According to a survey by Girlguiding UK and backed by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, Girls believe they have lost the freedom to do things on their own because parents being over-protective. In a survey of 1,000 girls aged between 10 and 18, almost half say they face too many restrictions.

The research also shows that, by concentrating on rare issues like stranger attack, worried parents may be ignoring real threats, such as online contacts or using a mobile phone while out at night.

The research indicated that fears over letting girls go out at night led to them spending more time on the internet at home. Almost half of the girls said they had seen things online which upset or frightened them. More than one in four had been bullied on the internet and a fifth had considered meeting someone they met online in real life, although a similar number said they had found people who were not who they said they were.

Almost all girls (95 per cent) believed carrying a mobile phone makes them safer, unaware of the risks of displaying valuables. Nearly 80 per cent of girls aged 16 to 18 listen to an iPod while walking alone at night. Girls think they face more restrictions than boys, who are more likely to be involved in violence or a fight.

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Second name of Student life is Parties. Alot of Parties. Parties make the funnest part of college life. So don’t miss out!! get the hints from the categories below and “party animal” nick for the rest of the student life is guaranteed!!

Here are the list of 10 Best Drinking Games for students….. If you know any other funny game please do let me and viewers know. Here you go with the fun…..

1 – Beer Pong

A test of drunken skill and aim. Perhaps the greatest drinking game ever invented???

How to play Beer Pong:
Keg Cups (usually 6 or 10) are partially filled with beer and set up in a diamond shape on each ends of the beer pong table. When a ping pong ball lands in an opposing players cup, that cup must be drank by the opposing player. The winner is the player with the most cups left.

2 – Flip Cup

A great drinking game for groups who are energetic and like doing something active. This game can get loud, as with most drinking games. But, the competitiveness this game brings is fun!

How to play Flip Cup Game:
“Its a team based drinking relay race. Two teams line up opposite of each other at a table. First person chugs their beer out of their keg cup. The next person can’t go until the person before them has drank all their beer and set their cup on the edge of the table and successfully “flipped it” until it has landed upright”.

3 – Quarters

Test your ability and accuracy by bouncing quarters off a table and into another’s drink. A great ice breaker…just go up to someone and say “drink” and slam a quarter on the table and sink it in their drink. Ok, not really, but a fun game to play at home or at the bar.

4 – Kings Cup

Another great drinking game for big groups. This card game is not only fun and entertaining…it’ll get you drunk!

How to play Kings Cup:
Place a beer on the table and cards face down in a circle around it. Who ever draws the 4th King has to chug the beer in the middle. Each card turned over before the 4th King has it’s own rule, giving many variations to the game.

5 – Presidents & Assholes (card game)

Which one are you? There are many different house variations of this game. The idea is to be the first to get rid of all your cards to become President. The person who finishes last in the round, is the Asshole.

6 – Bullshit (card game)

Call out your friends if they are BS’ing you. The point of this game is try to lie and try and get away with it. But, if your opponents call “Bullshit” and catch you lying, you have to drink.

7 – 3Man (Dice game)

A pretty simple dice game that will always get the “3-man” drunk. Time to bust out your dice rolling (craps) skills because every time you roll a “3″ the 3-man drinks.

8 – High or Low (card game)

Another one of those pointless drinking games where the idea is to get drunk. Grab a deck of cards and start turning over the cards one by one. You guess whether the next card will be higher or lower, and if you guess wrong you drink.

9 – Shotgun

A race to see who can drink the fastest. Something that is argued over between guys at every party you go to.

10 – Fuck the Dealer (card game)

The point of this game is to get the “dealer”…well, you know. Its a card guessing game that involves a lot of drinking.

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Abandoned pint glasses, overgrown gardens, heavily curtained windows and loud kerfuffles at the crack of dawn.

If housing minister Caroline Flint has her way, these hallmarks of undergraduate living could soon vanish to restore suburban order to student-saturated streets.


In some areas, students outnumber local residents. Belfast’s Queen’s University students inhabit more than half of houses in the immediate vicinity of the campus while around two-thirds of the 10,000 residents of Headingley, in Leeds, are students, all packed into 73 streets of terraced houses.

Town-gown relations are notoriously tense during term time in cities such as Leeds, Nottingham and Southampton.

The government’s plan is to halt the “studentification” of university towns by capping the number of houses in multiple occupation (HMO).

Flint wants councils to get together with universities to plan more purpose-built accommodation. She says her main concern is communities left as “ghost towns” when students desert them during the summer months.

But let’s not forget why these ghettos sprung up in the first place.

Thanks in part to the government’s ambitious target to get 50% of young people into higher education, the UK’s student population has swelled to 2.5 million.

Couple this with an average student debt of £17, 500 and you can’t blame students – and landlords for that matter – for searching out the cheapest, most convenient housing, however overcrowded or antisocial this may be for their neighbours.

Flint’s drive to “blend student populations into well-mixed neighbourhoods” seems a seriously delayed reaction to a problem that has been building up for years. And announcing her plans in the middle of a dip in the housing market is unlikely to get landlords on board with changes in legislation.

A spokesman for the housing charity Shelter said: “This seems to be a cheap dig at students, many of whom are forced to live in HMOs because it’s the only way they can afford to attend university.

“Students are often some of the most exploited people in the private rented sector, having to live in poor but expensive accommodation because it’s located near the college or university.

“If the government really wants to tackle the issue, it should be looking at the sector as a whole and not just blame students.”

And Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students, fears that “added bureaucracy will discourage landlords from the HMO market”.

The truth is that universities and clusters of their students bring in a substantial income to many towns and cities.

According to Universities UK, higher education institutions generate £45m each year, and for every 100 university employees, a further 99 jobs are created in the wider economy as a knock-on effect.

So, in theory, top marks to Flint for recognising that many UK university towns are swamped with students.

In practice though, with so many millions of young people in full-time higher education, the ghost-town problem is unlikely to disappear.

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Higher education in Britain is on the verge of a revolution – no, several revolutions. The pressures fueling these revolutions are many. By general agreement, the sector is grossly underfunded. In these very cash-limited times, it is unlikely this funding gap will be bridged by the taxpayer or employers. The money will have to come from students.

Next year, there will be a critical debate on whether to raise the cap on top-up university tuition fees in England, currently £3,000 per annum. David Eastwood, the outgoing chief executive of the English Funding Council, recently hypothesized that, given the economic recession, politicians may not wish to raise the cap at all. But this will only make an already dire funding situation even worse. Currently, we tolerate a situation in which working-class taxpayers subsidize middle-class students. This is indefensible. And if the Treasury finds some genuine extra money for education, it must surely go into the primary and secondary sectors.

The cap must be raised. But by how much? A straw poll I conducted among colleagues in British higher education this year suggests that the sector is looking to a figure of around £6,000 per annum. If the cap were abolished, I believe the going rate would in any case coalesce around this sum. This would increase the average cost of a bachelor’s degree to £18,000. Students, who are already beginning to think seriously about the value of the first degree in terms of the extra earning power that it might or might not provide that will be bound to think harder still.

There are a number of steps the sector and the government could take to ease the financial burden. The first would be to move rapidly to a standard two-year bachelor’s programme. Most bachelor’s programmes could easily be reconfigured in this way, without any loss of content or lowering of standards, by teaching during the long summer vacations. This does not mean that academic staff – who need time away from teaching for scholarship and research – would teach all year round, but that the teaching would be delivered more flexibly, over a four-term or three-semester academic year.

Whether the tuition cap is abolished altogether or merely raised, there will need to be a fundamental reform of the way in which students can access financial support. As Mike Baker pointed out in these pages last week, the distinction between full-time and part-time students is nowadays largely fictional. Part-timers are very badly served indeed by current funding support policies. They need to have exactly the same access to grants and loans as full-timers. And all UK students should be able to claim some tax relief on the fees they pay, and on the debts they incur.

But why “go” to university to obtain a degree? A number of private companies are hoping to acquire taught-degree awarding powers. When they do so, it will be possible to move straight from secondary school to a company-based apprenticeship, picking up a degree on the way – and being paid to do so. Indeed, we are practically at this point already. At Flybe, for example, engineers and cabin crew can, as they successfully complete their in-house training, receive certificates calibrated at various levels right through to level 4 of the QCA’s qualifications and credit framework, which is equivalent to a university degree. Further education colleges can now apply for foundation degree awarding powers, and some (especially the large “mixed-economy” colleges that already teach HE as well as FE courses) will surely acquire the coveted “university” title before too long.

I am not one of those who think that “more” necessarily means “worse”. It doesn’t. But as these revolutions gather pace, we need to move away from the one-size-fits-all approach to the qualifications that universities award. The idea that a bachelor’s degree from a “modern” former college of higher education is – and must be – of the same standard as one from a Russell Group research university is daft, and does a disservice to both types of institution. Once we break with the illusion of a single “gold” standard in a mass HE system, some – though not all – of the problems associated with the assurance of academic standards will disappear.

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The number of foreign students applying to British universities could enjoy a boost because of the pound’s plunge, giving UK institutions an advantage over US competitors in their battle for international prestige.

Research from iGraduate, a higher education research group, shows the cost of studying in the UK has fallen sharply for many foreign students, particularly Asians. Britain has become 46 per cent cheaper for Chinese applicants over the past year, and 29 per cent cheaper for Malaysians. The cost for Indian applicants has dropped 10 per cent.


Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, which takes a majority of students from abroad, said: “The currency really does help us. When we were at two bucks to the pound, the total cost of coming to the LSE and living in London was really bumping up against the price of Columbia and Princeton, places that we see as our direct competitors.”

The University of Nottingham’s International Office said the weaker pound gave it an advantage over universities in the US, Singapore and Japan, but currency fluctuations meant British institutions faced strong competition for Asian students from Australia. Early figures from Ucas, the central applications body for UK universities, show the number of non-British applicants for 2009 entry has risen 11.1 per cent year-on-year. The figures comprise students who have applied for medicine, dentistry, veterinary sciences and Oxbridge entry. There was a 24.4 per cent increase in early applicants from Singapore, up from 772 last year to 961. The number from mainland China was up 3.2 per cent, with a 7.7 per cent rise for India.

A spokesman for Manchester university said applications from overseas students had risen from last year.

Dr Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, a senior education analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, said: “A weak pound will make the UK higher education more competitive against other Anglophone systems.”

He added: “Cost to the students is only one factor among many. In the case of Asian students, we know that the country’s reputation in higher education is the first determinant in their choice. Perceived overall quality is important, and with flattering ranks in international rankings the UK has probably strengthened its external reputation.”

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