Education extends beyond the confines of the classroom walls. It encompasses holistic development, encompassing physical fitness, social skills, creativity, and...
Is this the most one-sided fight in history? Does the fact that you can even download a blackboard app on the iPad make this a K.O blow before we’ve even discus...
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/...
In the UK, peer mediation is an initiative which has struggled to take off. Peer mediation - students mediating their own grievances - has the potential to empo...
There was a time not so long ago when people did not have the internet. Some people jokingly call it “the dark ages” others still manage perfectly fine without ...
As we continue to linger just beyond the border of recession, people are still suffering in the aftermath of the destruction. The victims of cut hours, redundan...
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep unde...
"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...
I'd be surprised to find someone out there who hasn't at least heard of Breaking Bad let alone seen it. Yes, Breaking Bad has been quite the talk for a few year...
In the past few days, the topic of Rape Culture has come up in the media quite consistently. I already wrote a post a few weeks ago about the sexual abuse going...
It's been a quiet seven months since the disappearance of the Chibok school girls, kidnapped from a school in Nigeria by the Jihadist terrorist organization Bok...
Anyone who is, or was once a student, will agree that university life comes with no set routine. You are free to wander around wherever you want, whenever you w...
YouTube. "That site with funny videos on the internet". Or is it that anymore?
When I was a kid growing up, I knew what YouTube was. Every kid did. But it wa...
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...
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...
Malala Yousafzai is now the youngest person to ever receive a Nobel Prize in any category after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year at just ...
I've recently discovered football. Of course I'm exaggerating, I used to play football all the time when I was young. I tried to play it the other day in fact, ...
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...
Heres another how have you not seen and this time we're looking at the all great Community which manages to tackle almost getting cancelled so many times but do...
It’s as if our CVs suggest that we’re all bilingual, just not in the ‘ideal candidate’ sense. That is – we’re all individuals, yet what we write about ourselves...
As a teenager I left school twice, once at 16 to go Sixth Form College, and once at 18 to go to university, and I encountered many different teachers who asked ...
I am an old man. Twenty two long years, and they're getting even longer. The eyes of a sailor lost at sea hide in my mirror. Sunken, dishevelled and without a s...
So you have spent the past so many years studying, sweating and most likely if you are anything like me that is, sobbing over your studies, but all your hard wo...
“Overcome all the obstacles I faced yesterday, somehow fate has brought me some more, to face today.”
Becoming a student brought a lot of things to my life. ...
Sadly (devastatingly) I have come to the end of my time at University. So now the summer (and the time that I could kid myself I was busy because school kids we...
With the recent emergence of footage showing a nine-year-old accidentally shooting her Gun Instructor in a supposedly safe and contained environment,I delve int...
So, it’s that time of year again. School is beginning again and you have a million things to worry about from courses to social life, to finances. You’re having...
Over the recent weeks, exam results and university seem to be the topic of conversation, as is always the case around this time of year. This year more than eve...
Year after year decade after decade majority of students will probably have the same dream once they are finished with the educational system. Go to University ...
Freshers’ week is the most anticipated week of the year for university students, whether you’re a fresher yourself or a returning student. It’s a week filled wi...
