World’s earliest record of the F-word is discovered in manuscript written by bored Scottish student in 1568 locked away in the vault of the National Library of Scotland Earliest written use of the F-word dates back to a 500-year-old manuscript Uni student wrote the manuscript as plague locked down his Edinburgh home It was shown … Read more
Wuhan reports its first ‘imported case’: Chinese student, 16, who studies in the UK brings the coronavirus BACK to the former epicentre after flying home from Newcastle – despite showing NO symptoms The city last week declared that it had largely curbed the coronavirus outbreak Local health officials today reported the 16-year-old as its first … Read more
First invented in the 1980s by Chuck Hull, an engineer and physicist, 3D printing technology – also called additive manufacturing – is the process of making an object by depositing material, one layer at a time. Similarly to how an inkjet printer adds individual dots of ink to form an image, a 3D printer adds … Read more
Four men are executed over the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi that shocked the world Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all executed The four were hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in India’s capital on Friday Their deaths mark the first executions in the … Read more
A woman who was told she looked like she’d been ‘mauled by a gorilla’ because of her rare skin tearing condition has had the last laugh after being invited to model for Vogue Italia. Texas native Lucy Beall-Lott, a 21-year-old student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, has recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) … Read more
The Student Loans Company has a £28.5million pot of money belonging to university graduates which they can claim hundreds of pounds from. Between 2009-10 and 2017-18, the Government body in charge of student finance took £308million more in repayments than it should have, according to reports. While the SLC said it had contacted everyone due … Read more
An online steroid dealer who sold toxic ‘Russian Roulette’ slimming pills to a bulimic student was jailed for seven years today. Eloise Parry, 21, bought pills containing lethal DNP from Bernard Rebelo, 32, before collapsing dead on 12 April 2015. DNP was first used to manufacture explosives in the First World War and is not … Read more
The future of photography is in good hands. How can we be sure? Because the Sony World Photography Awards has just released the shortlisted images for its 2020 student and youth competitions – and they are quite something to behold. Student entrants, from higher education institutions across the world, were challenged to submit images that … Read more
Coronavirus hits Oxford University: Student tests positive for deadly bug after returning from overseas travel, confirms Public Health England The student is believed to have self-isolated as soon as they had symptoms Oxford University said there is a low risk to other staff and students there By Terri-ann Williams For Mailonline Published: 07:57 GMT, 8 … Read more
Drunk university student wakes up in Norwich rather than Newcastle after typing wrong postcode into his Uber app and falling asleep in back of the taxi – waking 260 miles away after five-hour trip with a £1,300 bill When the student woke up he was 250 miles off course and owed £1,307.64 He drunkenly put … Read more