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.
A decision was made last year that cards should carry relevant identity information, although The Yorker has learnt that continuing students will have to pay for the updated cards.
There has been continued outrage from students that their university card is not accepted as age ID as it does not carry a certified logo.
The new cards were installed in October 2007, but Freshers cards were issued in September, meaning the current intake narrowly missed out on the new card.
YUSU President Anne-Marie Canning has confirmed that the plan to include a date of birth on every new student's university card will go ahead, meaning the card will be an acceptable form of age ID.
However, current students will have to pay to replace their university card for the newer version in order to benefit from the change.
The usual price for a replacement university card is £10 and university staff have said that they expect the price of a new card to be the same.
Many international students have complained about the current system of age identification in bars and nightclubs in York.
President of the International Students Association Rosie Li is happy about the introduction of the new university cards and said: "I think having our date of birth on the university cards would be really convenient for international students."
I guess it's easier to just ask for a passport since most people don't know what a real ID card looks like from most countries, let alone a fake one.
International students have been turned away from various establishments in the city centre because it was claimed that their country's ID card was not sufficient proof of age and that a passport was the only acceptable form.
This system has been criticized by international students, who have been unhappy about the risk of losing their passports on a night out.
Another issue which has been raised is the level of inconsistency, even in the same bars on different nights. One barman told The Yorker: "Some staff accept foreign ID, some don't."
Bar and nightclub owners have also expressed concerns about accepting national ID cards, citing falsification as one of the main difficulties.
"I guess it's easier to just ask for a passport since most people don't know what a real ID card looks like from most countries, let alone a fake one."
Marie Thouaille's blog on the subject of ID can be found here
I have a new card with my DOB on it, and no bouncers in town will accept it as ID anyway.
Hopefully they will when everyone has one, at the moment its too new, they are used to not excepting university cards. Still I wouldn't be surprised if they just start saying they are too easy to fake.
Indeed, bouncers won't accept NUS cards as age ID, so I guess it's to be expected they won't accept York cards either. Hell, many places won't even accept York cards as proof as you're a student (mainly because they're issued every year, and my card is now considerably faded and says 2005/06 on), compounded by as YUSU refusing to provide us with student cards unless we want to pay £10 (that's a personal annoyance of mine)...
I don't know many people losing sleep over this issue.
I imagine an international student who loses their passport on a drunken night out because bouncers didn't accept any other form of ID would do, #4.
Northwood, I think in that case their more immediate concern should be their idiocy, and perhaps the time without a form of ID will allow them to soberly ponder their actions.
comment deleted by the author I can tell you have a belting sense of humour. I bet the room just lights up when you walk into it...
The trouble with passports is that they're a stupid size to carry round, especially if you're a guy, they're more likely to fall out of your pocket or be nicked out of it. Also, they're a lot more important to international students than they are to us natives, as well as being more expensive to replace.
As I said in the blog, I'm not quite sure why they can't accept EU driving licenses - mainly they're the same as UK ones except with a different country code in the top corner.
At the end of the day it's up to the local security firms to decide in conjunction with the venues they staff. Still, no matter how official it is at York, unless they've got a hologram the cards are and will continue to be incredibly easy to fake meaning that they won't generally be accepted.
Hurray!
This is a massive issue for international students. I'm from Gibraltar and have a Gibraltarian ID Card and Driving Lisence. And I have real trouble getting them accepted as ID anywhere. Gibraltar is within the EU and is even a part Britain for f***'s sake!
This has mainly been introduced so people have an accepted form of ID at campus bars and events, not for town. But even then, it is definitely an improvement.
Despite what #4 seems to think, this will make a big difference for a lot of students, and we've got YUSU and the ISA to thank for it.
If it doesn't have the PASS holographic logo it won't be accepted, as simple as that. I have a Trading Standards approved ID card given to me in school by the West Yorkshire police - not accepted at Toffs, Lendal, etc for its lack of PASS logo
If someone is really stuck with ID and has a driving licence you can easily convert it to a UK one (DVLA). Of course it costs a little (£20-30) but then you are good and done with it. What is more, you have a new full and CLEAN driving licence (that is even if you had a heavy foot before changing licence and a couple of claims) 
The catch is that you need to have a place of residence in the UK.
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