Tag: students
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...
£12,000 raised for University of Exeter’s entrepreneurs
Student entrepreneurs at the University of Exeter have cause to celebrate, as a university scheme to crowdfund financial support for student start-ups has reached...
