End of Term recently caught up with 17-year-old Nathan Sykes, youngest member of the UK’s latest chart-topping boy band, The Wanted. WORDS: ROSALIND TULLOCH GIVEN YOU RECENTLY HAD A NUMBER ONE HIT... HOW DID YOU GET ON WITH YOUR A LEVELS? I was really nervous cos I’ve only been at school for pretty much one term during the last year! I didn’t really get to do as much revision as I would have liked and, when it came to exams, I had no exam practice and was massively unprepared. So I am very surprised that I passed. I was really proud cos I got full marks in my music performance

The Scottish songstress, who recently took over the airwaves with her debut single ‘Hello’, is a big fan of the magazine that helped her along the way – yes, we mean End of Term! WORDS: ROSALIND TULLOCH Back in 2008 End of Term discovered an amazing ‘unsigned’ singer-songwriter performing at the Scotcampus freshers festival in Glasgow. Having fallen in love with her acoustic sound, we decided to get Carrie MacDonald, then 21, into a recording studio to record her first demo album – and ran a feature on the process in our Spring 2009 issue. In fact, Carrie’s cropped u

University isn’t the only option open to you after you leave school; here are some of the options! WORDS: ROSALIND TULLOCH Gap Year Now is probably the best time to get out of the country and gain some ‘life experience’ by trekking around the world! With unemployment on the up, particularly in Scotland, who could blame you for wanting to see what other countries have to offer? And who knows, you may end up finding the job of a lifetime! A gap year may conjure up the idea of living out of a backpack, hopping from hostel to hostel and counting your pennies to make sure you have

End of Term recently caught up with Kyle Falconer, lead singer of infamous Dundee band, The View, to find out what they have planned for the future... WORDS: HANNAH PHILLIPS 2010 was your fourth year at T in the Park. Why do you keep going back? Because it’s T in the Park! Every time we’ve gone, the number of people have increased. We’ve been going since we were young, so it’s a big day for us. What’s better: festival or touring? Well, when you’re doing the festivals it’s like you’re touring because you’re going from one festival to the next one. Festival

xx It has become a genuinely global language; so, when ‘everyone speaks English’, what’s the point of learning to chat with foreigners in their mother tongues? More than you might think! WORDS: It’s good to talk. Many scientists believe the development of languages is at the heart of all human societies. And, let’s face it, if you couldn’t talk to people, how far would you get in your everyday lives? But if it’s innately human to talk, it’s also innately human to try and get away with the bare minimum of work. Which may be why fewer of us English-speakers are botheri