A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
A big part of Lib Dems’ appeal to the student votes during this year’s General Elections was their pledge to “oppose any raising of the cap (on fees)” and to “scrap tuition fees for good”.
In response to the new Foreign Secretary William Hague’s suggestion that the Lib Dem MPs could abstain on future student fees votes, the National Union of Students published an open letter directed to recently elected Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg requesting that the Lib Dems “make good” on their “commitments to work to introduce a fairer alternative to higher fees.”
According to the letter, given the “individual compact” each Lib Dem MP “made with their electorate through the Vote for Students pledge, it is incumbent on them to oppose any attempt to raise the cap on fees”.
President-elect of the National Union of Students Aaron Porter told the Yorker, “Liberal Democrat candidates made an en masse cast-iron commitment by signing NUS' pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative. They were elected to Parliament on that basis and are now duty-bound to honour their promises. It would be intolerable for those MPs to backtrack on their personal pledges to voters.”
When contacted, the Lib Dem Press Office declined to comment on this issue, saying only, “Exact details of the coalition agreement will be published in the full coalition agreement that is currently being produced.”
im afraid i disagree on this, i think scrapping tuition fees altogether will create a huge burden on the government to subsidise this. and this money could be put to better use such as more scholarships and improving university standards and giving direct help to lower class students who actually cant afford to pay for uni. those who can afford it should pay.
Just wanted to post a minor correction, that poster was from their 2005 campaign. Unless they re-used the same billboards they did five years ago, in which case apologies...
Totally agree with #1. And I always thought the Lib Dems were making ridiculous spending promises they couldn't commit to - no surprises that this turned out to be the case.
Lets be clear here: the debate at the conference yesterday was not meant to be a debate about scrapping fees - it was in direct response to the clause in the coalition agreement which stated that Liberal Democrat MPs may abstain on the decisions made by the government in response to the Lord Browne report.
It is expected that the Lord Browne report will propose an increase in fees, to at least £5,000, and possibly up to £14,000 for some degree places. The debate we had yesterday, therefore, was on an amendment, I (Chair of Liberal Youth and a student at York University) submitted to the conference, which was supported by the BYC, NUS and UCU. It called upon Lib Dem MPs and ministers to campaign in the cabinet and in Parliament for no increase in fees. This amendment passed with 99% in the hall and was supported by the negotiating team and the Deputy Prime Minister, reaffirming that Liberal Democrats will do everything they can do to stop fees writing.
There is no evidence to suggest that our fees policy is unaffordable, but it was a clear dividing line between ourselves and the Tories in terms of policy. Therefore, it was always going to be a policy incredibly difficult to get into an agreement this time round. The Liberal Democrats still believe that Higher Education is a right, and not something you should owe the government for. This policy hasn't changed and I hope that with the promise of electoral reform, we will have more seats and more influence in the next Parliament to get it implemented.
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