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Withholding graduation due to library fines “breach of consumer law”

The University, which makes over £200,000 a year from library fines alone, has been warned to change its rules and allow students to graduate even with ‘non-academic debt’

The revising student’s day on a plate

Victor Croci confesses all with this food diary of a stressed student

Students in Manchester shouldn’t be living in fear

Manchester recently topped a poll of most dangerous places for students to live. Following a spate of attacks, Emily Thomas discusses how safe students really are living and working in manchester

The Working Class Movement Library

Annie Muir’s finds some stirring stuff in Salford’s Working Class Movement Library

For and Against – Spotted: Manchester University Library

Tom Danaher and Alex Goldhill argue for and against Spotted: Manchester University Library

Will the libraries survive?

Cuts have left public libraries struggling to survive. Will they make it? And what will it mean if they don’t?

You can buy extension cords for less than a fiver

Recently I have begun, or rather, attempted to begin, research for my dissertation (I won’t bore you with the title) only to discover that it is a task worthy of Sisyphus. But surely, you say, it can’t be that bad – it’s just a lot of reading and note taking. And you would be correct, […]