History university students enjoy most active sex lives

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Brit university vice-chancellor Terence Kealey, who is at the centre of a row over an article about female students being a "perk" to be enjoyed by male academics, has defended his comments. According to the Daily Telegraph, Kealey was criticised for making the suggestion, and the article has also prompted claims that the comments displayed a "lack of respect" for women.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A Brit university vice-chancellor has suggested that female students are a "perk" to be enjoyed by male academics. Terence Kealey, from Buckingham University, said many lecturers knew girls who flaunted their "curves" in the classroom, but he warned academics to "look but not touch".

September 5th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Old age hasn't stopped Aussie baby boomers to enjoy a healthy sex life. A new survey has revealed that 40 per cent of men aged 75 to 79 said they were sexually active, and almost 30 per cent of men aged 80 to 84 had had sex in the past 12 months.

August 21st, 2009 BRISBANE - Data obtained by The Courier-Mail shows that between July 2007 and June this year, 10,913 notices were issued to international students by registered higher education providers in Australia in compliance with the requirements of the Commonwealth Education Services for Overseas Students Act. This coincides with the Australian Government's moves to tighten the criteria Australia's registered higher education providers must meet in the wake of claims some colleges, principally private facilities offering vocational courses, are ripping off international students.

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - Its not just humans who enjoy soaking up in the sun on the beach, for birds are fond of sunbathing too, according to the bird charity RSPB. The charity revealed that they receive almost 100 calls during hot spells from people who are concerned with watching birds lying with their feathers and wings exposed to the sun.

August 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Although young adults between 18- to 24-year-olds are more politically active, their involvement hasn't increased their knowledge about politics, finds a new US study. Three Kansas State University graduate students have found that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic became more politically active during the 2008 U.S.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Thousands of foreign students, most of them of Pakistani origin, who are granted visas to study at UK universities never turn up. According to The Sun, three universities alone have shown nearly 2,500 applicants who failed to enroll in the last three years.

July 3rd, 2009 CANBERRA - Newly arrived international students could be given priority for on-campus accommodation as one way of boosting safety, according to a position paper released on Thursday by Universities Australia. University Australia chief executive Glenn Withers stressed that priority should also be given to domestic students from regional areas and interstate who have to move to attend university.

June 16th, 2009 LONDON - Drunken, bikini-clad Cambridge University students were seen collapsing and throwing up after binge drinking at midday on a Sunday afternoon. The students were spotted struggling to stand up after a wild end-of-exams party, tagged Suicide Sunday.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Want to have great sex with your partner? Well, then wait for four years. That's the conclusion of a new survey which revealed that couples enjoy the best sex of their lives when they have been together for four years.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - Hundreds of students of a top Japanese university are getting sat-nav iPhones, so that it's easier to track them down in case they skip classes. Usually, students fake attendance by getting friends to answer proxy roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards.

May 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In her commencement address to the graduating students of University of California at Merced, America's first lady Michelle Obama encouraged the students to serve their communities. Recalling her personal journey from the South Side of Chicago to an Ivy League degree and then finally to the White House, Michelle Obama said students should continue to push for big things as they chart their lives in the future, but not forget their roots.

May 4th, 2009 TORONTO - As part of a trial that could soon become the modus operandi of university examinations in Norway, around 6,000 college students took exams on their laptops. Every 16-19 year-old in Nord-Trondelag county in Norway has been trying out the laptop-based system, the BBC reports.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - Jack Nicholson handed out acting advice to students at his daughter's university campus on April 25. The Departed star joined the panel including producers Robert Evans, Brad Grey and former studio chief Peter Bart for the Ivy League Film Festival session at Rhode Island's Brown University.

February 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Students at a prestigious Oxford University college have rallied around a kabab seller after college authorities forced him to move, complaining of smell. Saeid Keshmiri, 62, had been supplying Christ Church students with kababs, chips and burgers from his 'Sid's Kitchen' van, strategically positioned at the college entrance, for the last 15 years.