For me, the literature I find most compelling is didactic. If a novel, poem, or play has taught me something, I consider it a text worth reading again and again. However, literature is not just fiction. Non-fiction books are constantly being written by historians attempting to provide a new, idiosyncratic...
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Sorbonne University in Paris, France was shut down after riot police intervened to stop about 200 students occupying the university, protesting the proposed higher education reforms, on Thursday 13 April.
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WALK THE MOON are perhaps best known for their 2015 hit Shut Up and Dance. For a time no party was complete without it and the song became a summer anthem. Now, three years on, the band have released a new album and are travelling the UK with their Press...
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Teenagers in the northern part of England are less likely to go into higher education than their southern counterparts, a recent report has revealed. An investigation by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, stated that children in the north suffer from several disadvantages that affect their prospects of going to university and...
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A recent study from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that young people aged 16-24 experience the most loneliness of any age group. 10% of people within the age bracket were found to be “always or often” lonely, a staggering three times higher than those aged 65 and above....
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Whilst the University and College Union (UCU) have suspended industrial action for the foreseeable future, the Office for Students (OfS) has issued guidance for all universities to maintain academic standards under all circumstances when dealing with lost contact hours.
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This was a film I was dreading to see. Not because of what was going to be shown on screen, but of watching it in the cinema. A Quiet Place is a suspense thriller set in a post-apocalyptic future that revolves around the dangers of making too much noise at the...
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Researchers claim that the suicide rate among UK students is higher than among the general population of their age group.
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The concept of fictional Film Dystopias initially sparks up thoughts of fanciful fictitious fantasy that are in many cases (gladly) far detached from our own world, being the product of the profound, morbid and wandering imaginations of screenplay and literary fiction writers. Yet, despite these worlds or ‘realities’ being ones...
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The new season of Ru Paul’s drag race has sped into action already delivering brilliantly on sassy remarks and jaw-dropping performances in only it’s first three episodes. “Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie” is perhaps the most memorable exit in Drag Race herstory, by uttering just two words Miss Vanessa...
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Libraries are a place of serenity. They are a cultural hub where people delve into works of literature, learning about common histories and contemporary issues, or getting lost in stories of worlds beyond ours. They’re a sacred space of quiet meditation – so the last place where you would expect,...
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Graham Greene was a Catholic and a traveller. He suggested that the epigraph to all of his novels should be a beautiful and eloquent piece of poetry by Robert Browning: Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things / the honest thief, the tender murderer / the superstitious atheist. The...
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Jemma Macgregor reports on new research from Columbia University which suggests that our brains never stop growing, with neurogenesis occurring in elderly brains.
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