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11th November 2015

Manchester City Council is putting steps in place as numbers of rough sleepers continues to rise

11th November 2015

Next Monday, the Student Parents and Carers stall will be outside University Place to offer support and advice to those who care for a family member or child

11th November 2015

HEFCE admit statistics released this summer, suggesting state school students did better at university than privately educated students, were reversed

10th November 2015

Four student bands from the University of Manchester are competing in a charity gig night next Tuesday for the chance to represent the university in the national iSessions competition organised by The Independent and the i

9th November 2015

Fortunately for my daily chocolate intake (for the next year at least), Greenhouse now stock the award-winning brand of Kokoa Collection

9th November 2015

High profile charges have been dropped against Bahar Mustafa, after social media comments stating #killallwhitemen were discovered by her critics

9th November 2015

The Go Abroad Fair will see the university’s various international programmes gather under one roof for all interested students

7th November 2015

A year on from the beginnings of Devo Manc, Greater Manchester is undergoing a comprehensive boom

7th November 2015

Last month a student coming home from a night out was raped in Fallowfield, police are appealing for a witness to come forward.

7th November 2015

Hundreds of jobs are at stake as the Open University proposes closures of seven centres around the UK

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7th November 2015

A day before the BMA launch their ballot to strike, Jeremy Hunt announces he is open to negotiate the newly proposed contract, though this itself has not come without criticism

7th November 2015

Known for being sacked for comparing the harms of horse riding with taking ecstasy or cannabis, neuropsychopharmacologist Professor Nutt is the controversial scientist everyone is talking about

7th November 2015

95 per cent of female university students have reported sexual harassment on nights out in a survey by The Tab. This and other research has forced universities to take action to protect their students

6th November 2015

Students and the higher education sector have expressed concern after the government revealed a green paper, which suggests deep and wide ranging changes to the higher education sector

2nd November 2015

Students of at least seven major universities in South Africa have protested the increase in tuition fees, resulting in police intervention and 23 arrests

2nd November 2015

University of Manchester researchers have found that the chemical composition of the human brain can adapt to help alleviate chronic pain

29th October 2015

In order to tackle racial bias, the British government backs plans by UCAS to implement ‘name blind’ university application forms

28th October 2015

Columnist Andrew Wells heads down to Grindsmith in the Great Northern Warehouse on Deansgate to check out the daily grind

28th October 2015

New collaborations and investments with China have been set in occasion of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the UK

28th October 2015

A study has highlighted how limitations in opinion poll methodology and the geographic dispersal of students resulted in their vote being weaker than expected in this year’s election