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 local waste management firm offers a £15 incentive for every tonne of waste that is successfully recycled. Chris Pagan, the Yorwaste account manager, has been in discussion with the students’ union to explore new ways of making it easier to recycle material, and thereby reduce the amount of un-recyclable material that the university produces year on year for the duration of the contract. He said ‘There are 400 normal-sized wheelie bins and 330 larger bins dotted across the university and we are also looking to introduce co-mingled recycling boxes, which will mean the students will not need to segregate their waste.”
Tim Ngwena, President of YUSU, said that the scheme had the support of the union, adding that ‘‘currently 57 per cent of all recycling currently carried out at the university is done by students and we hope this will increase even further with the longer-term aim being to ensure no waste generated by the university goes to landfill.”
YUSU’s Environment and Ethics officer David Clarke was impressed by the exciting ideas that Yorwaste had to improve the service they are offering to students and said that he would be ‘working closely with the University and Yorwaste over the next few months to ensure that students are offered a 21st century waste management service that's both convenient and environmentally sustainable’.
Yorwaste is going to extend its services to collect general, non-recyclable, waste that currently goes to landfill, a service formerly provided by City of York Council. The firm already collects recyclable materials, including paper, plastic, glass and cans from the university.
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