News - June, 2008

A pupil gained 7.5% in his English GCSE exam for answering ‘f**k off’, it has been reported.

A one-night stand leaves men feeling content but women feeling ‘used’, according to findings from Durham University.

Sheffield Hallam student Phil Bridge has created the world’s first cardboard bicycle.

Manchester is the takeaway capital of the UK, it has been found, ordering more takeaways per household than any other UK city.

Imperial College Union has voted by a wide margin to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students.

White boys from lower-income families are ‘significantly under-represented’ in higher education, according to research from the National Audit Office (NAO).

Doubts have been raised over the reliability of degree classifications, after the universities’ watchdog called the degree system ‘arbitrary’ and ‘rotten’.

Students who use social networking sites may be doing themselves an educational favour, a study suggests.

A ‘dark triad’ of personality traits makes men more successful with women, scientists have claimed.

Newcastle has been named by students to be the top town to live in while at university.

Students have an average of 1770 tracks on their MP3 players, half of which are unpaid for, a new survey has found.

Students at Oxford University will be working with actor Kevin Spacey from October, when the actor takes up a visiting professorship at St Catherine’s College.

An increasing number of students are unable to cope with the pressure of university life, academics from Oxford Brookes have claimed.

The number of people struggling to deal with numbers and maths is much higher than previously thought, according to a professor at University College London.

Rates of skin cancer are increasing among affluent young people, experts have warned.

Britain’s long hours culture is getting worse, with 3.3 million people now working more than 48 hours a week, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned.

The proportion of state school pupils at the top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, has fallen according to the latest figures.

Imperial College London will introduce its own entrance exams because it believes A-levels no longer identify the brightest students.

Facebook is facing fresh criticism for allegedly breaching privacy laws.

Student papers the Glasgow Guardian and Edinburgh Student have been recognised for journalistic excellence at the 12th Scottish Student Press Awards.