Written by Cassie Walker – Student Writer Second semester is a vital point in the academic year: You should feel more comfortable and settled in your new city and course and hopefully established strong friendships. It is also a perfect opportunity to start thinking about where you want to live for the second year. Therefore, […]
Written by Anouska Levart – Senior Features Editor Spreading mental health awareness will hopefully ensure more support is provided for those who are suffering, but there is still a long way to go. Oli Regan, an actor, director and mental health ambassador, was forced to spend an uncomfortable night in a police cell and made […]
Written by Julia Kajdi – Student Writer I know that everybody says and thinks that your Uni years are gonna be the best ones in your life. And if you decide to study abroad that is just even better. Finally getting totally independent, meeting new people, experiencing more modern or open minded educational systems and […]
Written by Anouska Levart – Senior Features Editor Amelia Hartley went bald to raise money for both CALM, dedicated to preventing male suicide, and Student Minds, a student mental health charity. For her, “If I can lay my head bare, then I can lay my emotions bare too,”. Depression and anxiety have affected Amelia’s school […]
Written by Anouska Levart – Senior Features Editor What’s your favourite season, someone would ask. It would be a toss-up between summer and winter: sun and sea or snow and Santa. Now, the decision is not even questionable. That arctic breeze hits you mid-November and by the time its January you’re used to being permanently […]
A film made by graduates of the BA Film Production course has scooped an international prize. A Place for Everything won Best Student Film at The Crystal Palace International Film Festival 2017 (CPIFF). The festival shows only the highest quality independent films, so the award is a stamp of recognition for the film, by four […]
A film about a son’s experience of his father’s depression has won the student prize at the Cornwall Film Festival Short Film Competition. The film, Bulldoze, uses puppets to explore what it feels like to be leaving home and leaving behind a parent who is suffering with the illness. Student filmmaker, Jake Earwaker, is in his third […]
Long gone are the days of going to a record store to check out your favourite band’s new album, or listening to the radio, hoping to hear that new single again. Music streaming services have all but taken over in the past few years, and it doesn’t look like they’re going anywhere soon. The biggest […]
Written by Edward Jones – Student Pages Sub Editor We’ve all grown up to idolise the university lifestyle – many of us also to dread it at the same time – through movies like American Pie, The Social Network and The Inbetweeners, but how does the cinematic depiction of student life compare to the reality? […]
Written by William Kowanec – Student Writer Rating: 3.5/5 What I liked about this book were the twists and turns which are delivered thick and fast making The Couple Next Door (2017) a captivating read. It reads like a film, slowly giving away different elements of the story making the reader second guess the characters and the […]