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.
The university has risen from 14th in the overall League Table published in The Independent today.
The ranking is determined through a combination of factors: student satisfaction, research, entry standards, student/staff ratio, academic services spending, facilities spend, good honours, prospects and completion.
Oxford led the table, beating Cambridge and replacing their rivals in the top spot.
York topped the Yorkshire Universities, with its nearest Yorkshire competitor being Sheffield, which was placed 26th. York's Lancastrian rivals have risen from 19th to 10th.
The University said of the results: "We are pleased by our improvement in the Good University Guide, and we are particularly pleased that many of our departments have achieved top ten positions in the subject league tables including Nursing, Social Policy and Social Work, Psychology, Music, Computer Science, Chemistry, History and Linguistics."
The Top 10:
Subject by Subject Guide (2009 Rank follows subject name)
York made the Top 20 per subject in several subjects.
Is yours one of them?
Humanities
Sciences
Professions
Special Interest Subject
Compsci's still down from when I started... used to be 2nd behind Cambridge. Turns out it all went to shit as soon as I got here 
Looks like facilities spending letting us down again, if you change the weighting so it doesn't count, we move up to 9! (and we all know facilities spending is a rubbish metric, because Hes East is skewing it. Right?)
Lancaster above us?! Does this mean we will be hearing all the traditional calls shouted at them about 2 E's and an HND at roses? Oh the shame...
"Lancastrian rivals, Lancaster"
Was I the only person to be amused by that?
comment deleted by the author Is there any particular reason the linguistics department doesn't deserve a ranking?
You can't really make that kind of statement without substantiating it.
why should subjects not deserve any sort of ranking? what subject do you do #5?
comment deleted by the author I would guess linguistics. My linguist friends often complain about the department, including brilliantness such as scheduling an away day to the beach for all the departmental staff on the day essays are due in and the first day of exams, screwing over anyone who needs last minute help...
That said, if York are number 7 for Language and Linguistic Science, think what the other Unis are like? 
ah the linguistics department, such an organised bunch. That said, some brilliant teaching.
was #5 questining the department or the subject itself?
Nope #4, it tickled me also
When I started York was number 7 and English was number 2...have we dragged it down that much??
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