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.
Article written by Anna Goodman
The latest figures released by Unistats.com, the national student survey run and maintained by UCAS, show that 20% of the Linguistics department’s most recent graduates were employed as ‘Sales Assistants and Retail Cashiers’.
This was the most likely employment prospect for the discipline.
A third year Linguist told the Yorker: "It's really surprising that Linguistics is so lowly rated! Although we are Arts students, we are assessed from day one and it's sad to see that our hard work doesn't seem to reflect in the job market."
Other departments were not far behind. Sociology saw 15% of its former students working in the same sector.
Overall, 60% of these departments' graduates are currently holding positions classed as ‘non-graduate’ jobs. Social Policy and Anthropology also hold similar figures.
This is in contrast to other subjects like Politics, History and English, within which only 5-6% of graduates were classed in the retail category.
Traditionally, ‘Science’ degrees, including Engineering and Economics, provide the highest starting salaries. A civil engineer will start on around £22,000 in their first job. 90% of last year’s Engineering and Technology students are currently in ‘graduate’, that is professional, placements.
Charlie Leyland, Academic and Welfare Officer elect, stressed the importance of these statistics in giving “more weight” to YUSU’s ability to investigate problem areas.
She hopes that the recent findings will be able to “illuminate the areas which can be improved”.
She also told The Yorker that she believes that the findings enable YUSU to work with departments in order to improve the career prospects for York students.
Leyland also suggests that other strategies include “careers information and support given from within departments being carefully looked at”. Further possible improvements will include “department specific careers fairs and talks”.
Department and university-specific statistics can be found at www.Unistats.com
Re: anonymity, one of the earliest cartoons about the internet.
It's important and expected on the internet these days but using anonymous pseudonyms would help distinguish between different "Anonymous" commenters whilst still hiding their true identity.
I don't think there is necessarily a right or wrong. It's just a bit cowardly to hide behind a shadow when making a controversial or potantially unpopular point. If you have a problem or opinion, have the balls to voice that opinion as your own.
comment deleted by the author I think it's probably a sensible choice to remain anonymous to be honest, due those people who choose to launch personalised attacks on others. On the Yorker alone this week I've seen a fair amount of unprovoked Mitch and Chris Northwood bashing. In the wider sense Dan, I think your campaign against Grace Fletcher-Hackwood won't be forgotten in a hurry. I'm just speaking for myself: I don't feel comfortable not posting anonymously.
It's disappointing to see so many people devaluing the degrees of others. How valuable your degree is surely depends on the effort that goes into it, and what the individual's own ambitions are. I don't do sociology but I certainly don't assume that it's more or less difficult than my own subject because it's a more modern degree. There are plenty of people who do more 'traditional' degrees and render them worthless because they put in no effort.
On the flipside, if people couldn't post anonymously or under false user accounts, then the cowards who have been bashing Mitch and myself probably wouldn't do it.
Although that doesn't necessarily make them any less right....
People should feel free to say whatever they like and if the pseudo-anonymity implemented by The Yorker gives them a sense of security that encourages them to do so, then it should be allowed. If they choose to share their identities, so much the better but it shouldn't be forced.
Anyway... these York graduates and their job prospects? 
It's probably most likely that more linguistics students don't go into graduate jobs because the degree only really lends itself to further study or speech therapy. there are very few areas that a linguistics degree is actually relevant to...fine we still have a degree, but employers dont really know much about it and so may not appreciate the value of it.
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