Buying your first home is an exciting, if stressful at times, experience. You need to balance many considerations including affordability, the type of housing a...
A lot can change in the space of a few years. You can start university believing you’re passionate about something, only to graduate with the realisation that y...
Starting university or college in a new city is an exciting time for young people, as well as being scary too! When moving to a new city, the first thing that y...
Most of the time, students accept that their accommodation is probably going to be either lacking in style, or in a pretty abysmal state, but if you h...
If you’re a new student, make your life easier and pack these 10 essential items in your wallet or purse:
Cash
Whether you’re paying that overdue librar...
So I’ve just come back from another big trip and having previously written about the joys of travel, I decided to write about some of the things I have learnt d...
After studying long and hard through mandatory education, you’re faced with a tough initial choice. Do you continue to study or head off into the world of emp...
A-Levels are drawing to a close and summer is just around the corner. But while University may seem a long way off right now, thinking about your finances befor...
Interstellar (Nolan, 2014) is an intriguing motion picture. One interpretation could imply that the protagonist (Cooper) is a disillusioned farmer who wants to ...
Doing things by yourself can be a pretty daunting task. These days people don’t even want to go to the cinema alone, as if you need someone to sit in silence wi...
Quantum Leap zapped onto television in 1989 and sent viewers bouncing around time on a weekly basis. It was a groundbreaking premise, because other than The Tim...
In the headlines today came another government proposal from David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s respective parties. “End the £21,000 payment cut off for student loa...
The following article is a very real look into the forced marriages which happen all over the world, with girls as young as five married to men in exchange for items such as heroin. ...
2015 is the year that I found a new love. In all honesty, I’ve been searching for something for a while. Probably ever since Joel and Ellie left a huge hole in ...
While making my way through the busy McLeodGanj evening market in Dharamshala, India, I met a Kimberly Lee. She told me she was a student from Taiwan and this w...
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 ...
If there's one thing I like about Christmas, it's the music. Catchy festive jingles played every year to lift the spirit.
Seeing as December has finally hit ...
(A true story of alcohol)
'Look! I see Santa!'
'What?'
'Look, the man with the beard!'
'I think he's just homeless?'
'Hey, man. Are you homeless?'
'No'
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"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...
Crisp leaves, bitter mornings, tangerine sunsets, curling up with friends and family, sparklers, bonfires, Christmas parties and holiday spirit. There is someth...
As students we cannot wait for the arrival of a holiday or an event that will give us some much needed time off from working: be it Christmas, a birthday (weeke...
MediaCityUK, located in Salford Quays, Manchester, is a creative media hub filled with innovative technology and digital creativity. It’s also home to the parts...
This article was originally published in The Tibet Post on October 17 2014. Click here to go to part 1 of this series.
Dharamshala: - China has expanded its ...
‘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...
The taxi driver sped at over 40mph up the narrow, winding mountain road, I kept telling myself to keep calm, the guy must drive this route every day - he must k...
It came as a raw and vivid shock to me when one of the strongest people I have ever met informed me he was planning his suicidal. This man was my father; his re...
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 ...
This past week has seen a number of questionable decisions and statements made by government officials. Welfare reform minister Lord Freud spoke of how disabled...
We all know the feeling- you've been playing a great game, a game you love, and you finally made it to the end. You consider, for a while, going back and finish...
