Interview questions from hell – for a job at the SU bar

What's the worst question you've been asked in a job interview? Students at Bournemouth uni were asked how many people they'd slept with when they were interviewed for a job at the student union bar last week.

Sex-related questions were meant to relax the students before their formal interviews. According to the Tab, freshers were encouraged to make awkward confessions, such as wetting themselves and accidentally pulling members of their own sex.

A student who now works at The Old Fire Station in Bournemouth says:

"A girl got asked how many people she'd slept with and if she'd kissed anyone in her flat."

Another student who went to the interview says: "We had to sit in groups and toss a ball around and if we dropped it we had to say 'fuck, marry or avoid' to people in the circle.

"I felt uncomfortable with the whole thing – it was obvious if you hadn't done anything. It discriminated against people who hadn't had sex or didn't drink."

But the Old Fire Station's assistant manager Martin Huntley defended the game, saying that it was not used to assess candidates. He says: "If people find things like that inappropriate, then they are well within their rights to remove themselves from the situation."

The most expensive university to study at is...

If you factor in living costs, rent and tuition fees, the London School of Economics is the most expensive university to study at, according to a recent survey by Ukash.

The survey took into account expenses, including insurance, a gym membership at your uni and a pint at the student union bar. Heriot-Watt was the cheapest of the unis surveyed. Of those outside London, Oxford, Cambridge and Bath were particularly expensive.

Student loan sell-off

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NUS president Toni Pearce appeared in parliament this week to discuss students' worries about the proposed privatisation of student loans taken out after 1998.

She said: "I think a lot of students' concerns are around who they owe their money to and who they're paying, and whether that's going to benefit private interest or whether it's going to fund education."

Anxious students are preparing for a national week of action in February. At Leeds, students are considering a march and the first occupation of university premises in four years, according to the Leeds Student paper.

Can money buy you happiness?

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It turns out that money can buy you happiness – up to a point. A recent study by the University of Warwick found that life satisfaction does increase with wealth.

But only up an average earning per person of around £22,000; after that people actually seem to get less happy the more they earn.

Maybe it's not surprising that having enough money to support yourself takes a weight off your shoulders, but the fact that more money could mean more worry might come as a surprise.

Did the potential salary attract you to your degree course? And do you think earning more money would make you happier? Share your thoughts in the comments below.