INTO Giving: My trip to Zambia
Ever wanted to know more about our INTO Giving charity and the great projects it’s involved in? Here, INTO Giving Advocate, Hannah Mold, shares the diary of her four-day trip to...
Category: Lifestyle
Student experience: my first Chinese New Year
The Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the biggest celebration in the Chinese calendar. Sian, a former international student in China, talks about the first time she experienced the...
CV Boosters (part 3): 5 extra-curricular activities that will improve your CV
In the latest part of our CV Boosters series, Jessie Brown from Great British Mag explains how extra-curricular activities can improve your CV for that added edge… A university qualification only gets...
Student Experience: Diary of my first week at INTO GCU
What’s it like to arrive at an INTO centre for the first time? INTO GCU student, Victor Hugo Parrado Cortesl from Colombia, shares the diary of his first week… Arrival Day...
10 ways to have fun for free
If you’re a student then you’re probably on a budget. But the question is – are you going to let that stop you from having a good time? We hope...
Top tips for food shopping on a student budget
Sick of cheap cardboard pizza yet? Still convincing yourself that microwave chips count as part of your daily vegetable allowance (well, they’re made of potatoes, aren’t they)? When you’re ay...
Smart student savings for the January slump
The Christmas break is over and it’s the start of an exciting new year for university students. However, after the period of celebrations and costs such as parties, gifts, Christmas dinner,...
How to enjoy Christmas on a budget
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, winter is a great time to get together with friends and family and enjoy yourselves. It can also be an expensive time of year,...
Taste Test: 6 classic British dishes
British cuisine is a strange and mysterious thing to many international students. Why do Brits eat Yorkshire “pudding” as part of a main course? What’s a “banger”? And is there...
5 dream study spaces
Why can you never find the perfect place to study? Your room is too distracting, the café is too noisy, the library is too quiet. But what is the perfect...
