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.
Wong was sentenced to 6 months for each charge, which were to run concurrently. He will not face any actual jail time after pleading guilty to 17 charges of making child pornography between July 15, 2008 and March 19, 2009. If he is caught committing these types of crimes again under his suspension he will most likely receive jail time. He also received 8 month supervision order and is registered on the sex offenders list for the next 7 years.
Wong, a Singaporean Ministry of Education (MOE) teaching scholar who had worked in secondary schools in Singapore has also been disqualified from working with children.
With regards to Wong’s charges the University of York told The Yorker ‘It is a matter of great regret that a member of the University has been convicted of these criminal offences. Jonathan Wong has been suspended since his plea of Guilty at his initial appearance before York Magistrates. On the recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor, University Council has permanently excluded Jonathan Wong on grounds of gross misconduct.’
"was sentenced to 6 months for each charge" - "pleading guilty to 17 charges" - no jailtime. Not sure I understand each bit of the article correctly.
Seems very lenient indeed - but all of that is less concerning than the fact he worked in secondary schools. Not good.
It's nice to see a bit of journalistic integrity in this case, rather than the shitrag "FOREIGN PAEDOPHILE INVADES STUDENT BODY THROUGH EVIL LIES" approach which some other campus media outlets have taken.
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