Ah Paris! The city that invented chic, the home of romance and glamour. I set off on my year abroad filled with excitement and apprehension in equal measure. I had been planning how to spend my year away from university for what felt like an eternity, but I soon realised that even the best-laid...
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Now before I came here, I – along with every guy I knew – was under the illusion that university was going to be brimming with eager beavers and that getting a girl would be as simple as jive walking, brandishing a bit of body hair and pronouncing yourself heterosexual. Expectations led me to...
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There are a few education stories that make up the staple diet of education reporting in newspapers. There is the good-old A-level results day splash (generally featuring 18 year old lovelies, jumping up and down with bits of paper). The piece that berates how ludicrously easy exams are these days (again, accompanied by 18...
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When you first move into a student house, first impressions are everything as you try desperately to keep the lid on your quirky behaviour in front of your new housemates (so dancing in your underpants to Lou Bega is a big no-no). Every action, you feel, is scrutinized by your fellow inmates as you...
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A science teacher has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly attacking a 14 year-old boy with a 2kg weight. Mr Peter Harvey, who taught at All Saints Roman Catholic School in Mansfield, had recently returned from sick leave after having a stress related stroke. It is alleged that Mr Harvey attacked Jack Waterhouse...
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It’s part of the Amazon, but not what you would expect. Instead of lush tropical jungle and endless rivers flowing towards the mighty Amazon river, much of Bolivia’s slice of the Amazon basin offers visitors a less typical Amazonian experience. For many Bolivia is hardly the first country that springs to mind when planning...
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Hat-tip: Dizzy
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Many things are deemed to be precious within a student household. Fresh underwear, cider, Miss Microwave and her radioactive goodness and the one comfy chair in the dilapidated damp box you like to call the living room are each important comforts. However, if you really want to strike at the heart, at the very...
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