3 d. ago Scots student who feared not seeing another Christmas urges support to find cure

Joscelyne Kerr, 20, from Kinross, was diagnosed in 2023 with an ultra-rare and aggressive brain cancer, the first recorded case of its kind in Scotland.

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9 d. ago London university sued after expelling student who was impersonated on social media

London university sued after expelling student who was impersonated on social media  The Guardian

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9 d. ago University student faced quitting course after staff member sublet room she didn't own

'This has really, really messed up his final year off university because of absolutely no fault of his own'

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1 week ago Is your car telling you to SPEED? Electric and hybrid owners say onboard tech is instructing them to do 80mph in school areas

But online forums are full of owners complaining that the feature - which is standard on the £55,000 Mazda CX-60 and £37,000 Volvo XC40 (pictured) - has been misreading signs and setting off alarms

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2 w. ago An Indonesian teen suspected in mosque attack built bombs alone at home, police say

Authorities say an Indonesian student suspected in last week's bomb attack on a high school mosque had assembled small-scale explosive devices at home

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2 w. ago Surgeon allegedly sent picture of his private parts to student nurse

It is the latest in a series of controversies to have hit the university health board

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2 w. ago At least 54 people injured in explosions at Indonesian school mosque

Authorities say suspect is 17-year-old male student and warn against terrorist attack speculation after Jakarta blasts At least 54 people have been injured in explosions that shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Authorities later said the suspect was a 17-year-old male student who had been injured and was undergoing surgery.Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two loud blasts at about midday, just as the sermon had started, from inside and outside the mosque at SMA 72, a state high school within a navy compound in Jakarta’s northern Kelapa Gading neighbourhood. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Student left paralysed after breaking her neck in skydive sues for £15m saying medics should not have let her jump because she was depressed

Miriam Barker, now 29, claims she should not have been signed off to do the skydive at Southampton University because she was struggling with depression.

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2 w. ago Depressed student sues skydive firm for £15million after breaking her neck in parachute jump saying they should not have passed her fit

Miriam Barker, now 29, claims she should not have been signed off to do the skydive at Southampton University because she was struggling with depression.

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2 w. ago Student paralysed by skydiving accident sues for £15 million in compensation

Miriam Barker has a history of depression and claims she should never have been cleared to jump

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2 w. ago Great British Bake Off champion reveals surprising tactic they used to win show

EXCLUSIVE: Jasmine Mitchell has told how praying helped her deal with the pressure during her time in the Bake Off tent. The medical student needed God for support

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3 w. ago ‘‘I can quiz for 17 hours a day!’: how Émilien became Europe’s greatest ever gameshow winner

The 22-year-old history student spent almost two years on a popular French quiz show – becoming a multimillionaire in the process. He discusses the importance of curiosity, frugality and 10-11 hours sleep a nightBeing a TV general-knowledge quiz champion is a funny kind of fame, because random strangers want to test you on all sorts of trivia. “Sometimes I’ll be walking down the street, a car slows, the window goes down and someone screams: ‘Capital of Brunei?’ I answer and they drive off – it’s amusing really,” says Émilien, a 22-year-old history student who this summer became not only the most successful French gameshow contestant of all time, but the biggest gameshow winner in European history and the world record-holder for the most solo consecutive appearances on a TV quizshow.And everyone, of course, wants to know how he did it. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago If the right really wants free speech in universities, why is it so obsessed with discrediting students? | Jason Okundaye

Conservatives see these institutions as finishing schools for the next generation of leaders – and they won’t cede them to progressive ideasWhen I was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Cambridge University, I was plastered all over the national press for making a tweet about white people. It has not turned out to be a big deal for my life or career, but at the time it felt monumental: racist hate mail was sent to my college for months; the Conservative MP Bob Blackman called for my prosecution; and tabloid journalists turned up at my home and harassed my mother (it was August, a famously slow news month). I received a lot of support from the student population, alumni and the police (and none from the university, bar a few kind academics), but it cast a shadow over the rest of my time there – I worried about what future I could have or what employer would hire me if they were to Google my name and see I had attracted scandal. Mostly I wondered why this was national news.I found...

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3 w. ago Tech school student sues campus, saying toxic fumes from construction made her go into labor 16 weeks early

Several students and a math instructor at Ozarks Technical Community College also reported feeling sick from strong chemical fumes during campus construction, according to the lawsuit

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4 w. ago Tech school student sued campus, saying toxic fumes from construction made her go into labor 16 weeks early

Several students and a math instructor at Ozarks Technical Community College also reported feeling sick from strong chemical fumes during campus construction, according to the lawsuit

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