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12th March 2014

Join us for the liveblog of the “question time” hustings for the positions of Campaigns and Education Officers.

12th March 2014

Can carefully selected transcendental rhythms really enhance out gastronomic experience?

10th March 2014

Juergen Maier will take up a five year post within the faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

10th March 2014

Digging at Ice Age site ‘Star Carr’ captured public interest in a popular vote

10th March 2014

Imperial College student banned from computing facilities after ‘mining’ online currency, which follows a similar incident at Harvard University

10th March 2014

‘This House Believes Tuition Fees Should Not Increase’ was defeated by student audience in a university debate

10th March 2014

London students call on their Vice Chancellor to ‘resign immediately’

10th March 2014

Deborah Kermath, head caterer at Ashburne Hall, has beaten thousands of contestants to reach the finals BBC Radio 4’s Food and Farming Awards.

10th March 2014

The funding will cover half the tuition fees for any masters course at the Business School

10th March 2014

Peter Brant claims acting middle class will encourage the working class to apply to top universities

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10th March 2014

Slow ticket sales and damages paid to the Union means festival loses money and now has smaller budget for Summer

10th March 2014

– Open letter to Dame Nancy Rothwell calls for fair pay for lecturers
– Marking boycott to start 28th April

7th March 2014

Scientists from the University of Manchester have discovered a new protein that is involved in cancer and inflammation in lung tissue. It is believed the findings of the research, carried out as part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre (MCRC) and published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, could help in the future development of […]

7th March 2014

A student from University College London has been fined £1010 for writing a protest slogan in chalk on the building that houses the office of the university’s Vice-Chancellor. Konstancja Duff, 25, was arrested last July on a protest against the outsourcing of university employees’ contracts after writing “sick pay, holidays, pensions now” in chalk on […]

4th March 2014

As photography becomes the most accessible form of art in our ever-progressing world of technology and social media, is it being enriched or undermined by our incessant documenting and uploading of our experiences? Arts Editor Abbie Roberts isn’t sure…a

3rd March 2014

Emphasis on “different types of success” would help promote gender equality in academia, say proposals

3rd March 2014

Fee increases for international students condemned as “unfair”, by NUS officer

3rd March 2014

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

3rd March 2014

Reports of poor value for money, substandard teaching, and price fixing, may lead to university probe

3rd March 2014

Sixty-eight per cent of students vote for Mancunion editor to be full-time paid job – but Exec ignore result and remove role as part of cuts to make up for £0.5m deficit