National Student Survey 2010

January saw the launch of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2010 at most universities and colleges across the UK. Entering its sixth year, the NSS is a census of students in the final year of a course leading to undergraduate credits or qualifications across the UK. It is your opportunity to give your opinions on [...]

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Water Aid – It should be child’s play

Without safe, clean water and adequate sanitation, around 4,000 children die every day. With these basic rights, diseases are drastically reduced, children can go to school and adults can earn a living. If you’d like to take action and help to facilitate access to safe clean water and sanitation, visit the WaterAid website now and send [...]

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Robin Hood and his Band of Merry Men!

Helping to negate some of the negatives of financial globalisation and in turn create a fairer more balanced world is the idea of the ‘Robin Hood Tax’. The idea is to tax all banking transactions (not involving members of the Public) by 0.05 per cent with the resulting revenue being used to tackle poverty, climate [...]

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Is Geography the New History?

Geography is most definitely shedding is corduroy jacket and trousers and slipping into something far more fashionable, well jeans and a t-shirt is a start! If ever there was a time when there was a need to better understand the world around us, now is most definitely the time. Helping to fashion those much needed [...]

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For the Love of Water!

Flow: For the Love of Water’ is a great documentary that tackles the thorny issue of water privatisation. It avoids the pitfalls of solely criticising, which is the easy thing to do, and also explores a series of ideas designed to facilitate increased access to water services. Want to know more: http://www.flowthefilm.com

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