Free online tuition service, the Khan Academy, provides thousands of videos allowing students of any age to develop their knowledge on a range of subjects

Hearty congratulations must go to the University this week after they resolved to pay all of their staff in line with their own pay scales. This means that service staff will be paid at least £7.80 an hour. Given the difficult economic climate and financial difficulties hitting the higher education sector it is particularly commendable […]

If a pint is the equivalent calories of a doughnut, maybe I should rethink my drink

Elyssa Mckeown tells us what bento is and where to get it

Medical students study war, refugee camps, floods and genocides in a new degree course at Manchester University

We’re fast approaching that time in the union calendar where the real fun begins: Student Media Week, obviously. From next Monday the Steve Biko Building will become a shining temple of all things media-related. While we encourage students to get involved with the student paper, radio station and online TV channel all year round, we […]

“after just under five months, they have raised over £27,000.”

Oliver Taylor and Oliver Harman discuss whether Uni Place should be the start of Manchester’s version of Times Square, NY.

A cannabis farm containing 400 plants has been found under a trap door in Greater Manchester. The farm was discovered in Whitefield, Bury by police on the 8th February. 200 mature plants and 200 seedlings were found concealed by a makeshift trap door in the basement of a house on Dales Lane. Inspector Mark commented […]

Vince Cable has dropped plans to charge students for re-paying their student loans early

In some years as many as 90 percent of those caught cheating in exams have been international students

‘MikeJoslin’ finished ahead of ‘Michel Foucault’ and ‘Margaret Thatcher’

Exam procrastination (well, procrastination in general in fact), is something us students are undeniably aware of. With the popularity of sites such as Facebook and Twitter, this has only been further enabled. However, the start of the exam period this year saw University of Manchester student Sean (who asked for his surname not to be […]

Just as we were going to press, news emerged that the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), has decided to allocate universities an extra £1,100 per postgraduate student. The funding increase will only affect those postgraduate students not taking the lowest costing and humanities subjects. Tedious acronyms aside, this is a pretty interesting development […]

RAG raised £500 by organizing a themed night at the SU Bar on the opening night of the superbowl

David Cemeron has appointed Dame Rothwell to co-chair the Council for Science and Technology

London 2012 Olympians to face even more comprehensive drugs testing to catch out the cheats

Last week saw the stock market debut of Facebook, whose initial public offering (IPO) has been surrounded by much hype. Investors purchasing Facebook’s shares will be seeking big returns for what are expected to be fairly long term investments, as is evident with Facebook’s earliest investors such as Accel Partners (who, having invested $12.7m in […]

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a silver lining of its own

Online porn gets a saucy makeover