Round up of the Week (1-8-11)

Every week we bring you a round up of all the student news from the past week, as well as the trends hitting the web at the moment. This week's includes universities offering cash for the best pupils, Stephen Fry's Twitter badge and Maths lessons with a difference.  

Student News

Univerities in UK to Offer Money to Top Pupils

Under new government plans, universities will be able to attract as many of the best pupils as they can from 2012 onwards, and may start offering financial incentives according to the president of Universities UK. Sir Steve Smith believes that:

"The complication for universities is if you don't recruit the same percentage of students with AAB or better than you had last year what happens is you lose the funding for those students. That means those students become very attractive and thus institutions will do what they can to lower the cost of attending university in order to attract them."                                                                                                                        READ MORE...

Maths Lessons with a Difference

Not many people have never been bored during a Maths lesson at some point. However, two Maths teachers at a school in London have come up with a new way to try and get their pupils interested in the subject; by creating a rap video. The pair have dubbed themselves ‘Significant Figures' and recorded the song- Pi r Squared, along with some of their Year 10 students.                                                                                                                           READ MORE...

Internet and Technology

Stephen Fry Recognised for Twitter Exploits

Popular British TV presenter, author and all round genius Stephen Fry (pictured above) has been named in the Scout Birthday Honours list for his contribution to the world of Twitter. The annual awards allow the half a million British scout members to vote for public figures who they feel deserve an honourary badge. They clearly felt that Fry's 2.8 miollion Twitter followers couldn't be wrong, and awarded him the IT badge.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            READ MORE...   

Life in a Day Project

A year ago, YouTube asked people to submit a video simply showing what they did that day. The response was 80,000 videos submitted from more than 190 different countries around the world. These were then collated and distilled in to one long documentary called Life in a Day. To give it some sort of structure, the people were asked three simple questions: What do you love? What do you fear? What's in your pocket? See some of their answers in the trailer below.

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