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Impact Features writer Lucy questions whether the government’s equality strategy is having any real effect… Widening participation is an initiative led by the UK government aimed at increasing the number of students from under-represented groups participating in higher education. It aims to do this by engaging these students in...

On Wednesday 27th April, Impact attended a debate held at University Park in which the matter of fossil fuel divestment was discussed. The event was hosted by The Environment & Social Justice Network (ESJN) of the University of Nottingham Students’ Union, in conjunction with the University and was chaired...

There are so many potential socials that you can take part in at university, but the most common seems to be some variant of going to a club. You go out, you get drunk, you get loose and you let everyone see your fun side (in theory, anyway) then...

The day that Tony Blair decided that 50% of young people should go to university seems a very long time ago now, but sadly it is still all too relevant.  ‘Sadly’ because the horrifying statistic that nearly 25% of all 21 year-olds who have a degree are unemployed just...

It is all disgustingly reminiscent of the squealing intimacy between a fictional Prime Minister and an alive pig on Charlie Brooker’s first episode of Black Mirror. But this morning, weary eyed commuters opened their Twitter feeds and thought they were still dreaming. David Cameron – allegedly – in his...

As University undergraduates we are stuck in a vicious cycle of making ourselves more appealing to potential future employers through extra-curricular activities and career path relatable work experience, and getting the grades for them to even consider our applications in the first place. How do you get around this...

On July 8th, Chancellor George Osborne announced the complexities of his Emergency Budget for 2015. Many changes were initiated within his long economic puzzle, including the introduction of a national living wage and the scrapping of student grants. From Clegg’s empty promises to freeze tuition fees to Osborne’s eradication...