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 term two always feels longer than its predecessor due to the absence of reading week, yet simultaneously seems to fly by as quickly as the others. Most importantly, like for many […]
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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. This ranking may easily have changed by now, but there is still no disputing that out of roughly 150 universities across the UK, Exeter is certainly up there as having some […]
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. I’m angry that politicians sold false promises for their own political gain (and that the British people fell for them), I’m angry that Brexit deal negotiations have devolved into utter shambles. […]
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, Sir Anthony Seldon, announced the plans in a column in the Daily Mail, with the aim of becoming Britain’s first ‘drug-free’ campus. Seldon told The Daily Mail that it is […]
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 this year marks my third, and presumably final Freshers’ Fair. Instead of wandering around as hopelessly as a cloud in a June sky, it would have very much helped my first […]
£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 its first target of £12,000 within a week of being launched. The Graduate Entrepreneur Maintenance (GEM) Fund is being raised by Think: Try: Do, the University’s programme to aid students in […]
Local elections who?
I’d like to start this with a confession – I didn’t vote in the recent local elections. This was not a choice born out of ignorance, but certainly came from some place of apathy. I had fully intended on voting. It was scheduled in for the evening, right after my busy day of hopping between […]
Feeling hot, hot, hot!
There are two possibilities of how my day will go when the sun rises every morning. In this hot weather, it will either be a backdrop for a perfect day in the park, or it will cause an immediate ‘why don’t we have air conditioning?’ rant. After the long cold winter that seems to have […]
Are students ready for real life?
As an English student with six contact hours a week, managing a full-time job after university seems like a pretty intimidating concept. Envied by my friends for my five-day weekend (that’s right, my only contact hours are on Thursday and Friday), there is so much room for procrastination that it can often be hard to […]
The Sabb Campaigns and Attitudes Towards Mental Health
Anyone who was paying even the slightest attention to the recent Sabb elections will have noticed the dominating presence of mental health across the manifestos. Particularly prominent in the presidential debate, the need to improve and update the wellbeing services at our university was a consensus shared amongst all the candidates, with the subsequent discussions […]