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.
Students are set to face an increase in library fines after they were increased due to apparent student feedback.
Fines have increased for the first time in a decade, due to alleged feedback which asked for harsher punishments for those who do not return books on top.
No-one who returns or renews items on time need pay fines.
The Library service tried to play down the price charges by saying that, "No-one who returns or renews items on time need pay fines."
They also said: "Fine rates have not changed for over 10 years and recent student feedback has asked us to increase them, so that more items are returned on time."
Students now face the following charges should they encounter fines:
The move is set to cause further annoyance to students, and is the latest price-rise to hit campus. Anger was also voiced after the news that the minimum fee that societies can charge to their members is £4.
Many societies felt that this affected their membership tally after Saturday's Freshers Fair, although many new stalls, including York Law Society, which before the fair had a minimum number of members, left with around 100 paid members.
These charges are seen by many as another price rise, after last years' rise in NUS cards, which now cost all students £10.
I'd love to see the actual results of the survey that said students want to see higher fines... What was the sample size? What type of person gives feedback on the library?
I want higher prices for bus tickets too!
Oooh! And tuition fees!
So basically, they surveyed people pissed off about requesting books and having them come back late.
Does anyone edit this newspaper? The journalism is shockingly bad for something written by undergraduates at a top university. The second paragraph repeats the first and unnecessarily uses the word "alleged" with reference to student feedback. If the writer didn't believe that such feedback existed she should have asked to see evidence of it.
It is entirely credible that serious students would support a rise in fines, since the late return of books can be a considerable inconvenience.
Increasing fines for the first time in a decade is hardly a scandal that merits sensationalist treatment.
The above comment reveals that the author does not know what sensationalism is.
right on, comment 6.
Is it just me or has there been a rash of corrective comments in the same vein as comment 5 recently? I think the Yorker may have a Disgruntled of York of its very own ^_^
To author of comment 5:
If you have comments or corrections relating to editing or grammar could you please use the feedback form at the bottom of each page, so as not to clutter the article comments with off-topic complaints.
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