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So on Thursday the 23rd of June the British people voted to leave the European union and  after speaking to several of my friends many were concerned with what happens now. So what does that actually mean for university students in the UK and students who intend to study in the UK? Well, this question has to be answered in stages. First, we need to understand what the European Union provides higher education students in the UK,  following this I will explain the short term and long term effects for UK based HE students. So what does the EU do for UK university students? Well, this may be harder to gauge than you might think as the impact of the EU can vary greatly from institution to institution from faculty to faculty to course, to course, to student to student even. In simple terms,  many things, for one the freedom of movement allows for students to easily study in other EU countries at the same cost as local students. also, there are considerable grants ...

For me when I was in high school and College all I need to do to avoid plagiarism was not to copy and paste, I was not prepared for how complex the task of writing a 1500 word assignment without plagiarising was. when I was given that don't plagiarise talk in my induction I didn't realise how hard it was when I got my assignment back.  So what is plagiarism? Well according to my university Anglia Ruskin plagiarism is defined as "Plagiarism is when you present someone else’s work, words, images, ideas, opinions or discoveries, whether published or not, as your own. It is also when you take the artwork, images, creative practice or computer-generated work of others, without properly acknowledging where this is from or you do this without their permission".  This definition simply means that any information that you find and repurpose for your assignments,that isn't common knowledge for the subject area, must be referenced correctly in your institution...

Students day in and day out we are faced with countless stresses that we often have never encountered before some times these build up and we find our well-being challenged. Have you ever felt as though university is too much and considered dropping out? Well this blog serves to let you know you are not alone in this struggle and that there are reasons for it and that there are ways to conquer it. You often find in today’s society that mental well-being is a topic not discussed and actively avoided as topics of conversations. Which is strange considering its prevalence in society. There are reasons for the avoidance of the topic of mental well-being is that there is a fear of insulting sufferers of mental illness and a lack of understanding of mental health (which is actually another name for mental well-being) an understanding which is not being advanced since there is a general avoidance of the topic. You often find that there are so many misconceptions when it comes to ment...