Student Safety

In a few weeks' time thousands of students will be leaving home for the first time to go away to university. They will no doubt be feeling very excited and also perhaps apprehensive. There will be lots of things to think about and a priority should be safety. Safety of the student and of their belongings, so I am passing on some advice here to all students and do hope it will be helpful. PERSONAL SAFETY First of all, be sensible about your own personal safety. Your parents have brought you up and looked after you so far, don't throw away all their hard work by not taking care of yourself when you leave home!!! They will be worried ...  Read the complete review

I have always been what you would call safety conscious and I think much of this stems down from my parents who would always encourage me not to walk the streets or to handle cash in public or to leave my bag or purse around in strange places. All of this advice came to me when I was very little and it has stayed with me but I always had my parents there for me incase anything went wrong. Then I went to university and for the first time in my life I was living away from home and had to look after myself completely. I did not exactly live in the nicest area in the world so here are my top tips and advice for keeping yourself safe while you are a university ...  Read the complete review

Hello all ,not been on a while,had a rubbish month.I wish to state the importance of making sure you child whether 13 or 23 is safe at all times,it sounds corney giving children mobile phones but i think they should be given a cheap one with a number they can contact free asap, My daughter aged 13 Tamara has a mobile and is always forgetting to charge it so i have to call her friends to find out where she is.A month ago she was supposed to be home at 9pm by ten i was extreemly worried having tried to call her mobile with no joy eventually i got hold of her with her battery running low ,my car was of road so couldnt go get her she was within 10 to 15 mins walk ...  Read the complete review

The musty smell of seediness seeps through every pore in the dimly lit walkway – men hang around on corners smelling of alcohol, lurching, ready to pounce on whatever comes their way… still enough about the corridors of Granada TV, this op is all about student safety and how to avoid becoming a statistic. I went to University in Manchester, which before I went people likened to being half-way between Beirut and Grozny, but with more amusement arcades. Like most cities, Manchester has a pretty high crime-rate in relation to the rest of the country, and has a particularly bad reputation in relation to personal crimes like ‘mugging’ (or ...  Read the complete review

Although this opinion is in a student category it is not totally aimed at students. It should be helpful to many people out there and could save lives. This is not the most reassuring opinion I have written. I am sorry if I scare any students or put anyone off going to university but I feel as if we should face reality and the true stories should be told. Crime is part of life. Not a day goes by when you hear a story on the news about a murder or a mugging. For some people it is just a daily habit, pinching someones phone and causing misery to hundreds. I feel like a policeman writing this opinion. Every year a policeman comes to our university and explains the ...  Read the complete review