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Throughout November, hundreds of women will participate in an event called ‘Reclaim The Night’, which took place in Nottingham on Saturday night. It is a women’s only march that aims to stand up to rape and street violence against women. The event has been in motion since the 70’s,...

There is an acute problem in the quality of our further education (FE) establishments. A third of those which provide ‘low cost’ degrees, costing £7,500 or less annually, have failed recent inspection by the Quality Assurance Agency.   The agency is yet to publish a report addressing why 14...

Students are a mere three years (if that) away from the world of employment. You may have fleetingly considered applying for a Spring Week in the City, or even grovelled for work experience; but have you thought about reproductive rights in the workplace? Maybe not. Earlier this month it was reported that Facebook and Apple have decided...

Tony Blair has recently called for religious respect lessons in education systems across the globe in order to tackle today’s ideologically driven wars, as well as to prevent religion-based violence in the future. This approach seems problematic for several reasons. Firstly, it’s debatable whether this mission is practically feasible....

Douglas Carswell MP, riding high on securing 60% of the vote in the recent Clacton-on-Sea by-election, has boldly claimed that UKIP has ‘nothing that we cannot achieve’. Echoing the sentiments of the famous medieval heretic John Wycliffe, ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people’, Carswell clearly...

A recent RSA think-tank study found that graduates should be given advice on jobs, housing and matches with local employment opportunities in a bid to stimulate local economies through local graduates. However, the study fails to account for the work already done by universities to provide local graduate opportunities,...

Last week, John Grisham, US author, lawyer and politician, made some, shall we say, controversial comments in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. He suggested that the punishments enforced on those convicted of watching child pornography are too strict and that the police should focus their attention on “real...