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Valeria Puig is a young filmmaker from Uruguay who studied in the UK and is currently working in London. In her second video blog of the series,  she describes her latest project 'Confessions of a Taxi Driver'.

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Every week we bring you a round up of all the student news from the past week, as well as the trends hitting the web at the moment. This week's includes criticisms of the student visa changes, a singing Finnish street band (pictured above) and searching Google with your voice...

Student News

MBAs are still Invaluable

Nick Leake, the British high commissioner to Mauritius, reveals why he thinks MBAs are invaluable not only to your career but your personal growth. His MBA from the Open University, has "given [him] the confidence to deliver on all aspects of [his] job while addressing challenges strategically".                                                    READ MORE...

Macro photography... anybody here know what that means? Correct - close-up photography! Looking at objects from close quarters opens up a whole new world.

Remember when you were at school and your chemistry teacher gave you slides of crystals to look at under a microscope, and how wonderful the form was? Nowadays macro photography is within the realms of most of us. Even low cost digital cameras have a macro mode- set your camera and as you view the image on the screen move in as close as you can until the camera will no longer focus. Take the picture and then crop it in Photoshop or other similar program to make it even better.

Two giants of British sport will hopefully both be reaching the pinnacle of their careers this weekend as UK sport comes to the attention of the world. At Wimbledon Andy Murray is playing in the semi-finals today, whilst on Saturday night, boxer David Haye will be taking part in the biggest heavyweight fight of the decade.

Murray Mania

First up is men's semi-finals day at Wimbledon which starts at 1pm this afternoon. The single British hope Andy Murray is playing Rafael Nadal in the second match on Centre Court in a repeat of last year's semi-final. Nadal comfortably won last year and looks to be in good form again this year, but Murray is in a confident mood:

"I know I'll have to run and run, I know it will be physically and mentally tough, but I also know I can win."

If he manages to pull of a surprise and beat the world number 1, then Murray will be able to look forward to playing in the Wimbledon Final on Sunday against the winner of the other semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Wilfred Tsonga.

One of the biggest Public Sector strikes in recent history has hit Britain today, with as many as 750,000 workers staging a 24-hour protest over changes to their pensions.

Workers from schools, colleges, airports, ports, courts and prisons have all refused to show up for work in what some union officials are calling "the best supported strike we have ever seen". This action is the result of new Government plans to change public sector pensions which they claim are currently costing the taxpayer too much money as life spans continue to increase. However, workers' unions believe that the changes are completely unjustified and will force their members to work well in to their 60's and then receive a pension too small to comfortably live on.

Chaos and Closures

Schools are one of the worst affected sectors, as roughly one third have had to close today, whilst another third will be partly closed. This equates to about 12,000 schools around the UK being affected, leaving hundreds of thousands of children at home for the day.