Student volunteering expeditions will be furiously promoted at our university this week, but it’s our responsibility to ignore them

Is volunteering abroad just a way to prove your superiority, or is there a real benefit to it?

Is volunteering in the third world a life changing experience for both parties, or just the one?

Joe Evans questions the box-ticking mentality which drives us to work experience and extra-curricular activities simply as a way of impressing potential employers with our overflowing CV

Travelling the world in aid of volunteering whilst overlooking the needs of those close to us is a result of first-world boredom and the necessity of moral reassurance

On their own, degrees may not be enough but employers’ obsession with ‘extracurricular activity’ leaves Tom Glasser exasperated