About

Company

What is an Emerging Student? A student, graduate , emerging talent in pursuit of good character and the excelling of their craft. Emerging Students is a media and publication brand mixing grassroot university culture with real world perspective through smart editorial, photography, illustration and film across 5 sections; ‘shakers(entrepreneurship),culture, affairs, design & fashion, sport’. Emerging Students seeks to cover the richness of university culture and emerging talent across the UK(Europe) North America & Asia. Expect to see everything from wholesome societies, start-ups, rogue university policy makers, graduate designers, alumni shakers, film festivals in Utah to the best place to buy fresh bread for life on campus.

Emerging Students finds itself on the desks, devices and journeys of around 6,500 students, graduates, emerging leaders, academics and decision makers around the world.

Conceptualised by Anthony Ogunbowale – Thomas a recent graduate from Kingston University London in 2010 when reminiscing about his 3 years at university, it became apparent that ‘university didn’t actually prepare students for life after university’ nor did the UK university experience do justice to the richness of collegiate culture that occurred on the ground level of campuses. Emerging Students officially set up shop in 2011 and since has worked with emerging talent, students and clubs at Oxford, London Business School, Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths, LSE. 2011 culminated with the launch of the first issue ‘The Shaker’s Issue’ and an intimate strategy, debate and forecasting evening looking at ‘Brand Britain’ hosted at Wolff Olins London. The story continues.

Context

“The current offering from the majority of universities fail to encompass key attributes an institution as pivotal as itself should encompass. University is about knowledge acquisition, with very little emphasis on the development of ‘students, graduates, alumni, academics’ as people, an attribute that the first university institutions embodied far better and much more.

University tends to have an excessive culture of binge drinking and sausage rolls, a ‘learn this to pass this exam-culture’, but with university becoming more of a premium choice, the question begging to be answered is ‘what am I actually getting out of my time at university?’ We need a rethink on what university offers, who plays what role and how we provide a valuable experience that does justice to those who buy into it. If it’s true that universities are producing our economy’s next workforce, leaders, innovators, designers and CEO’s, it’s roots should go far deeper in our development.

Emerging Students believe that issues such as hard work, integrity, starting an enterprise, social economics, authenticity, time management, honesty, craft, relationship, leadership, engaging community, justice, creativity and international perspective to name a few, ought become a foremost consideration for those going in and out of university transitioning into the world.

We hope to contribute in addressing this.”

Anthony Ogunbowale-Thomas

Editor in chief

Emerging Students