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.
Alexios Mantzarlis, President of the Club Politics, Economics and Philosophy, told The Yorker that the societies which have already been contacted within Britain “have been positive about the idea”.
Long lasting links are already in place with a Swedish society. Meetings between the two take place at their annual Ball.
PEP is not commonly offered worldwide, however Matzarlis is hoping to establish links with International Relations Clubs and other related subjects.
Matzarlis recognises the project is a lengthy one but hopes that by the end of his term “there will be a relatively solid network set up”.
The aims of the project include:
Matzarlis hopes the project ‘will give [PEP students] the chance to get even more out of their time at York.’ As well as benefiting the university and student body as a whole.
And to think people call them pretentious...
It is really pretentious Adam. You are right. Which bits do you think are the most pretentious? Enlighten us...
crabby...
I suppose the pretentious part is that some people make bold to care about their degrees.
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