Tom Jenkin
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What your British ice cream preference says about you as a person
I scream. You scream. In fact, we all scream for ice cream. Yep, ice cream is a formative part of culinary culture for us Brits. Ever since our first summer rolled around we’ve been used to having a Fab jammed in our mouths, sucking on a Solero or munching gleefully on a Magnum or two. But, now we’re grown, we’ve developed the element of choice – and the ice cream you choose when the days get… → Read More
Which flavour of crisp is your uni?
Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. You know what that is? It’s the sound of you, in the library, shoving crisps into your pathetic mouth as your deskmates fantasise about putting your face through your laptop screen. Yes, some people at uni like crisps. And yes, we at The Tab write about uni and eat crisps too. But what would your uni be, if it were a flavour of British crisp? Who the fuck cares! UEA –… → Read More
Revealed: Which course is having the least sex
Physical exertion is often touted as the best way to relieve yourself of stress. So we asked 10,000 Tab readers, in the middle of exam season, how much sex they’ve had in the last 30 days. And whoever said our generation is sex crazed is, quite frankly, horribly wrong. Let’s spare a thought for poor Physicists. There’s is a stressful course and they do work hard – 25 per cent of them get firsts.… → Read More
Modafinil, Ritalin and Adderall: Which course takes the most study drugs
Is it cheating? → Read More
Revealed: The amount of students at your university voting Tory
On June 8th, the UK will take to the polls and Theresa May’s Tories are predicted a huge victory. And if you aren’t happy about that, relying on the student vote probably isn’t going to be enough. Despite slashing maintenance grants, upping fees to £9,000 and just generally never having been the choice of students, 27 per cent of respondents to our survey are going to vote for the Conservatives.… → Read More
Who will you be voting for in June? Take The Tab's snap election survey
The Tories are the second most popular party among students, apparently → Read More
Revealed: The universities with the most students suffering from anxiety
Almost 40 per cent of students in the country say they are suffering from anxiety. The Tab’s annual mental health survey of 9,000 students – the only one of it’s kind – found at some universities 44 per cent have an anxiety problem. On a national level, 38 per cent told our survey they had anxiety. Liverpool John Moores and St Andrews topped the league with almost half at 44 per cent. They were… → Read More
Revealed: The courses who claim to be more stressed than you are right now
It’s exam season. You’ve been as smug as possible handing in your dissertation and term two essays, but that all came crashing down when you realised you had revision to do. Nothing could make this a more stressful time of year could it… That is, unless, you live with an Architect. You know the one, who “never sleeps” and always pulls all nighters, is always in the studio, and spends more time… → Read More
The number of suicides at British universities before anyone started to notice
A Tab investigation reveals that universities don't even have the figures → Read More
The number of suicides at British universities before anyone started to notice
A Tab investigation reveals that universities don't even have the figures → Read More
Revealed: The courses which have to pull the most all nighters to get work done
Will they ever stop? I mean, all they’re doing is using a protractor and compass to figure out where a door should be and if your Mum can build an extension right? Well, whatever Architects are up to, it certainly isn’t sleeping. According to The Tab’s Sleep Survey – taken by 6,000 people – more Architecture students claim to have pulled all nighters than anyone else. A highly sleep deprived 88… → Read More
Take The Tab's Mental Health Survey 2017
It's one of the biggest problems at university and it's time to tackle it → Read More
Revealed: The courses smoking the most weed, because they've got nothing better to do
David Cameron says he did it. Obama openly laughs about it. Pretty much any MP trying to curry the teenage vote admits to it. So now, all the Politics students are smoking weed. When they’re not discussing political theory or how they’re going to screw over their running mate in the SU elections, 84.8 per cent of Politics students are bunning down, leaving them top of the stoner league. They’re… → Read More
Researchers have decided which universities are more likely to get you a job when you graduate
You’re born, you go to school, you do A-Levels and you pay £9,000-a-year for a degree. For what? A job, a career, a sad lunch at your desk and Friday beers, that’s what. But how likely are you to get that all important job at the end of it? Or, if you can’t be bothered with the taxing life of a graduate, will your degree get you onto a masters? The university that makes all the blood, sweat and… → Read More
The hardest universities to get a place at in the UK
The number of snowflake students shirking real life responsibility and slumming it in their digs, getting legless in the street and falling asleep in their kebabs is on the rise – according to the tabloids. But how hard is it to actually get into your university? Figures compiled by HESA for The Times’ Good Uni Guide show that, no surprises, Cambridge and Oxford have the highest standards for… → Read More
Degree calculator: What marks do you need to get a 2:1?
Worried if you’re going to scrape that 2:1? Or are you pushing for a first? We’ve built a calculator with GradeHub that can tell you what marks you need to graduate without a Desmond. You can figure out what you need overall, what you need in each module and what you need in each assessment or exam. It will help you find out how well you are doing in your uni courses and how well you need to do… → Read More
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 → Read More
What are the odds: The game ruining everyone's night out
Shunned by friends and no longer any fun, if you don’t take the forfeit you are weak and a failure. The laws of the playground exist at uni more than anywhere else. Freshers eat urinal cakes, do press ups dressed in mankinis in public and travel the length of the country if they lose a game of fives. Of course you can refuse a forfeit, but not many do. Now there is one game that facilitates our… → Read More