Tag: students
Jack the Hat press release
In his book Shane O’Sullivan, more commonly known as Jack the Hat, explores true stories of locals and university students alike persuading the reader...
The end is nigh – about to gradu-ache
I MUST admit, I have been guilty of watching the weeks left of term decrease this side of Christmas. It’s a strange one as...
The university mortality crisis: “the problem is still deeply prevalent…”
CN: discussion of suicide and mental illness
UNIVERSITIES are in a mortality crisis. Only last year, the Office of National Statistics recorded 95 university suicides:...
Guild or Union?
NO matter your opinions on the Students’ Guild, it’s an organisation you have to really go out of your way to avoid on campus....
The student perfectionist
I HAVE a tendency, when anyone asks, “Don’t you think you’ve taken on a bit much this year?”, to wave a hand and laugh,...
The price of moving away
BEING away from home and being at university is at first a strange feeling, one that definitely takes getting used to. I felt this...
The student drinking problem
IN a 2016 survey conducted by The Tab, the University of Exeter ranked as number 16 in a list of the UK’s heaviest-drinking universities....
Never Gonna Give EU Up
EVERY time that I think I’m over Brexit, I realise that I’m really, *really* not. It’s been over two years: I’m still deeply angry....
Buckingham University asks students to sign drug pledge
Buckingham University recently announced that they are to begin asking incoming students to sign a contract pledging against taking drugs on campus.
The university’s vice-chancellor,...
OOD – Figuring out the Freshers’ Fair
I may not have found a grey hair yet - only an oddly yellow one from my disastrous attempt to go ginger - but...
