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University of Manchester ranks 54th in the world

The University of Manchester continues to climb up the Times Higher Education’s global university ranking

Academics in higher education are told to act like diplomats

Academics at the University of East Anglia have told scholars that their research is not ‘self-evident’

NSS boycott threatens student economics society campaign

The Students’ Union’s boycott of the National Student Survey is causing issues for the campaign tactics of the ever-growing Post-Crash Economics Society

A tale of two globalisations

Recent populist movements that have elected Donald Trump and led to Brexit display a need to expand our vocabulary when speaking of globalisation

West Sussex proposes 4-day school week

Head teachers in West Sussex forced to consider drastic action to battle lack of allocated funding

Brexit: Article 50 to be triggered by March 2017

At the annual Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister announced plans for Article 50 to be triggered by spring of next year

Cap on medical students to be raised but at a cost

Jeremy Hunt announces new plans for present and future medical students

Working and consuming away from progress

Tristan Parsons on the increasing disenfranchisement from progress caused by the economics of work and consumption

Preview: Economics for Everyone Conference 2016

The Post-Crash Economics Society conference ‘Economics for Everyone’ brings together the public, students and economists to learn, talk and democratise economics.

The oncoming crash

Tristan Parsons on the dangerous ground on which an economic recovery is apparently being built, and the risk this poses in the event of another financial crash

Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse – a myth?

A recent report has shown that London’s economy is growing faster than that of any of the northern cities despite plans to create a ‘Northern Powerhouse’

Humanities faculty suggests drastic grading system change

Proposed change in the mark scheme could see students graded in a similar way to the American style of letter grades

Career Corner: Olivia Barker

The place where former Manchester students report back from the ‘real world.’ This week, we chat to charity director Olivia Barker.

Should students become bankers to end poverty?

We visited Oxford’s Centre for Effective Altruism to investigate their surprising conclusion about the best ways to end poverty

Battle lines drawn as Labour stake economic plan on outspending the Conservatives

Ben Fearn explains why he believes Labour’s spending proposals will result in increased support for the party

Budget tips for student gamers

The Mancunion’s top tips for gaming on a student budget

First year student launches T-shirt range

Economics student “takes something everyone is familiar with and puts a twist on it”