‘19 YEAR OLD GRADUATED ETONIAN SEEKS social, intellectual and aesthetic equal. Must be pashmina clad, preferably adorning worn ballet pumps, Jack Wills tracksuit bottoms and in possession of a public school education?’
Is The University of St Andrews elite or elitist? Having been labelled last year the 3rd best...
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Poor fuckers.
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In my experience, house-hunting has always proved a rather stressful business. No matter how many times the university’s Accommodation Office announces that there is no shortage of student properties, no need to rush into anything, we are nevertheless consumed with a nagging suspicion that if we wait much longer, all the best places...
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Like a lot of graduates, my friend Sterling Chan hasn’t managed to find a job in the recession. So he’s spent a lot of his post-university summer fishing, on the west coast of Canada. In the video below a humpback whale gets a little too close for comfort.
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Student debt is set to rise to £23,500, according to the Push, the university guide. This is quite a lot of money, but as I’ve argued before, it’s less than you think. It’s certainly less than the £83,000 the Telegraph argue that a typical three year BA will cost once tuition fees increase. Here...
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The arguments I made in a previous article about university education brought about some debate from a friend of mine. Natasha Sinton collared me and said that she can’t really disagree with the “yearning by both major political parties to get more working-class kids into tertiary education”. Thanks to the wonders of MSN (the...
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I’ve only just come to terms with this one, actually. For some reason, facing death by a large Irish man was acceptable; it’s something that can happen any day of the week and has done since we first tried to cow the Celts under British rule. However, the notion that my feet were left...
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“Don´t worry, he´s killed ten people so you´ll be safe.” We were in La Boca, home to Boca Juniors Football club and reputably one of the most dangerous areas in Buenos Aires. I felt anything but safe.
Why we ended up walking around La Boca with a possible murderer was due to our penny pinching...
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An Englishman, an Irishman and an Australian walked into the hostel. Sounds like the start of a joke, right? Not quite. They’d been travelling separately for months but met up somewhere in Eastern Europe, got on quite well and decided to go along together for the rest of their trips. Initially all seemed well,...
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Sometimes talking about higher education can be dull and depressing. No one likes paying tuition fees, and even fewer people like talking about it. So here’s a monkey taunting a doggy.
Cheeky monkey.
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