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.
Free coach places for the National Demonstration ‘Fund out Future, Stop Education Cuts’ in London, taking place on the 10th November have attracted more than 500 students so far. The demonstration has been organised by the National Union of Students (NUS) and the University and College Union (UCU) in response to Lord Browne’s review proposing to remove the cap off university tuition fees.
YUSU offered 150 free coach seats down to London, 70 of which were available online at www.yusu.org/shop with the rest being available from The Student Centre Reception at YUSU from midday today. The only requirement was a £10 deposit, which would be returned once you are on the coach.
After the initial 150 places had been taken up, YUSU has continued to release places on the coaches in a single batch of 50 online, but these will cost £13 and will not be refunded.
As well as YUSU offering free and subsidised coach journeys to London, the various departments within the university are backing their students’ right to participate in the demonstration. In a letter to all member of his department David Atwell, Head of English and Related Literatures stated that ‘classes will proceed as normal but on this occasion we are prepared to be flexible’.
This is in response to a memo from the Deputy Vice Chancellor to all departments and Chairs of Board of Studies, which asked that departments to show leniency towards students wanting to participate in the National Demonstration.
Aaron Porter, NUS President, hopes that the demonstration will affect the decision made by the coalition government as the protest is taking place in London. He has been very vocal against the rise in tuition fees, which he describes as an “attempt to mask a predicted 80% cut to the teaching of university courses and represents the end to publically funding degrees in England.” He goes on to say, “students will not settle for paying more for their education and receiving less in return.”
Numerous university officials have voiced their opinion to the media, Steve Smith president of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of Exeter University, told the Guardian that universities face the deepest cuts of any publicly funded activity, ushering in the most radical changes to higher education in five decades, which could see the closure of "swaths of institutions".
In line with the national demonstration YUSU has branded week 5 as ‘fairer funding week.’ Coaches are scheduled to leave York at 6.30am on the Wednesday. The National demo is due to start at 11.30am and is planned to end at 3pm.
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