Posts Tagged ‘Students’

Pupils from two schools in Kent were among the winning team of a nation-wide engineering competition which sees engineers and school children travel to the French Alps for an educational ski trip. The annual event, ICE & SNOW, is organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and combines skiing with civil engineering. Although it sounds...  Read more

Students from the University of Greenwich will be encouraging the academic community to stop worrying and consider a range of activities to manage tension, as a way of marking National Stress Awareness Day  Read more  [Read more...]

Up and coming designers have added their talents to a campaign to re-think the traditional bucket-and-spade image of Kent’s seaside towns in a bid to attract fresh visitors. The second year undergraduates studying Design, Branding and Marketing at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester are staging an exhibition  Read more  [Read more...]

Sixteen of East Kent’s top young science students have been working with leading Pfizer scientists to solve a series of scientific challenges during Pfizer’s 11th annual Biology Project Week  Read more  [Read more...]

It has been announced that all students who are applying to a leading university will have to sit an entrance exam because A-levels are too easy. The Imperial College in London will require all sixth-formers to take an aptitude test to select the best candidates from the record number of pupils leaving school and college with straight As.  Read...  Read more

Graduation Students have been asked not to throw their mortar board in the air in case they hurt someone. Its said that bosses at a university want to stop the age-old tradition of gleefully hurling their Mortar Board in the air on graduation day because they have said that someone could be “blinded or even worse” if one of the flat topped...  Read more