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.
Challenging the coalition government’s cuts as the dismantling of “vital public services where there is nothing to replace them”, he condemned the “New Tory marketing fad of the Big Society”. Wooding proposed the use of progressive taxes and investment in green jobs and technology as the geoethical alternative to reducing the deficit, maintaining services and stimulating the economy.
He also mentioned that the York Green Party’s rejected plan to save £5 million from this year’s City of York Council budget would have saved services and prevented about 70 of the proposed job cuts through a “cut hours not jobs policy” and a reduction in the wages of the council’s highest earners.
Wooding, who is a Politics, Philosophy and Economics student at the University of York, promised that the fight to “protect essential services for the most vulnerable” and demand “a fair deal on higher education and accessibility” would continue. He stressed the significance and optimism of the protest movement, “We will be the voice of the voiceless, the voteless, the vulnerable, and we will succeed.”
The rally was held today on Parliament Street at 3pm today against cuts and privatisation.
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