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.
Debate was raised as essay-buying students could not only be guilty of plagiarism but possibly also fraud.
The National Union of Students (NUS) said that unions should support their students in cases.
The debate was raised by YUSU President Anne-Marie Canning, who raised the question as to whether students involved in the cheating scandal should be supported by the union.
In most cases of plagiarism students are represented at a misconduct hearing by a YUSU Officer. Their presence is usually to explain any mitigating circumstances which may aid the students appeal to the board.
YUSU Exec, a policy-making body made up of all YUSU Officers, decided there will be a continuation of support until a new policy could be voted on at the upcoming Union General Meeting (UGM).
They also decided that they will support any students’ claims whilst they remain at the University.
The company who sold the essays, UK Essays.com, maintain that they were sold as model answers and not as submittable essays.
The revelation came as part of The Yorker exclusive which last week revealed that 142 students at York had bought essays.
Plagiarism is detected at a departmental level so those who bought essays may never be caught.
The essays came with a £1,000 guarantee that they would never be discovered as plagiarised.
YUSU Exec does not make policy. Policy is made by UGMs (which every student in the university can vote on), interpreted by YUSU Senate (a bigger committee that includes all college chairs) and is implemented by Exec and by individual YUSU officers. What Exec sometimes does end up discussing is how to go about implementing existing policies. 
.... the smiley in the above post is supposed to be a nice happy smiley not a stupid smug looking smiley. Why can't you edit posts on this thing??
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