A report by the Sutton Trust – an educational charity which aims to improve social mobility and address educational disadvantage- revealed that most leading journalists went to private schools and that this disparity has been steadily increasing over last 10 years only. More than half of Britain’s top 100 journalists were […]

With the world moving towards becoming a global village and more and more organizations learning the benefits of working with a culturally diverse workforce, does knowing how to speak English still hold as much value? Apparently, Yes, says a recent report on Challenges and Successes in Multicultural Corporate Communication, published […]

The word ‘tsunami’ means ‘harbor wave’ in Japanese (tsu = harbor + nami = wave), reflecting Japan’s tsunami-prone history. Usually caused by earthquakes tsunamis of this nature have been known to reach heights of over 100 ft and travel at speeds of up to 500 miles per hour – almost as […]

Teaching – a sector increasingly lacking in power. Tales of pupil-on-teacher bullying is on the rise, discipline is lax and the idea of teachers going on strike produces a sneer from the media that can be seen from space. According to business website LKMco, “People in the UK are more […]

Troubled Russian-Polish relations require humane ways to solve them, such as direct and constructive dialogue that allows people from both countries to hear and listen to each other, said guests of the Russian-Polish youth forum hosted in Moscow and Russia on December 13-17, 2014. The Polish guests and the Russian […]

Long gone are the days in which we expect student events coverage to be exclusively comprised of budget club nights. Here are the best of cultural events for students in early 2015. I like to think that we’ve all moved past that. Students – and those at the top London […]

When I was growing up my musical education was based on the Golden Era of Hip Hop. My ears were dominated by such lumnaries as Biggie Smalls, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, NWA, Cypress Hill, De La Soul, The Gang Starr Foundation, The Likwit Crew…. I could go on. Yet […]

It’s a little over four months to the 2015 British General Election (May 7).This one promises to be crucial and more fluid than any election in living memory. Ever since the failure of the international banking system in 2008, millions of people have been pushed further into poverty by neo-liberal […]