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 book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, by Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, published in 2009, argues that societies with a more even distribution of wealth do better than those with a wide disparity between the richest and poorest.
The book compared societies with high levels of inequality – Portugal, United States and the UK – with those where the gap between rich and poor is smaller – Japan and Sweden, as well as different states within the USA. The authors argue that those societies with less financial inequality have better health, fewer social problems such as violence, drug abuse, teenage births, mental illness and obesity, and are more cohesive than those with greater inequality.
Kate Pickett, a Professor of Epidemiology in York’s Department of Health Sciences, said: “We are delighted to win such a prestigious national award for our work. To some extent, what we hoped for when we wrote The Spirit Level has happened. There is now a much greater awareness of the effects of inequality among the public, policy makers and politicians. There is more debate and more of an appetite for change. Sadly, however, debate has not yet been translated into action. Austerity measures introduced in the wake of the global financial crisis hit hardest those who least deserve them and regulation is resisted by those who have the most vested interests in maintaining their undeserved wealth.”
Helena Djurkovic, Chief Executive Officer of the Political Studies Association, said: “The Spirit Level was the unanimous choice of our judges. This book was the standout political publication of the year, and the award recognises the importance the book played in defining the political zeitgeist, even at a time of economic crisis.”
The awards ceremony gave awards to a number of prominent political figures, Parliamentarian of the Year went to Ed Balls MP and Politician of the year to Alex Salmond.
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