• Considering A Career In Social Work? Top 5 Reasons To Go For It

    Frontline is a children social work charity that recruits and develops outstanding individuals to become the next generation of social workers. Frontline has just been voted number 26 on the Times top 100 graduate employers. Social work can often be overlooked as a career option for graduates but here’s...
  • Food Shopping: the Student Guide

    Being an adult is hard enough as it is, and food shopping can be one of the serious challenges to get the hang of. Fitting everything in your basket, using actual maths to figure out if your mum would consider that can of beans to be a bargain, and...
  • Stress getting to university students

    According to a report from NatWest’s Student Living Index 2017, students are dealing with a great deal of stress as university students. The report states that 61% of university students rate the stress of studying for their degree a 7/10, while 45% consider the stress of managing their finances...
  • Uni student diets: saving the planet, your money or your conscience?

    Most teenagers tend to adopt the same diet as their parents when living at home due to convenience and upbringing. However, when these teenagers head off to university they are confronted with a new mix of housemates and differing diets. This, along with their discovery of the price of...
  • Part-time jobs: Money-maker or exam de-railer?

    In first and second year, I must admit that I played a particularly dangerous game with my finances, skirting the boundaries of my overdraft limit, trying to survive on the money I had accumulated over summer. The constant worry of waking up on a Thursday or Saturday morning and...
  • Let’s Articulate #17: Are Books Better From Bookstores Or Charity Shops?

    Book lovers, which do you prefer: old battered charity shop books or the classic clean nice-smelling Waterstones editions? Impact Arts goes head to head to debate this crucial issue in any bookworm’s life! In the red corner: Emma Pallen – New books are better! While I will admit second...
  • Fraser Collingham: “What do we want our money spent on?”

    Our university is currently facing a great deal of criticism from its students in response to its financial decisions. Each year, the University of Nottingham makes a profit over £20m. Last year, it made £25m. The year before it was the same. It seeks to increase this to at...