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How to: Job Interview Makeup

Have a big interview coming up and need help on how to polish off your look? Meg Roberts has you covered

Re-wardrobing your wardrobe

Sarah Kilcourse helps you recycle your wardrobe to stay on trend

Lost skills in fashion: Knitting

Perisha Kudhail gets woolly with knitting

My Style Diary

Sarah Kilcourse gives us a peak at her wardrobe as we follow her style for five days

First transgender woman running for NUS Women’s Officer

During Anna Lee’s campaign, she has faced a great amount of opposition, but remains true to her objectives outlined in her ‘annafesto’

Nigerian student faces deportation to death

Master’s student Luqman Onikosi faces deportation back to Nigeria where he will not receive critical Hepatitis B treatment

Students urged to register to vote after electoral registration shake up

A recent study by the Labour party has revealed that nearly 80,000 voters will be lost due to the new voting sign up rules, with many of them expected to be Labour or left-leaning students

The Garratt

Hope, Sophie and Astrid check out local pub grub at The Garratt

Bierkeller Christmas Party

Our guru of the Corn Exchange Sarah Lambert heads to Bierkeller for the annual ale-fuelled Christmas party

UCAS should include school’s average grades to help poorer students

University and College Union ask average performance of an applicant’s school to be considered by UCAS in attempt to get more disadvantaged students into universities

Stranger leaves £20 for struggling student

A random act of kindness has been applauded widely on social media after a stranger in the SU café donated a Manchester student the £20 she really needed

Kyotoya

With windows covered by flags and neon signs and a range of traditional Japanese music playing, one must not sneak a peek, but immerse themselves in the glowing world of kawaii that awaits inside

PLY

Elena Gibbs spins a 4PLY yarn about the Northern Quarter’s hippest pizza joint

Student to set fire to loan in capitalism protest

In an attempt to highlight the debt that students are getting into, one art student plans a controversial project

Student raped in Fallowfield

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

Report highlights the weakness of the student vote in the general election

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

Café Marhaba

Gina and Kate, two hungry and impoverished students, find their way through a tiny doorway to sample some famous curry delights

24 per cent of students sacrifice learning materials to eat

Nearly a quarter of all students spend less than half of the recommended budget on food, and many sacrifice spending on university materials in order to eat

Medical Students Left Out of Contract Negotiations

Medical students feel their voices are not being heard in the attempt to reject changes to the contracts of junior doctors, but it isn’t stopping them from trying to make a change

Cambridge Master scolds student bullies for “sadistic initiation rites”

A University of Cambridge don has attacked “laddish” undergraduate students after the college’s Freshers week initiation ceremonies this past month