A recent Warwick graduate, Stephen Pithouse is in the process of finishing the designing and manufacturing of a new robotics interface. Earlier this week, Stephen graduated with a first class degree in Engineering and is going on to take up a job with Industrial Automation company FANUC. The interface that...
Read More
A banner condemning an injunction on occupations at Warwick was unveiled in a one-person protest at a graduation ceremony on the afternoon of Saturday 23 July. Connor Woodman, a Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) graduate, unveiled a banner which read: “Students Against Injunctions” as he went up to collect his...
Read More
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...
Read More
It has been announced that the brand new Teaching and Learning building will have free charging lockers available for phones, laptops and tablets. The new building will also have premiere 500 and 250 seat lecture theatres with various other seminar and social spaces for students, and advanced technology. Construction work...
Read More
An emergency demo against the Higher Education (HE) Bill was held during the Bill’s second reading earlier this week at Parliament Square. The HE Bill looks to implement ways in which market competition in the higher education sector could be increased. It also allows for institutions to raise their tuition...
Read More
This year's Open championship offered free camping and cheap tickets - as Jonny Hall found, this proved excellent value for money.
Read More
Changes to University House, including the movement of the University’s Executive Office – housing Vice Chancellor Stuart Croft and other senior university management – and learning grid this summer will cost £250,000, it has emerged. This forms part of plans to make the senior management team “more accessible and visible...
Read More
The CS:GO Lotto scandal has been blowing up over the last few weeks. Joe Clarke takes a look at what it means for gamers and Youtubers moving forward.
Read More
Call off the trolls; Paul Feig’s female-led reboot of the 1980s film is great fun and, dare I say it, better than the original. Back in October 2014, when Paul Feig confirmed he was making a reboot of Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman’s 1984 supernatural action comedy, it took less than two...
Read More
They say there is a Shakespeare quote for pretty much every situation and emotion – but how about the university experience? This is a collection of Shakespeare quotes for those times when a reaction gif or a plethora of emojis would usually be employed to describe the highs and lows...
Read More
By all accounts the last few weeks has been something of a tumultuous time in British politics; a veritable shitstorm that, as every vaguely sentient organism has pointed out by now, makes the likes of Game of Thrones and House of Cards look like an episode of Teletubbies by comparison....
Read More
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...
Read More
