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Anthony Organ

Anthony Organ


Thousands vote to elect new student reps

4,215 students voted to elect 21 new student representatives

£1m restaurant to open on curry mile

Former MMU student Jaf Siddiqi hopes the restaurant will bring new clients to the area

Police hunt ‘bungling’ burglar

Police are searching for a burglar who botched three robberies in Gorton

‘Wonder material’ potential mapped out

Potential uses for graphene have been mapped out in a new report

Stressed academics face ‘increasingly intolerable pressure’

University staff are considerably more stressed than the average British working person

100,000 science graduates needed to maintain economy

A report has found that an extra 10,000 annual science graduates are needed to maintain the UK economy

University admissions attacked for shunning private schools

The High Master of The Manchester Grammar School claims that ‘positive discrimination’ acts against privately educated pupils

Seven marathons in seven days raises over £14,000

The 180 run raised money for a Trust set up in memory of a former university of Manchester student

New MMU Business School “miles ahead” of competition

Business people from around the North-West praise the new MMU Business School

Majority of European languages at risk of extinction

A study has found that most European languages lack the technological support required to survive in the digital age

US universities increase efforts to recruit UK students

UK fee increases are tempting more students into studying at US universities

Universities could lose £1.5 billion

Huge drop in student intake will leave universities without tuition fee funding

UK university donations to reach £2 billion by 2022

Charitable donations could play a more major role in UK university funding if trends continue

Manchester falls in QS and Shanghai rankings

The university is now 32nd in the QS World University Rankings, down three places from last year.

Mancunians face above average health risks

A pan-European health study has found greater health risks for Greater Manchester than the European average

Universities could face ‘nuclear’ penalties for failing disadvantaged students

The new head of OFFA has promised to encourage wider participation at UK universities

Manchester to receive share of £10m to open up research

Britain’s top research universities will receive £10 million from the government in order to open up research to the public

Man jailed after deliberately crashing car into house

A man has been jailed after a violent rampage, “all over a spilt drink”

Workfare: not fair

As more big businesses continue to criticise and to drop out of government unpaid work experience schemes, it is surely the case that the system is flawed. There are several different schemes currently being employed, some of which are voluntary and others of which have some degree of compulsion, but the former schemes still carry […]

Debate 2: Defending circumcision

Circumcision is a practice which has been debated for thousands of years, but to forcibly prevent it from happening would be wrong.