that the last two were a little out of the...

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Dropout Dilemma

us101November 28, 2014

For many students, getting into university is a challenge. On top of having to meet course entry requirements, there is also the whole attending of countless op...

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Students. Will you stand and fight for a free education?

Nike AkintokunOctober 28, 2014

‘Tuition fees have failed. Student poverty and debt are getting worse’ This is only the first line of a medium sized leaflet handed out to me during a recent...

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Part-Time Further Studying: Pros and Cons

Barry QuinnOctober 22, 2014

I am currently four weeks into my new course, an MA in Creative Writing. Undertaking it on a part-time basis, I have found the experience of postgraduate study ...

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The Fault In Our Education System

Faith ClarkeOctober 9, 2014

When we begin secondary school, it seems we are removed from the happy, creative haven that is primary school and dropped into a daunting new world where the ma...

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“What is a Foundation Degree?”

katieherridgeSeptember 28, 2014

With the increase of University fees and living costs reaching an all new high, it is even harder for young people to stay in education and try to build a caree...

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How to ‘really’ achieve a First-class honours at university

Nike AkintokunSeptember 28, 2014

Having always lived in an educational household, you can well imagine, education comes first. My GCSEs were prepared for from Year 8 and A level timetables w...

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An interview with a vampire.. (aka tutor)

SamwinSeptember 18, 2014

It started off like any other Monday, I woke up at 6am, staggered up and tamed my wild bed hair and splashed my face with cold water and got ready for leaving t...

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“Top tips” list for journalism students

Emily CockerSeptember 10, 2014

After sharing links to interesting articles and posting my thoughts on difficulties of the modern day journalist, I wanted to compile a list of “top tips” for j...

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Calling all first years – What is your reading list like for uni?

Nike AkintokunSeptember 7, 2014

You must have at least heard of it by now. It’s white, has your name on it and is probably already forgotten in last night’s jeans and here is your clue. It def...

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Problems EVERY English Graduate Faces

Barry QuinnSeptember 2, 2014

It has probably dawned on you once or twice throughout studying your English degree, and if you’re anything like me you will have likely banished that thought t...

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Post Dissertation – The Dark Ages

Ellis GreengrassFebruary 6, 2014

I posted a while ago about how I was dreading writing my dissertation and the inevitable soul destroying, time consuming and down right tedious feelings that co...

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Out and Proud vs Out and Loud

JohnCarvinDecember 20, 2013

As you may have figured from my other articles, I’m a gay man. Not ‘flamboyantly’ so, but nor am I a man’s-man either. I’m allergic to the gym, and I own skinny...

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My Dissertation and How it Will be the End of Me!

Ellis GreengrassNovember 8, 2013

It doesn't seem like yesterday that I was turning up to my first "ice breaker" session in my first year. When they say icebreaker they mean humiliate yourself i...

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The death of Arts and Humanities 101

Marcus JohnsonMay 29, 2013

A recent survey conducted by “Which?” and “The Higher Education Policy Institute” has recently suggested that almost one in three first year students don’t beli...

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The soundtrack to your revision

writergirlJanuary 13, 2013

It's here…the mince pies have been gloriously consumed, the mulled wine adored, and now it is time to settle back into University. Cue essays, exams, but before...

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University is better the second time round

writergirlNovember 15, 2012

21 years of (often hungover) existence, various hobbies, excellent friends later and you have Clare Dyckhoff, BA. Three years of studying a degree in English re...

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At Least we’re Good at Sports

am77November 14, 2012

I have been living in London for a few months now, and every time someone asks me where I am from and I answer “from Spain”, the reaction is always the same: a ...

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P.U.B – can you guess?

writergirlSeptember 25, 2012

P.U.B, or Post.University.Blues as I like to call it. I apologise greatly if you have clicked on here thinking I was going to be writing about pubs, or some for...

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The tale of two brothers

RebeccaCJuly 15, 2012

Here is a story I wrote for the first year of uni back in 2010 - I hope you enjoy it. Can you guess who the brothers are? :)   We splutter as the ...

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