A recent study has drawn a correlation between having a heavier workload and greater wellbeing among UK undergraduate students. Over 14,000 UK undergraduates responded to a survey, and results showed that those who had a workload of 30-39 hours a week were more content with their course and showed fewer...
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In the summer before I started university, I worked as a volunteer at a music festival. Most of the volunteers were teenagers like me, and viewed it as a way of seeing their favourite acts without the hefty cost. The majority of the work was easy and enjoyable, as we...
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Ocean’s 8, a gender-swapped version of the Ocean’s 11 franchise, is currently hitting the silver screen this month, and some of the first reviews are in. Their verdict? A big meh. The film does what you’d expect, but it’s underwhelming to an extreme. Not that you’d get this from the...
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A new study published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) on 12 June revealed that a majority of students want universities to take a harsher approach for drug dealers and users.
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“It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen”. “I want a parade like the one in France”, were the words that came out, in an almost childlike manner, when Donald Trump was courted by Emmanuel Macron’s military show on July 14th last year. A “relation spéciale”, the French...
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Matthew Dale explores the possibility of using psychedelic drugs as a treatment for certain mental health conditions, such as PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
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Love Island is back! Once again Twitter is full of opinions, phrases like “muggy” and “my type on paper” are being thrown around un-ironically, and making plans between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm is inconceivable. In the age of crossovers, we can hardly help but imagine… what would happen if...
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Oxford University is facing criticism after suggesting in an email that rising homelessness in the city is due to the generosity of university students. The email was sent to students by the university’s senior proctor, Professor Mark Edwards, and the junior proctor, Cécile Fabre, in an attempt to curb the...
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Maya Kad gives an overview of the Pint of Science Festival, which came to Coventry for the first time.
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The Home Office has added 11 nations to the list of 28 countries whose students are subjected to a “streamlined” British visa application process.
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Recently established university regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), warn that universities which fail to improve student diversity may have their tuition fees cut by a third.
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From the beginning of the twentieth century, new genres of music such as swing, soul, jazz, rap and R&B began to emerge, with black musicians at the forefront of their creation. However, over the course of the development of these music genres, white musicians have appropriated styles from black musicians...
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Upon hearing that Measure for Measure was one of the choices for this year’s WUDS in the Woods, my feelings were mixed. On the one hand I was excited: this play is an excellent piece of literature but performed infrequently due to it being categorised as a problem play, not...
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