As their company values surge towards USD$1 trillion many of the world’s largest tech firms are seeing profits grow at rates well into the double digits. Such rapid growth is extraordinary and anybody with a background in finance or economics will tell you that you’d expect to see the amount...
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Published over thirty years ago, Margaret Atwood’s novel about women’s rights in a collapsed western society appears to be more relevant than ever before. In the era of Donald Trump, anti-abortion arguments and the #MeToo movement surrounding female sexual assault by those in positions of power, The Handmaid’s Tale seems...
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Sixty former nursing students have demanded compensation from the Christian University of Thailand located in the Nakhon Pathom province for its uncertified course. The students have filed a lawsuit with the Central Administrative Court demanding 300,000 to 480,000 baht in compensation. The university is said to have admitted 360 students...
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The day after exams finished, I jetted off to Naples for three weeks of volunteering with LESS, an NGO that supports refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. Voluntourism often gets a bad name, and I too admit to being skeptical, worrying my work might have a negative impact. It is a...
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Rarely is an artist’s sound described so aptly by their genre as Beach House’s is by the term “dream pop”. Since their 2006 debut, the Baltimore duo have produced music that is light on obvious narrative direction and heavy on feeling; longing, nostalgia, melancholy and starry-eyed adoration, conveyed by Victoria...
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Universities – a topic of national interest – are now a constant feature in the papers. Most recently, universities minister and Conservative MP, Sam Gyimah, has triggered an interesting debate. Gyimah has been criticised for treating university degrees as commodities – products for sale – after introducing digital tools to...
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Manpreet Kaur reports on the finding of the neural link between depression and sleep problems.
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UCAS (The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) has apologised to thousands of students after sending an erroneous email confirming their acceptance to study at Newcastle University. Sent to over 4,000 students who are yet to receive their A-Level results, the email, which was promoting Fusion Student Housing, stated: “You have...
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Imagine you’re at karaoke. Be it that you’re there alone, with friends, with a partner, imagine you’re sitting there, a drink halfway to your lips, when suddenly, you hear the opening chords to ‘Don’t Stop Believing’. Suddenly, the whole vibe changes. Everyone in the bar knows the words, and all...
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Amid recent announcements regarding the expanded eligibility for blue badges to those with conditions such as severe mental health problems, autism or dementia, there has been considerable backlash on social media, from both disabled and non-disabled communities. The blue badge scheme allows disabled drivers and passengers to park closer...
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The University of Warwick found itself in joint fifty-first position, according to Times Higher Education, with a student satisfaction rate of 85%, alongside Durham University, the University of Liverpool and the University of York, among others.
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Students at Manchester university have painted over Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ and replaced it with ‘Rise’ by Maya Angelou. The offending poem was painted onto a wall of the university’s Students’ Union as part of recent renovations and was subsequently criticised by a group of students given Kipling has also...
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Kirstie Shearman reports on the landmark trial, sponsored by the University of Warwick, which reveals that adrenaline increases survival rates after cardiac arrests, but potentially at the cost of severe brain damage.
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