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.
York is one of just nine universities across the UK selected to take part in a pilot funding programme of postgraduate scholarships, reflecting its excellence and academic rigour in the field of humanities.
The Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities will be in three disciplines - history, literature and languages - with each university being offered three Wolfson Scholarships, one for each of the disciplines. In total over £2 million is being allocated over the first year for 27 scholarships at the nine universities.
The scholarships will be awarded to outstanding students who demonstrate the potential to make an impact on one of these fields and to be future academic leaders. They will be awarded solely on merit to students aspiring to an academic career.
The University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Cantor said: “I am delighted that the Wolfson Foundation has recognised the importance of supporting the humanities.
"The University of York has invested very heavily in the humanities over the last ten years and the Wolfson postgraduate scholarships will reflect our mutual and profound commitment to the humanities in these challenging times for higher education.”
Paul Ramsbottom, Chief Executive of the Wolfson Foundation, said: “High quality research in the humanities is of critical importance to British society. The announcement of this pilot scheme reflects our concern about the effect of undergraduate debt on numbers of students continuing to postgraduate research.
"We are also acutely aware of pressures on funding in the humanities. The hope is that many students funded through this programme will be future academic leaders.”
The first awards are for students beginning their doctoral study at the start of the academic year 2012-13.
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