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Ellen Conlon

Ellen Conlon

Eureka! competition to improve the library experience

Students face a panel of judges to pitch their ideas about how to enhance the library customer experience
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Tattoos and tashin’ off: RAG #Lost2013

RAG’s #Lost2013 event saw teams hichhike their way back to Manchester from an unknown location, completing challenges along the way
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NUS calls to end ‘laddism’ on campus

‘That’s what she said’ report draws attenion to the ‘lad culture’ invading all aspects of university life
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Dame Nancy is Britain’s 15th most powerful woman

A quarter of the top twenty women on the BBC Woman’s Hour list taught or studied at the University of Manchester
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Sponsor a scholar for sex

Website offering funding to students in exchange for “discreet adventures” exposed
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Staff members pose questions to Dame Nancy

“We will miss the target that’s for certain,” admits Dame Rothwell in Question and Answer session
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Shisha bosses walk out of council meeting

Unimpressed with the council’s refusal to bend the law shisha bar owners leave meeting
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GMP hires apprentices to work for under Minimum Wage

Apprentices will be paid £10,000 a year compared to the National Minimum Wage of around £12,000 a year
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Manchester’s award-winning Creative Writing professor

Manchester’s Jeanette Winterson wins Independent Booksellers Book Prize and is Stonewalls’ Writer of the Year
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Restaurants ask customers to donate to the homeless for Christmas

A campaign returns to Manchester asking restaurant customers to add £1 to their bill to help the homeless this winter
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Car wash company launched on campus

The University teams up with charity to help boost employment among locals
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‘All student journalists are dickheads,’ blasts Union President

Queen Mary Student’s Union President lashes out at students declaring them ‘morons’ and ‘liars’
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Notorious anti-abortion group chanted off campus

Women’s rights campaigners create counter-protest in response to graphic images on display
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News in brief – 12th November

A top tourism award, buses fuelled by household waste and 500 calls to the fire brigade on Bonfire Night
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Russell Group could see £80 million loss

Low numbers of undergraduates could cause universities to lose up to £80 million
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Shisha bars threaten strike on Curry Mile

Shisha bosses may strike if their compromises are not met in indoor smoking crackdown
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News in brief – 5th November

Mancunian zombies, a million pound exhibition and a WWI bomb found in Didsbury
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UK voted the safest place to study by foreign students

The UK’s ‘multicultural nature’ wins it the title of the safest place for international students to study
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Oxbridge raise bar in admissions process

Prospective students will have to face more tests and achieve better results next year to gain places at the prestigious institutions
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News in brief – 22nd Oct

Furious Man City fans, a cake-baking law graduate and GMP facing a large fine
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