Student Life

‘Hurry up and employ a teenager while they still know everything’ the bumper sticker said. However, many of today’s teenagers leave school with low literacy and numeracy levels. Currently, there are well over one million 16 to 24 year olds out of work and a distressing percentage are unemployable. The TV show, ‘Young, Dumb and Living with Mum’ highlighted this very fact. School years had been wasted. In Britain 17 million adults cannot do basic maths and have only the ability of an 11 year old. Richard Humphries, chairman of National Numeracy and also the former chief of the UK Commission...

The Student Room, the largest online student community in the world, which receives around 5.5 million unique visitors a month, launched a design update at the beginning of October as part of a brand refresh for the UK’s largest online student community. Among the elements unveiled are a new logo and a new strap line ‘where students connect’. This is accompanied on the website by a clearer and more user-friendly navigation bar.

Jamie O’Connell, Marketing Director at The Student Room, said: “Over the past few years we’ve grown from an idea in a student’s bedroom to become the...

Students at Exeter College celebrated National Poetry Day with a range of events, including a visit from performance poet Matt Harvey.

Over 130 students packed the college's Theatre at the Centre for Creative Industries on Queen Street as Mr Harvey entertained them with anecdotes and poetry.

He shared with them some of his published work from his recent anthologies "Where earwigs dare" and "The hole in the sum of my parts". Students also had an opportunity to ask him questions about his career, inspirations and techniques.

Mr Harvey, who regularly features on Radio...

The archive of a West Country author, Ronald Duncan, who lived in north Devon all his writing life, has been acquired by the University of Exeter. Its arrival will be celebrated by a special display at Exeter library during this year’s Poetry festival on 5 October.

The collection is a record of the life of Ronald Duncan who came to Welcombe in the 1930s and lived and farmed breeding pigs and horses until his death in 1982. He was a wartime pacifist who travelled to visit Gandhi in India in 1937 aged only 22. While there he met the mystic Rabindranath Tagore. Duncan wrote...