The whole world knows the feeling. It can hit you in many forms, and it can affect your day in a variety of ways. The hangover: The curse of a good night out. This morning I experienced it in a way I had not for a while. For two precious seconds I felt good,...
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Archive for May 22nd, 2009
Beating the booze: how to cure your hangover
Politics, pirates and Papadofragakis, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love union elections
Student Politics is a serious business. Students want commitment, experience and innovativeness from their student presidents - failing that, they’ll settle for eye patches and cutlasses. This is why last year the position of Student Union President for the University of York was won by a pirate.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Secondary Schools* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
A teacher who filmed her pupils in a secret documentary about the standards in state schools was yesterday suspended for a year by a General Teaching Panel.
The documentary itself (viewable here) was an expose of mismanagement and bad behaviour in failing (and 'successful') schools. For six months Alex Dolan filmed herself teaching and talking...
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Students at St Andrews in KKK shame – well, Kate Kennedy…err…Klub
Seeing as Oxbridge students haven't been up to anything offensive, racist or crass recently, the papers have got a bit bored and have headed north of the border to give some public schoolboys a hard time.
Students at the University of St. Andrews - well, some of the male ones - have a tradition of...
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Should universities be allowed to drown in debt?
Policy Exchange have released a report arguing that universities should be allowed to fail if in debt. Duncan Robinson argues that, although the principle is sound, the report misses the point.
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The Trouble With Teens
Young people are so often penalized simply for being young. Why not the same for old people, asks Alice-May Purkiss
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Cambridge ignores UCAS personal statements
The admissions tutor at Cambridge has revealed that the university pays scant attention to personal statements. Duncan Robinson explains why this is a good thing and how university admissions as a whole are completely flawed.
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