Jack Thompson

2026 Boar Resolutions

Happy 2026! Allow your favourite student journalists to inspire you with our annual attempts at renewal – whether that's proper hydration, banishing doomscrolling, or perfecting the art of the Letterboxd review.
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Posted Jan. 1, 2026

Is it time to give up? The benefits and strategies of goal disengagement

Throughout our lives, we are taught to have goals. In fact, my secondary school’s motto was “Believe, Aspire, Achieve”, all centred around goals. It seems completely logical that having goals would only be beneficial, providing a sense of direction and acting as an objective in which our energy can be directed towards.   Interestingly, however, recent...
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Posted Dec. 30, 2025

Increasing financial pressures driving more students to live at home and reject typical ‘student experience’

Students are increasingly likely to be working part-time jobs during term-time and commuting to university, with growing financial pressures altering the typical ‘student experience’. The 2025 Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) found that 68% of full-time students now undertake paid employment during term-time – a 12-percentage point increase from 2024. This...
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Posted Jul. 18, 2025