Category: Your View

Empowering young people to pave the way for internet safety
Social media and online learning platform, Natterhub, is seeking a panel of young advisors to pave the way for internet safety. The young advisors will be invited to virtually meet in small groups to share their thoughts and experiences about being online and on screens. By representing a young persons’ voice for internet issues, the…
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Over to you: Rachel Gorman on missing the milestones
Well, this year definitely didn’t go the way you originally planned. From exam fiascos, months out of school to cancelled summer holiday plans, what happened to 2020? Young Scots share their 2020 on pause.
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Over to you: Aimee Thorpe on COVID and mental health
Well, this year definitely didn’t go the way you originally planned. From exam fiascos, months out of school to cancelled summer holiday plans, what happened to 2020? Young Scots share their 2020 on pause.
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Over to you: Lara Henderson on this year’s exam results
Well, this year definitely didn’t go the way you originally planned. From exam fiascos, months out of school to cancelled summer holiday plans, what happened to 2020? Young Scots share their 2020 on pause.
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The Show Must Go On – Comedy in today’s era of political correctness
Can comedy and PC culture co-exist? Source intern Olivia McCann argues that context is key.
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Come Fly With Me: My Experience on a Gap Year
I’m the first person to admit I never wanted to take a gap year. I wanted to move away as soon as I finished school. However, finding myself rejected from my first-choice university and unwilling to settle on anything less than that, I was suddenly having a gap year.
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Listen up! You could get the chance to question the First Minister
First Minister’s Question Time: Next Generation is back and needs your questions about government, policy and wider society.
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YOUR VIEW: Why we need a reading revival
We live in an age of instant gratification. And I’ll be the first to admit, as an Instagram addict, regular tweeter, and serial Netflix-binger, that I am a victim of this. Yet it saddens me all the same, because not only has this new lifestyle negatively affected our self-esteem and attention spans (and that’s only…
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The Lowdown: Say No To World Parents Day
On the first day of June every year, we celebrate global Parents Day. Having just been made aware of this holiday and its meaning, it struck me as odd that we should have one particular day to celebrate the people who gave us life. Are we really going to lump them in with the likes…
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