The University of Oxford has denied that they turned down Stormzy’s scholarship offer, after it was announced that he will subsidise two black British students to attend the University of Cambridge.
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In Brazil, right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro was recently elected president. I’d be lying if I said I had followed the Brazilian elections at all, but I did take interest in the news and social media coverage afterwards. All the news outlets referred to Bolsanaro as “far-right”, a “fascist”, a “populist”,...
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St Mary’s University in Twickenham, London, has announced that they will no longer provide applicants with unconditional offers, a move commended by Universities Minister Sam Gyimah.
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No, I didn’t do any of my recommended summer reading, nor did I learn the suggested vocab list. However, my ‘gap yah’ wasn’t all just party-hostels either. I ended up working at an international school in Malaysia. 6,584 miles away from my family, I started my first ever serious job,...
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Last week, Phillip Hammond announced his third Budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer. This article looks at some of the key points from his speech, and provides a helpful breakdown of those relevant to current university students. The world of work Many current finalists are starting to consider their career...
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Talking about the release of his first feature film Lion, director Garth Davis once said, “filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me”. Lion tells the story of an Indian boy adopted by a wealthy Australian couple, who sets out to find his real family after twenty-five...
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Our 'Doctor Who' series reviews blog continues as Rory McNeill reviews 'The Tsuranga Conundrum' in which the Doctor and friends face an unusual monster on a spaceship
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Alpana Sajip reviews English Touring Theatre's Othello at the Arts Centre, starring Victor Oshin.
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Remember the days when ‘BTS’ stood for ‘back to school’? Now, the word is associated with the seven-membered wonder of the world: Korean boyband, formally known as the ‘Bantang Boys’. Like an epidemic, the band are permeating into Western culture after over five years in the making, bringing sweat and...
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‘Fika’ is the Swedish word for workplace coffee breaks with colleagues. For Scandinavians, coffee is symbolic of relaxation and compliments the congenial company of colleagues. For the frantic financial analyst, the Venti-10-shots-skimmed-milk Americano comes with a side of eyebags and deadline anxieties. Even so, coffee is just one of the...
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Superhero shows have always stood out to me, a hero complex is something many of us can relate to in one way or another, and this is epitomised in the Kryptonian that is Clark Kent in Smallville. Whilst his fight against evil and against his nemesis Lex Luthor are important...
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I have, since the age of six, always wanted to set up my own secret underground club. The problem in realising this dream, for me personally, has been that I do not have a lot of secrets. I am not rich enough or privileged enough to be in one of...
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Anxiety has been a constant companion throughout my life and I struggle to recall a time when I wasn’t weighed down by its presence. Although everyone’s experience differs,I typically relate mine as an intense homesickness even when at home. Like most things, my anxiety comes in waves; sometimes a splash,...
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