students

Introducing a new addition to the Travel Section here at Impact: Home Run. Discover the amazingly diverse cities and hometowns of UoN students, get inspired to travel a little further out and add your own beloved home to the series. Last summer, my French best friend came to visit me...

Homelessness in the UK has risen 54% in the UK since 2010, and, according to the homeless charity Framework, rough sleeping in Nottingham has increased to its highest level in 20 years – hardly shocking to students who would have by now realised that it’s rare not to see...

Last night, the candidates running in this year’s Student Leader Elections took their campaigners and their banners to Ocean, the spiritual home of the Nottingham student. We went along too, but while they sported hand-painted signs on the balconies, we asked University of Nottingham (UoN) students what they think about the SU elections, whether...

With campaigning for the University of Nottingham Students’ Union (UoNSU) Student Leader Elections beginning in earnest this week, it would be easy to forget this year’s team still have around 5 months left in their roles. With just under half of their terms left to go, the current SU...

UK Essays are a Nottingham-based company that provide bespoke essays for students, near-enough guaranteeing them a desired grade. When I was approached about doing an interview with them, I must admit that I was all set to focus the interview solely around how such action could be considered anything...

There’s something disarming about the way Francesco Lari, chairman of UKIP’s Nottingham City Branch, half-seriously apologises for only having time to have a quick 10-minute chat before he needs to get back to work. “As you can see, I’m not a professional politician”. For any UKIP member, the student crowd...

The cost of living as a student, the cost of study for a student, and the total debt students come out of university with are all going up. They’ve been going up for years now. Housing prices have risen by nearly a quarter since 2009, according to NUS figures, the...