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QAA review should not be ignored
By Nouse — May 22, 2012
The findings of the QAA review need to be properly followed up, and not just seen as a minor defect. It has been shown previously that the University has been concerned about the proportion of international students involved in academic misconduct cases, and yet that the review still found cause to highlight their efforts, and [...]
Housing law should be opposed
By Nouse — May 22, 2012
The possibility of new housing laws, in the name of ecological benefits, should be treated with caution by the student populations. Obviously, we should all strive towards being as green as possible, but there must be limits and allowing this law to come into force may do more harm than good. Student houses are already [...]
The Mediterranean state of the library
By Nouse — May 22, 2012
We’re back in the 1940s, and the library has become the Western front. Everywhere you look, ordinary, perfectly kind-hearted people are morphing into German sun-lounger claiming mavericks. Objectionable xenophobic comment aside, it is unacceptable that people feel they can ‘stake-out’ desks, saving empty seats for hours whilst other miserable students tramp up and down the [...]
Escaping the student stereotype
By Alex Slingsby — May 22, 2012
Right from the word ‘go’, we jumped into our crates of Fosters like it was going out of fashion. It’s almost expected of you. Students spend a lot of time (and student loans) getting familiar with alcohol, and the excuse is that we’re ‘fulfilling the stereotype’.
Collusion confusion with the QAA
By Rob Thomas — May 22, 2012
Shouldn’t the University focus more on assuring that every student knows what is expected of them before pointing the finger? It seems that more needs to be done concerning ambiguity surrounding academic misconduct
The Greek fight continues
By Emilia Poizi — May 22, 2012
I may not drink ouzo, break plates, or say Opa in my daily life. I may not sing loudly, or dance in the middle of the night, but I am proud of being Hellene. The survival of Greece has been in the center of discussion not only in Europe but all over the world. Is [...]
All roads lead to London
By Patrick Greenfield — May 22, 2012
The Olympics have unfortunately revealed a London-centric Britain that has an unnerving capacity to isolate large sections of the country
Failed by our own language
By Emma Double — May 22, 2012
School children frequently don’t learn another language until age eleven. Currently it isn’t even compulsory to learn another language up to GCSE. Every year we hear that fewer students are taking modern foreign languages to A-level and beyond, endangering increasing numbers of university language departments.
Britain: a housing market built upon the sand
By James Paton — May 22, 2012
It’s not government austerity that is the problem – we need more of it in fact as the government spends too much money. But when interest rates rise, this whole phony economy is going to collapse.
The Exam Beard
By Rohan Banerjee — May 22, 2012
The concept is simple. For the weeks leading up to and during your exams, you do not shave. Then, presumably by the grace of some unseen hairy gods, you will achieve good marks
Have we lost our way?
By Laura Hughes — May 22, 2012
Was it ethical apathy or the instinctive tendency towards self-preservation in times of economic insecurity, that determined the outcome of the motion to challenge the University’s relationship with BAE Systems?
Students first to lose out on donations
By Nouse — May 1, 2012
Student support, societies, and the collegiate network are some of the most important elements of life at the University of York. At the moment, this is reflected in the generous level of donations by alumni to these services we all benefit from, that help to keep them afloat. But philanthropy is by no means guaranteed. [...]
Satisfaction survey confirms suspicions
By Nouse — May 1, 2012
The results of this latest survey should come as no surprise. Time and again it has been stressed by students to campus authorities that there is no market for the number of catered rooms that exist on campus. Many students are forced into such rooms, which are inevitably, significantly more expensive. Other accommodation disappears in [...]
YUSU accounts are to be welcomed
By Nouse — May 1, 2012
YUSU should and needs to make its accounts available online, as have other student unions across the country. Putting the accounts online, and advertising them properly to the student body, sends out a clear message to the students who have elected them. They are a body elected for students, by students. Nouse had intended to [...]
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