On February 21st a group of year 12 Human Rights students and Amnesty International youth members were given the opportunity to visit the UK’s Amnesty Centre to learn more about the organisation and take part in a recent campaign for the Saudi Arabian ban on female drivers.

Steve Jobs passed away on Wednesday 5th October 2011 from respiratory arrest after a long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. This piece of news shook the world in ways that were previously unimaginable for the CEO of a technology giant. The reaction of flowers, candles, messages, and thousands upon thousands of obituaries and articles just like this one are normally reserved for the likes of music artists such as Amy Winehouse or Michael Jackson; but this man from a humble background, with no university education has changed the world forever.

From the depths of Antarctica’s Dry Valley Taylor Glacier gushes a steady blood-red waterfall. Trapped below 1,300 feet of ice, an ancient microbial community has lived and evolved independently from the rest of the world - enclosed within a natural time capsule.

The UK government’s decision to allow universities to charge up to £9000 per anum of tuition fees late last year brings up so many emotions – all negative, all prelude to sketchy and potentially dangerous plans of going down to London and pulling an Emily Davison – that I can’t even think of a witty and interesting introduction to this article about said decision. In the unlikely chance that you do know what I’m on about, or thought that the fee was more or less “always” roughly £9000, I bid you to hold on to that feeling.