http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sun, 26 May 2013 04:00:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/16/sheikh-drugs-and-rock-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-roll-muslim-anxieties-with-student-life/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/16/sheikh-drugs-and-rock-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-roll-muslim-anxieties-with-student-life/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:00:04 +0000 Hasnet Lais http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29168 As much as I tried to repress from memory a recent post in The Independent titled “Slut dropping' and 'Pimps and Hoes' - the sexual politics of freshers' week”, it rings true for some common Muslim anxieties with student life.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/16/sheikh-drugs-and-rock-%e2%80%98n%e2%80%99-roll-muslim-anxieties-with-student-life/feed/ 61 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/09/graduate-unemplyoment-meningitis-behcets-and-me/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/09/graduate-unemplyoment-meningitis-behcets-and-me/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:46:21 +0000 Darius McQuaid http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28988 Last July I graduated from York University, a highly respected institution, after studying history. Despite this I have been unable to secure a job for a whole year now.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/09/graduate-unemplyoment-meningitis-behcets-and-me/feed/ 11 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/25/the-photography-blog-is-a-photography-degree-worth-the-paper-it%e2%80%99s-written-on/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/25/the-photography-blog-is-a-photography-degree-worth-the-paper-it%e2%80%99s-written-on/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:00:28 +0000 Alex Hare http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28638 The new academic year is almost upon us and as universities prepare to open their doors to the latest batch of students paying the highest fees in history for their education, we take a look at whether embarking on a photography degree is still a worthy option.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/25/the-photography-blog-is-a-photography-degree-worth-the-paper-it%e2%80%99s-written-on/feed/ 51 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/13/freshers%e2%80%99-inventory-2-more-essential-less-obvious-items/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/13/freshers%e2%80%99-inventory-2-more-essential-less-obvious-items/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:00:31 +0000 James Kendrick http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28237 With Freshers' week fast approaching you may be starting to get that familiar butterfly feeling in your stomach. Moving away from home for the first time can be a daunting prospect. Thanks to Sophie Warnes' Freshers’ Guide: What to take to university most of the boxes on the list are already checked. However, drawing on experience, there may be a few less obvious items which are missing from your SOS Student Survival Kit. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/13/freshers%e2%80%99-inventory-2-more-essential-less-obvious-items/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/05/28188/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/05/28188/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:50:38 +0000 Caroline Mortimer http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28188 This sort of rhetoric parroted every year by a generation laughably removed from the youth employment market is dangerously naive.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/05/28188/feed/ 107 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/28/the-tension-between-the-old-and-the-young/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/28/the-tension-between-the-old-and-the-young/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:00:52 +0000 Caroline Mortimer http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27847 Thousands of teenagers ran out of their schools and sixth form colleges clutching GCSE and A-Level results last week, many of them excited about what the future holds. But that future is rarely in their hands.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/28/the-tension-between-the-old-and-the-young/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/23/on-gcse-results-day-the-great-university-con-trick/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/23/on-gcse-results-day-the-great-university-con-trick/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:00:32 +0000 Susan Elkin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27700 At this time of year tens of thousands of excited young people are busy packing kettles and ironing boards ready for next term while others are desperately scrambling through Clearing in the hope that they might, just might, get a place to study something – anything – in a higher education institution a long way from home even if it’s only Horology with Romanian at the University of NeverHeardOfIt.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/23/on-gcse-results-day-the-great-university-con-trick/feed/ 36 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/23/my-zero-hour-contract-has-left-me-poor-this-summer-but-for-a-neet-it-would-be-much-worse/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/23/my-zero-hour-contract-has-left-me-poor-this-summer-but-for-a-neet-it-would-be-much-worse/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:45:32 +0000 Stephen Isaac-Wilson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27659 Since starting my university summer almost three months ago, I’ve had no more than 10 shifts at my retail job. This isn’t because I’m a seasoned jetsetter or that I’m ‘feckless’ or ‘work shy’; I just happen to be one of those mugs on a zero hour contract. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/23/my-zero-hour-contract-has-left-me-poor-this-summer-but-for-a-neet-it-would-be-much-worse/feed/ 21 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/16/why-were-quitting-the-sexy-a-levels-pictures-business/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/16/why-were-quitting-the-sexy-a-levels-pictures-business/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:48:00 +0000 Joseph Saunders and Tom Phillips http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27500 A-Level results day in the British press traditionally means two things: choruses of moaning about grade inflation and dumbing-down, and wall-to-wall pictures of attractive blonde girls jumping in the air.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/16/why-were-quitting-the-sexy-a-levels-pictures-business/feed/ 8 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/26/the-tale-of-the-8-9-why-i-left-the-education-system/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/26/the-tale-of-the-8-9-why-i-left-the-education-system/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:00:42 +0000 Callum Jones http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26607 Just under a year ago, I faced a pretty monumental decision. At the age of seventeen, I had to weigh up two contrasting options for my future. In September 2012, I could have chosen to remain within the stable borders of the conventional education system, but stack up a minimum £27,000 of debt. My alternative was to enter the world of work and search for a modest income, whilst youth unemployment soars.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/26/the-tale-of-the-8-9-why-i-left-the-education-system/feed/ 59 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/23/academic-research-shouldnt-be-made-freely-available-to-all/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/23/academic-research-shouldnt-be-made-freely-available-to-all/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 03:00:10 +0000 Stephen Caddick http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26506 David Willetts, the science minister, has spoken: the Government, in this Olympic year, is ‘going for gold’ – enabling everyone to access university research free of charge. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/23/academic-research-shouldnt-be-made-freely-available-to-all/feed/ 8 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/generation-y-are-suffering-from-the-recession-dont-tell-us-were-not/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/generation-y-are-suffering-from-the-recession-dont-tell-us-were-not/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:00:30 +0000 Caroline Mortimer http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26375 If some of the more hysterical right wing papers are to be believed there is only one type of young person; the angry, feckless yob that graces the front of the tabloids carrying various electronic goods looted from Argos. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/16/generation-y-are-suffering-from-the-recession-dont-tell-us-were-not/feed/ 48