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Photo Diary app wins York prize

Friday, 20th January 2012

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.

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Students warned about loans scam

Thursday, 19th January 2012

YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.

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Queen Comes to York

Wednesday, 18th January 2012

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.

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Flooding Triggers Network Outage On Eve Of Exams

Saturday, 14th January 2012

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.

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Academic's York doctorate removed

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Friday, 7th March 2008
The dean of Durham University Business School, who got his postgraduate degree from the University of York, has been sacked after it was found that he plagiarised part of his thesis.

Dr Tony Antoniou had his D.Phil, which he was awarded in 1987, removed by the University of York when allegations of plagiarism were upheld. He has been sacked by Durham University for "misconduct".

The introduction to his thesis begins identically to that of a paper by an American academic. Much of it was lifted directly from a paper which was written in 1983 by an American student and two Israeli academics.

A spokeswoman for Durham University said: "A disciplinary tribunal met on 8th February to consider two charges of misconduct against Tony Antoniou.

"Those charges comprised an allegation of plagiarism relating to a research article, which had been investigated through Durham's internal procedures, and issues relating to the withdrawal, following its own investigation of plagiarism, by the University of York D.Phil qualification awarded to Antoniou in 1987.

"The tribunal upheld the charges, concluded that the misconduct concerned amounted to 'good cause' for dismissal under Statute 39 and recommended dismissal.

"The vice-chancellor has acted in accordance with this recommendation and Tony Antoniou is no longer employed by the university."

Prof Antoniou joined Durham in 1998 as Professor of Finance and was chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance.

He became Dean of the Business School in January 2002 when the Department of Economics and the Business School were merged.

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