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We need to politicise mental health
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
17th April 2024
With the RHS Urban Show coming to Manchester, we've found some of the best houseplants to enhance your student accommodation
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6th June 2023
Caroline Polachek stuns a sold-out Albert in her rescheduled show, touring her second solo album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.
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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, programming and being a first-time filmmaker: “There has to be room in the film world for all tastes”
16th April 2024
In conversation with Jane Giles, co-director of SCALA!!!, we discuss how she came to make the film, her career in programming and how the London cinema had lasting impact on young audiences
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UCAS sells access to students’ personal details to advertisers
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Company reportedly makes millions for selling access to the personal details of university applicants
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Serial Withington sex attacker assaults four more women
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Most of the women attacked have been students
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Bursaries failing to keep poorer students in university
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Universities have been advised not to spend so much on bursaries for disadvantaged students
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Working classes must ‘fit in’ to ‘middle class world’ to go to university, says government adviser
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Peter Brant claims acting middle class will encourage the working class to apply to top universities
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Government “unrealistic” about student loan repayments
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New report says that £80 billion of unpaid debt may be an underestimate
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University spends £20,000 to build a pub
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London South Bank University is using the bar as a psychology experiment
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Human rights campaigner made Honorary Professor of Law
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Shami Chakrabarti is the Director of Liberty and advocate of civil rights
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Ministers ‘very concerned’ by vice chancellor’s pay rises
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Vince Cable and David Willetts have called for senior management to show “much greater restraint”
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Student protestors could face prison for violent disorder
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The Birmingham Guild of Students’ Officers is facing countrywide condemnation for calling themselves “disappointed” by protestors.
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Staff member charged with voyeurism
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A member of the House Services Team has been charged with two counts of voyeurism
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Clubbers in hospital after ceiling collapses at Factory 251
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A large piece of plasterboard fell from the second floor ceiling
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University hacked for MoD links
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Queen Mary has been accused of collaborating ‘with government security services’ to ‘monitor civilians’
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Snowden stands for Glasgow Uni election
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The former NSA agent has been nominated for the position of student rector
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Man sexually assaults five women in Withington
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Offender targeted young women on their own at night
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Student protestors and police clash in Birmingham
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The lastest protest at the University of Birmingham caused outrage on both sides
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40 years for murderer of MMU lecturer and family
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Judge said Anxiang Du killed all four members of the Ding family with “ruthless efficiency”
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Shock as “joke” candidate becomes president of Oxford Students’ Union
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The third year Georgraphy student insists there is a serious side behind his spoof campaign
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Manchester Wetherspoons in homophobia row
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The popular pub chain has been accused of discriminating against three homosexual men
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MMU lecturer murder trial begins
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Anxiang Du is accused of the murder of Jifeng Ding, his wife and two children.
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Students speak out against sexual harassment
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As universities step up campaigns against sexual harassment, students tell The Mancunion of their personal experiences
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