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.
Ben Martin, a third-year History student, died on 1 January in his home. He was very active within his college, Alcuin, as well as in the university as a whole.
YUSU have said: “The thoughts of all students will be with Ben's family and friends, as we look to remember the good times; he'll be missed by many people across the university.”
Martin’s funeral will be held on Wednesday, January 14th. Alcuin college has organised coaches for students who wish to attend, please email Alcuin College Administrator Sheila Ashton on sa13@york.ac.uk.
His family have asked that donations be sent to the Karuna Trust, instead of flowers. These can also be sent to Ashton.
On 5th January, YUSU released a statement regarding last term's censorship of Vision, as previously reported by The Yorker.
YUSU Societies and Communications Officer Rory Shanks explained that the JCRC Chairs review was removed because “some of the content contained within it breached various basic standards of journalism, as well as guidance issued by the Press Complaints Commission”.
On behalf of YUSU, Shanks offered an apology “to anyone that may have been affected by the release of the initial version of the paper”. He also assured students “that steps will now be undertaken to ensure that such a situation does not occur again”.
Following clarifications regarding the campaign rules in force during the second elections, GSA returning officer Matt Beacham has disqualified the elected President Luke Martin.
According to Beacham, Martin contravened the Rules and Regulations for Campaigning which states that candidates "cannot use any form of electronic media to promote your campaign". Martin had set up a Facebook group to generate support. This group was also set up before campaigning was allowed.
Martin told The Yorker he felt his disqualification was "unfair and a demonstration of the problems inherent in the GSA's electoral process". He added: "I was also not told of my disqualification either by email or in person, and was given no chance to defend myself." He does not know whether he will run again.
These elections were the second in a row to have their results annulled by the GSA. In the first elections Martin was defeated by Rui Huang, but the elections were annulled due to some students not being able to vote.
A new election will now be called for some time this term. The GSA committee have said they “fully understand why Matt Beacham has taken the decision that he has [and] fully support Matt Beacham in this decision and thank him for his hard work and dedication during these elections”.
They also said they “would like to extend our deepest apologies to both Rui Huang and Luke Martin, as well as to all graduate students, for the oversights that led to this situation” and added that both Democracy and Governance working groups have been set up to ensure that occurrences of this nature never happen again.
The University has retained its top ten research ranking in the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), published on 18th December. York ranked eighth out of 159 higher education institutions.
The university scored highly throughout all of the academic departments. 12 out of the 22 departments featured in the top ten nationally. According to the RAE York has among the highest proportion of research activity of world-leading 4* status of any UK university.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Cantor said: "These are outstanding results which underscore the consistently high quality of research at York. They are a tribute to the academic rigour, scholarship and professionalism of our staff."
The report is good news for the university's funding, with more than £1.5 billion allocated to universities depending on their rankings in the RAE. The amount awarded to York will be announced the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in March.
As reported in the York Press, a formal planning application for the barrier scheme has now been submitted to the City of York Council. More than 100 people have voiced their concern about the proposals.
The plans would see barriers placed at four different locations, where they would let 33 passengers through every minute, and contain technology to prevent people from tailgating behind other passengers who have paid their fare.
However planners will now have to take into account the large quantity of complaints and the two separate campaign groups which have been set up against the measure.
National Express East Coast Company, who run the station, have met the criticisms stating that the scheme will cut fare-dodgers and allow the money saved to be put back into improving the station facilities.
FTR have announced that they will run the 4U service between the university and the railway station for the spring term.
Buses will run for an extra hour from Monday to Thursday, finishing at 3.15am instead of 2.15am as it was last term. A special £1.50 single ticket will also be introduced on the 4U buses, and will only be available to students with a valid student ID card.
On 4th January, the First bus group announced increases for most of its fares. However, the £2 return for students travelling between the university and the city centre will continue until at least July 2009.
How on earth did this http://www.nouse.co.uk/2009/01/12/yusu-reveal-name-of-new-langwith-venue/ not make it into the roundup!
#1: bear in mind this article is part 1 of 2, it might be in the second part of the roundup.
I don't see the point in automatic barriers at the station... surely it's just costing money and means that people arriving late to the station are more likely to miss their train? And with York traffic it's extremely commonplace...
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