It’s a label near synonymous with our university – doubtless, it will have influenced your decision to enrol to some degree. It’s often the flaw we have to most rigorously defend from our more privileged friends who go to Leeds, Manchester, Bristol or any of the other universities that manage...
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Whenever I mention to anyone that most of my relatives have had arranged marriages, it’s almost always met with shock or with pity. I get the impression that people see it as a massive shame – the result of a sad lack of liberty in my culture compared to theirs....
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Despite an increase in the numbers of women and people of ethnic minorities joining academia, very few become professors or managers according to the Equality Challenge Unit. The Unit’s Equality in Higher Education Staff Statistical Report 2016 found that less than 3 in 10 professors are women or people of...
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More and more newspapers are training robots to tell data-based stories about sports, business and breaking news. Engineered by the Washington Post’s team, ‘Heliograf’ technology was used to produce short updates on Olympic events for the paper’s live blog and twitter account @WPOlympicsbot. Reports suggest the Post will use the...
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1965 was the year the University of Warwick came into being, and the year that the Race Relations Act was passed in the United Kingdom to outlaw the discrimination of any person on the “grounds of colour, race, or ethnic or national origins” in public places. From the day the...
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The month after the UK’s vote for Brexit saw a 57% rise in recorded hate incidents compared with the same period in 2015. A Freedom of Information request revealed that 14 hate incidents were reported in the month after the EU referendum on June 23, compared with only eight incidents...
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A research project just discovered a new gene, NEK1, which has been confirmed as one of the most common contributors to the development of Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS is a neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling everyday muscle movement. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS...
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“Silence in the face of any sort of oppression is taking the side of the oppressor,” said Ayo Akinrele. The second-time sabbatical officer at Liverpool Hope University organised a march in Liverpool last month, which was partially in memory of Mzee Mohammed, an eighteen year-old black man who died in...
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Warwick University’s week of graduation ceremonies saw mixed reactions to inclusion of the UK’s national anthem, a plea from the vice-chancellor for graduates to learn from Brexit, and a student’s gesture of protest against Warwick’s ruling against sit-in demonstrations. BREXIT Vice-chancellor Stuart Croft, conducting his first round of graduation ceremonies...
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University of Iceland lecturer and Warwick alumnus Guðni Jóhannesson was elected President of Iceland in late June. At the age of 48, he is the youngest President the country has ever elected. Jóhannesson won with just over 39% of the public vote and is set to take office as Iceland’s...
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"Pursuing a beautiful body and pursuing a strong, fit body are often made to seem mutually exclusive for women, whereas for men those two goals can coincide."
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Candidate for the position of Warwick Students' Union (SU) sports officer Cecilia Jastrzembska has been disqualified for producing her campaign leaflets outside of the SU.
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An almost equal number of female and male students voted for Warwick SU's all white male sabbatical team last year, revealed a Freedom of Information request made by the Boar.
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