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10th October 2011

Academics will work unpaid and rely on donations for teaching resources

10th October 2011

Charity praises public response and calls for more student participation

7th October 2011

Is there anything this city doesn’t have?

6th October 2011

NUS promises to make law preventing student occupations ‘politically impossible’

6th October 2011

Birmingham’s Vice President of Education is suspended after protest during Lib Dem conference

6th October 2011

‘The importance of particularly student-festive periods can not be underestimated for clubs which experience business cycles so closely linked to the student calendar.’

4th October 2011

Asim Javed faces an indeterminate prison sentence for attacking two women in Fallowfield and Didsbury. Joshua Carroll, Catriona Gray, Duncan Jaycock and Hannah Tosh report

3rd October 2011

Last year the University of Manchester Students’ Union mandated The Mancunion to feature the stories of students at Al-Najah University, which our students’ union is twinned with. Al-Najah is based in Nablus, in the West Bank. The aim of this is to show the everyday experiences of students in the Palestinian territories. Here is an account given by student Sa’ed Abu Ayash.

2nd October 2011

Police are investigating the collision which left a 13-year-old in hospital

2nd October 2011

Exclusive: Medical students will get the tablets as part of a pilot scheme, the first of its kind in the UK. Ruth Wildman, Khalil Secker and Emily Cant report.

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30th September 2011

Details of the incident are not clear but two women have been charged with assault

29th September 2011

Students on the masters course at Southampton are the first to be taught how to design unmanned aerial vehicles

29th September 2011

A Manchester hospital is to stop giving out formula milk to encourage new mothers to breastfeed

29th September 2011

A man has been arrested for theft after David Schofield died chasing the thief who stole his mobile phone

29th September 2011

More than 20 universities failed to reach target levels for attracting poor students, despite the offer of means-tested awards

29th September 2011

National favourite gets a local remake

28th September 2011

The universities minister and the NUS say the policy will not encourage poorer students to enrol

28th September 2011

But they will have to wait until 2015

27th September 2011

Former party leader has made an attack in new film

27th September 2011

Elected officer in the Birmingham Guild of Students arrested after ‘causing danger to road users’