After some bumpy teenage years including an ongoing anxiety battle, starting university in 2016 was the chance for a fresh start. Indeed, my first and second year were incredibly enjoyable. Learning new things, discovering new places, meeting new people. The next chapter of life felt like it was getting started. Career dreams were beginning to […]
The number of under-21s being recruited by criminals to launder money has more than tripled in the past three years according to new figures from Barclays, with university students being actively targeted by criminals as they start the new academic year. Cash-strapped students are key targets for fraudsters, with 30 per cent of all money […]
Incoming students often have high expectations for their first-year experience, partly down to the glamorisation of student life. What more important part of university is there than the infamous social life? Well, apart from the actual degree of course. Coming from a relatively small town where the cultural epicentre was a Nando’s on the high […]
Erin Bullions, Team Leader at Bulb offers her top ten tips on how to talk to your housemate about being more eco-friendly and the changes you can make at home together: 1. A little goes a long way: Let your housemate know that making eco-friendly decisions is not as hard as it sounds and they don’t have to […]
Written by Chloe Bayliss – Student Writer By now we all know about how going to university this year is not going to be the same as it normally would be. With the situation changing daily, it is becoming harder to look forward to something that I fear will inevitably be part of my downfall. […]
University students always seem to be an overlooked demographic. This year’s A-level grades fiasco, alongside the use of the discriminatory algorithm, has rightly been at the forefront of the news. However, for all those in education during this pandemic, it’s once again university students who have had the least representation. This year’s exam season has […]
Written by Ophir Barak “What we remember as a society derives in the end from the kind of society we are and reflects the kind of society we want to be”. These are the words of eminent historian, Richard Evans, whom in a recent article entitled “the history wars”, discusses the distinction between history and […]
Fiction writing is universally defined as that which describes imaginary events and people, but often what makes a work of fiction so powerful is the way that it is rooted in our own understandings of reality. Therefore, the question must be asked as to whether there is always some underlying truth to storytelling, no matter […]
When I started university back in September 2018, I never thought I would experience anything like this. The coronavirus pandemic has affected our everyday lives like never before – with the education sector being decimated and the virus majorly disrupting crucial assignments. As a journalism student at the University for the Creative Arts, I have […]
Lockdown hasn’t been easy on anyone. I can say with some confidence that I don’t think anyone has enjoyed it: stuck indoors doing your studies, no freedom to go out drinking, see any course mates, or anything really. Locked in with the same difficult housemates day after day, I feel as though I’ve been in […]