Over one in four students have now voted in the sabbatical elections, smashing both national and university records

After placing eighth-best in the UK and 53rd in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the University of Manchester is now the UK’s eighth most reputable university and 50th most respected university in the world.

The student-run charity shop initiative relaunches

Votes in the Student’s Union elections may be cast until Thursday the 12th at 3pm. Go to MyManchester and click ‘Vote Now’. More information about all candidates can be found on the Students’ Union website

Fuse FM staged a 24-hour broadcast for Action for ME a charity which offers support for people suffering with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Lecturers from the University of Manchester took part in a politics question time style event at 256 Bar in Fallowfield

Thousands sign petition to prevent Islamic scholar Haitham Al-Haddad from speaking at the University of Westminster

Hester Lonergan reports on her favourite Northern Quarter coffee joint

The National University of Ireland Galway is branded “misogynistic” for invasive personal health questions asked on a form for successful job candidates

Students are outraged as the beginning of second semester meets the removal of the ‘Palestine and the Right to Education’ plaque from Manchester’s Students’ Union

Liam Byrne MP visited the university to discuss Labour’s tuition fees pledge and to answer students’ questions

Sexpression and Manchester Students’ Union’s collaboration of Sex Week 2015 has been a great success, encouraging awareness and providing information about sexual health and consent as well as LGBT+ issues

The University of Manchester is launching a month of celebration for alumni donors, including a Celebration of Philanthropy day

Scores in the Eating Attitude Test show that female students with financial problems are most at risk of acquiring an eating disorder

The idea of cutting carbohydrates to promote weight-loss is no stranger to the diet scene, but it definitely gets a bad rep due to the inevitable heavy regain as the price for its betrayal

Plans to invest £530000 to encourage students to register to vote after many are thought to have dropped off the electoral register

The project will involve expanding both the North and South wings of the building, and upgrading the building’s utilities

The Mancunion liveblogs the unofficial hustings for this year’s Exec Team elections

Spiked’s Free Speech University Rankings ranked universities on the level of free expression allowed on campus. The University of Manchester was ranked amber; the university itself received green, but the Students’ Union’s amber ranking pulled it down.

Three buildings in the University of Manchester’s North Campus have had to be evacuated, and Sackville Street cordoned off, after the highly explosive chemical acetone peroxide was reported to have crystallised