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Nine Proven Tips to Win More Public Testimonials
1. Pitch the story as a collaboration: I've found when you ask a client for a case study, it's them doing you a favour. But if you're saying, let's show the great work we've done together, it makes the person you're interviewing and their company look good too. This is similar to Chris Meyer's point recently on putting the customer, not the product, front and centre: " Make your customer the hero and your product the wise mentor. " 2.
Why is Cambridge hosting academics who say paedophilia is 'normal and natural'?
One speaker said ‘the majority of men are probably paedophiles’ and another said it was ‘natural and normal’ Top unis are under fire for hosting paedophile apologists who claim being sexually attracted to children is “normal and natural”. Cambridge hosted a summer conference where influential academics from various universities aired controversial views about child sex.
Our first reaction to tube suicides shouldn't be calling the victims selfish
Three people died on the Underground after New Year’s Eve – and I saw one of them In the first nine hours of 2016 three people died on the Underground. One of them, at around 3:20am, was a young woman in her 20s at Clapham North station in South London, where I stood about 15 feet away. She was wearing a red dress, with a black bag across her body and black shoes. She had dark hair. To my left, she looked like anyone coming home from a house party – from celebrating New Year’s Eve.
The NUS has had better weeks, but I promise we're changing
Richard Brooks is the Vice President of the NUS, in charge of Union Development. He formally backed Megan Dunn, who lost to Malia Bouattia in the NUS Presidential elections last week. He wrote this for The Tab on why students shouldn’t vote to disaffiliate, after a Tab poll revealed nearly 75 per cent of students want to leave. The NUS has had better weeks. Yes, I would have preferred a different result from our elections. Yes, there are legitimate concerns still to be answered.
Some Bristol students claim they got hold of Quaaludes
A house of free-wheeling Bristol students say they managed to buy Quaaludes, the notorious drug made famous by The Wolf of Wall Street. A second year told The Tab he bought 50 of the banned blue pills for £95 from a local dealer who said they were Ludes imported from South Africa. This photo was taken by a Bristol student who got a hold of the pills He told The Tab: “My friend managed to buy them off his dealer after a lecture.
The number of suicides at British universities before anyone started to notice
The Telegraph has been asking their readers a question lately? It’s rhetorical, but they can’t say for sure because they don’t want to worry everyone too much. They want to know “Do British universities have a suicide problem?” Through The Tab’s ongoing investigation into mental health at university, figures show there were 134 suicides in 2015, up from 130 in 2014 – a massive rise of 30 from 2013.
Revealed: The universities who take the most ketamine
Once available for just £20 a gram and almost as popular as MDMA, ketamine left us. The famous drought of 2014 was crippling, but the class B drug made its way back. Sure, it’s dirtier, a bit weirder and definitely not as much fun, but when has that ever stopped you? It certainly hasn’t stopped the dungeons of Fallowfield from getting ketty. Manchester students are by far the biggest ketamine users in the country.
Private school students are going to get empathy lessons because they're all 'charmless'
Privately educated people are so “bullish and charmless” that fee paying schools are introducing empathy lessons to help them better understand the world. To combat the “negative influence of technology”, the head of King’s College School in Wimbledon is introducing empathy lessons. Andrew Halls runs the £20,000-a-year school and thinks children are becoming less able to feel the way that other people are feeling.
Revealed: Researchers have figured out the courses most likely to leave you unemployed
Get kids coding, they said. Technology is the future, they said. Go to uni and study Computer Science and build your own tech firm, they said. You’ll definitely get a job, they said. Well, they were wrong. Research has shown Computer Science students are the most likely to be left unemployed with six months of finishing university, with 9.4 per cent of grads not in further study or in a job.
Researchers have worked out which degree works the hardest
They’ve been saying it for years. Well, more they’ve been moaning about it for years, disappearing for hours on end in their ‘studio’ and taking selfies every day to show hard it really is because you don’t understand. According to data analysts at the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), Architects are officially the hardest working students on campus.
Watch the video of a Cambridge Tory burning money in front of a homeless man
This is the video of Cambridge fresher Ronald Coyne burning a £20 note in front of a homeless man in the early hours of February 2nd. The Pembroke College student is set to be disciplined by the university amid calls for him to be kicked out. The video was passed to The Tab by a Cambridge student. The video shows Ronald Coyne attempting to set fire to the note, and failing. The video pans to the homeless man with another bystander.
Revealed: Which uni takes the most drugs
Russell Groups have been at the top of league tables for too long. The one that really matters is here, and former polytechnics have ruined the status quo. It’s not graduate prospects, it’s not even how hard you work – it’s how much you take drugs from The Tab’s drug survey of 11,000 students across the country. UWE continue their annual rise to narcos glory, where 92 per cent of students said they had taken drugs.
Named: The first year Cambridge student who allegedly burnt money in front of a homeless man
Cambridge’s Conservative Association have today named a fresher who was filmed deliberately burning money in the vicinity of a homeless person as Ronald Coyne. A student wearing white tie was filmed in the early hours of February 2nd in the middle of Cambridge after a formal. In the video, he struggles to light the note, then it pans to a homeless person. The video then cuts out. Ronald Coyne is a fresher at Pembroke college studying Law.
Oxford college sends out security email about this man to all students, even though he was just visiting a friend
Harris Manchester College sent CCTV of a graduate walking through college and warned students to “remain vigilant” as he might be a danger to their “wonderful and safe environment”. Femi Nylander, an activist for the Rhodes Must Fall movement who has previously protested against the colonialist origins of All Souls College, was collecting keys from a friend in the college on Friday morning when the college raised his behaviour as suspicious.
It's time for universities to stop sweeping suicide under the carpet
This week saw the fourth death at Bristol in four months of a student believed to have committed suicide. Lara Nosiru, a 23-year-old Neuroscience student, was found near the Clifton suspension bridge near Avon Gorge. Daniel Green. Kim Long. Miranda Williams. Four deaths in four months. Saher Ahmad, Daniel Pinfold, Christopher Walsh and Azusa Nose all at York. Lauren McQuaid at Cardiff. Andrew Stoney at Manchester. Luigi Trenti-Paroli and Christopher Harr at Oxford. Niall Paraskos at Northumbria.
Thousands of students across the UK march against Trump
In a series of emergency demos, thousands of students turned out against Trump’s proposed state visit to the UK last night. Stretching from Scotland to the South coast, people held signs calling Theresa May spineless and accusing the Prime Minister of condoning the new President’s ban. Placards were brandished calling Trump a nazi and a sexist, telling him to “get tae fuck” and to “keep his tiny hands away from our democracy”.
Antisemitism should be treated the same way as any other type of racism
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This evening we mark Yom HaShoah, the day in which Jewish people commemorate the holocaust. For many Jewish students it is a time to reflect on the family we never met, the family members that survived, and the collective numbers of people who perished at the hands of the Nazis.
By Duncan Claber, Emily Willson, Tegan Marlow, Livi Brooks- McLaughlin, Bobby Palmer Verified, Tom Jenkin, Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Morwenna Jones, Roisin Lanigan, Toby Susman
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Glasgow opens Scotland's first cereal café
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Ruth Munro, Glasgow Head of Marketing of The Tab Black Vanilla, located on Duke Street, opened on Monday and is offering its customers over 50 British and American cereal brands to choose from. The good news doesn’t stop there, guys – Black Vanilla’s menu also offers some amazing desserts, too. You can get waffles, crêpes, cheesecakes, over 20 different flavours of ice cream and a range of jaw-dropping milkshakes.
By Ruth Munro, Megan Dye, Livi Brooks- McLaughlin, Bobby Palmer Verified, Tom Jenkin, Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Morwenna Jones, Roisin Lanigan, Jenna Macfarlane Verified
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We want to hear your best Ricky Road stories
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In honour of the sadly imminent destruction of the infamous Richardson Road halls at the end of this year, The Tab will be featuring a ‘Ricky Road Week’ as an ode to our favourite, fun-filled dump. As a place of true character, Ricky has seen some unbelievable parties, pranks and general mischief since its construction back in the Seventies. We want to tell the most classic tales from all the crazy goings-on inside the ghastly green interiors that have occurred over the years.
By Olly Clink, Bobby Palmer Verified, Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Tom Jenkin, Callum McCulloch, Holly Bardell, Elliot Lewis, Meg Davies
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Louis Theroux's latest documentary reiterates why he's the best filmmaker in the world
His latest documentary, Drinking to Oblivion, is about alcoholism, and was shot mainly at King’s College Hospital in south London. Theroux follows three alcoholics: Aurelie, a Parisian who lives in Brixton and whose liver is rapidly deteriorating, Joe Walker, a 32-year old who relapsed into alcoholism after losing his girlfriend and job, and who appears in A&E bloodied, bruised and unable to walk, and Peter, a South African man who relapsed after the death of his father.
Some NUS delegates think it's wrong to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day
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Today, on Adolf Hitler’s 127th birthday, the National Union of Students (NUS) conference heard arguments against the official commemoration of the Holocaust. A seemingly uncontroversial amendment to a motion combating anti-Semitism on campuses argued that “education is vital” and the NUS should coordinate events on Holocaust Memorial Day. But some of the delegates present weren’t happy.
By Will Lloyd Verified, Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Tom Jenkin, Bobby Palmer Verified, Emili Stevenson, Paddy Baker
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Harry Potter and the quarter-life crisis
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Sometimes, fiction seems more real than reality. Certainly, for a whole generation of 20-somethings, Harry Potter was as real as our own childhoods. We imagine them as friends, we imagine them as adults, and we have furious opinions about whether or not Ron and Hermione ought to have ended up together. J K Rowling has kiboshed rumours that she will publish another novel, although this summer there will be a new play featuring a 37-year-old Harry.
By Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Jack Cummings, Craig O'Callaghan, Will Lloyd Verified, Roisin Lanigan, Joshi Herrmann Verified, Tom Jenkin
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North London is the best
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When I tell people I live in north London, they assume many things. Firstly, many assume that I live with my parents. Because north London has a reputation. It is ‘frumpy’, and populated ‘exclusively’ by the middle-aged, middle-class: plastic lefties who rail against private education but buy up expensive homes near high quality state schools – and some other things you’ve read liberal writers rail against in broadsheet newspapers.
By Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Jack Cummings, Lauren Raine, Callum McCulloch, Will Lloyd Verified, Craig O'Callaghan, Bob Palmer, Tom Jenkin, James Slonina
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Tim Peake's supporting the England rugby team from space
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Ahead of this afternoon’s match at Murrayfield, the England Rugby Twitter account shared a video beamed down from the International Space Station: the astronaut is wearing England colours and flanked by space suits. It’s the most interesting thing to happen to the team since it failed to progress beyond the group stage of the world cup it hosted last summer.
By David Knowles Verified, Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Will Lloyd Verified, Tom Jenkin, Jack Cummings
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We asked a sleep expert how to have the perfect nap
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Going for a nap is a lottery. You either waking feeling revitalised, or as if you’ve gone five rounds with Conor McGregor in a washing machine. Perhaps you prepare for a night out with a 5pm snooze; perhaps you find that Netflix is soporific; but if you do it wrong, you’ll have to throw out the rest of the day (and risk Sunday night insomnia). We asked leading sleep expert Dr Neil Stanley, former Director of Sleep Research at the University of Sussex, to put the rumours to bed.
By Ben Clarke, David Knowles Verified, Charlie Bayliss, Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Will Lloyd Verified, Tom Jenkin, Jack Cummings
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Beyonce has a new video
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You spent Saturday evenings in your early teens cruising music channels. You were too young to go out; too old to go to bed without feeling slightly uncool. And thus the caution, “parental advisory: explicit lyrics”, broadcast before a video started, delivered a thrill that vindicated you. You felt wild, you feel dangerous. Now, of course, you are desensitised to the explicit and violent. You get your kicks elsewhere; it takes more to get you talking.
By Phoebe Luckhurst Verified, Charlie Bayliss, David Knowles Verified, Will Lloyd Verified, Ben Clarke, Tom Jenkin, Jack Cummings
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#RIPTwitter
Seeing that Twitter is trending on Twitter is jarring. It’s as jarring as that sentence; it is as jarring as when the BBC must report on the on BBC. It’s as jarring as the word jarring. So: this morning, #RIPTwitter was trending on Twitter. Obviously, the social network is very much alive: indeed, it is febrile with the anger of thousands of Twitter users complaining about alleged plans to restructure your timeline according to an algorithm.
All the things you learn when you work at McDonald's
When I was 16, fearing I would not be able to afford to get the bus to the park to sit near – though not next to – some boys, I dutifully dispatched a CV (or, an A4 page on which was printed my mobile number and “Bronze DoE Award”), and got a job at McDonald’s. The branch was situated in a retail park in one of Glasgow’s rougher quarters. I had a stupid accent (a mongrel form of RP and Glaswegian, that came out inexplicably transatlantic); I was gauche and uncomfortable.
Sir Terry Wogan, 77, dies after battle with cancer
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Sir Terry Wogan has died this morning, aged 77, following a “short but brave” battle with cancer, his family have said. Wogan began his career in his native Ireland where he worked for a host of radio and TV stations as a DJ and presenter before moving to Britain. He became an icon during a lengthy career with the BBC. He first on the Light Programme in September 1966 before going on to make a name for himself working on The Breakfast Show on Radio 2.
By Craig O'Callaghan, Tom Jenkin, Jack Cummings, Catherine Reid Verified, Charlie Bayliss, Will Lloyd Verified
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A model is telling the girlfriends of guys who send her dick pics
The unsolicited dick pic is a tired trope. Indeed, it is so tired that it is quite hard to conjure outrage. Instead, you feel a sort of detached, academic interest in the process: you wonder about the men who think it works; you wonder about the women on whom it does. You wonder if these men have friends, and if their friends know that they serially dispatch pictures of their genitals to strangers on the internet. But most of the time, you roll your eyes rather than wring your hands.
Revealed: The gender ratio at each university
King’s College London and Stirling have the biggest gender gap in the country – where almost two thirds of students are girls. Leeds, Oxford Brookes and UEA come second, with only 40 per cent boys. Sticking to the stereotype, Loughborough is male dominated with 63 per cent boys and just 37 per cent girls. New figures from the Higher Education Statistic Agency show the girl boy split at each university.
Top things to do this week
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On Monday 26th October, Welly Ball invite you to join them for their inaugural Charity Talk Evening, with guest speaker Dr Jen Jenkins from The Positive Group. The talk will be on ‘The Science of Sustainable Performance’, offering a compelling insight into maximizing performance in high pressure and stressful environments.
By Natasha Franks, Jack Cummings, Ben Clarke, Will Lloyd Verified, Tom Jenkin, Kathryn Nielsen, Bonnie Groves
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A comprehensive manual on becoming an EX4 basic betch
According to Wikipedia, the “basic bitch” is a slang term used to pejoratively describe girls who like mainstream culture or products. In America this normally applies to girls who drink pumpkin spiced lattes from Starbucks and listen to One Direction. Here at Exeter, the basic bitch takes on a whole new meaning. She’s mainstream but just a little bit edgy, she’s popular but just a little bit nerdy – she’s as posh as the cast of Made in Chelsea but she parties like she’s on Geordie Shore.
Banned Milo Yiannopoulos and Julie Bindel to debate in Durham
By Charles White, Durham Editor of The Tab on Newly formed Men’s Issues Awareness Society have invited Julie Bindel and Milo Yiannopulos to speak at Durham after they were banned from speaking at Manchester. Milo Yiannopulous is a controversial figure and recently held a two-person protest where he held a sign saying “Rape culture and Harry Potter: both fantasy.” For her part, Julie Bindel has angered many trans people and is part of the NUS’ policy of No Platform.
Meet the duck that grew up in a second year apartment - and became a UVA celebrity
Plenty of UVA students get pets when they live off-Grounds. On any given trip to Mad Bowl you are guaranteed to see at least two puppies. But not many can match second year Scott Carpenter – whose epic tale of rearing a duckling with his roommates will be the most inspiring thing you read this weekend. It began this summer, while Scott was back home in Maryland, searching for apartment furniture at his local flea market.
The jumping girls of A-level results: Where are they now?
For one cringe day every single year the front pages of newspapers are adorned with smiling girls jumping and waving their record shattering A-level results. Pictured beside headlines such as “Beautiful girls got their A-level results… but where are all the boys?” their futures all looked bright and shiny. From there they disappear into the three year uni void and are never heard of again, until now. Having safely landed, we tracked down the airborne girls from results days past.
We are destroying our copies of FIFA to protest against corruption
In a brave act of protest against world corruption, one fearless second year is boycotting FIFA by destroying their copies of the game. Valiant David Mant and pal Alex Sarama have turned their backs on the popular game FIFA 15 in the wake of the bribing scandal that’s rocked the footballing world. They plan on destroying all their copies of FIFA, past and present, and playing Pro Evolution Soccer instead.
I dropped out of Manchester and Cambridge but it’s honestly fine
I hate to brag, but, if I died in a heinous accident, someone would probably write it up. Like, people have heard of me. It would be news. In 2012, I told Forbes, who were really nice to name me “digital media’s Citizen Kane” that year, that if you drop out of university you’d better go on to real success in your own right, or it doesn’t say great things about you. Luckily for me, I did.
If you live in the North, you're paying over the odds for your house
Shafted students at northern unis are being charged way more rent than locals, according to new research. Some in the midlands are paying almost 36 per cent more than workers and families living next door. But down south students in Reading are shelling out almost 40 per cent less than their local counterparts – paying on average £80.78 a week instead of £132.75 in the same area.
Whining about New Year's Eve won't get you anywhere
New Year’s Eve is rubbish and we all know it, so stop moaning about it. If you want to bring in 2015 without linking arms with your Gran and singing Auld Lang Syne you only have to wait. Be patient, go out the next day, write the second of the month off as you would the first. It’s the second night of a holiday vibe, right when everyone has settled in and only slightly recovered from the night before. When, still excited by the prospect of going at it again, caution is thrown to the wind.
Liverpool student speaks of his terrifying encounter with psychedelic drug ‘25I-NBOMe’
A Liverpool student said he attempted suicide to escape a terrifying trip he experienced after taking the legal high 251-NBOMe – and now he tells The Tab about his terrifying ordeal.
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