Responding to The Guardian’s assertion that 68.1% of teaching staff at Warwick are on “precarious contracts”, a spokesperson for the university has stated: “They got their figures really, really badly wrong.” Precarious contracts are defined in The Guardian’s article as “zero-hour contracts”, “fixed-term contracts”, “short-term contracts that typically elapse within...
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My knowledge of Billy Bragg comes predominantly from our mutual political party; his political polemics aside, I’m not exactly fluent in his back catalogue. But even if I had been, I doubt I’d have expected what I got from his and Joe Henry’s Shine A Light tour. Bragg explained at...
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Warwick Students’ Union’s (SU) Pride Society have been running their annual Pride Week between 14-20 November, dedicated to raising awareness of issues related to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Undefined and Asexual (LGBTUA+) community. There have been a range of events hosted by Pride and in collaboration with other societies...
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Reports of homophobic hate crimes in Warwickshire have risen by 57% so far this year, the Boar can reveal, following a Freedom of Information request to Warwickshire Police. 44 of the crimes have been reported so far in 2016. For the entire twelve months of 2015, 28 incidents were recorded....
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Our deputy finance editor, Chiara Castrovillari, asks if degrees with heavy workloads mean more money. Many students in Warwick have probably already started thinking about their dream job and how to get there. For different people this means different things – for some the dream job is relaxed working hours...
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Read about the best of Wednesday's BUCS action as Warwick's sports clubs donned their rainbow laces to help kick homophobia out of sport
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Following a recently published investigation by the Guardian into precarious employment at Russell Group universities, it has been found the majority of teaching staff at Warwick are on insecure contracts. The article – the Guardian’s front page headline story on Thursday 17 November – states higher education “is now dominated...
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13th is a powerful documentary that charts the evolution of the American justice system: a system that has seen its black citizens freed from the shackles of slavery only to be cast in the chains of criminals. Released on Netflix in October, 13th considers the ways in which the slavery...
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There is a transition that happens when you become a survivor of sexual violence. Who do you become from that point on? Warwick SU Welfare and Campaigns Officer Chloe Wynne became a leader. I sat down with Chloe in her office, where she revealed how she overcame being sexually assaulted...
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David Yates hails in the post – or past – Potter era with a charming and comedic cast. Most film sequels are met with cynicism – too many franchises have been ruined by that last inconsequential instalment. After the success of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J.K. Rowling’s first...
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Even amidst the current focus on on-campus sexual violence that has been brought about by recent reports, there will still be students who will become victims of sexual violence before the changes can be implemented. Current measures in place to tackle sexual abuse at Warwick include: speaking to personal or...
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With Brexit, US presidential election, and the Basel III rules on the horizon, European banks are facing a period of turbulence. Europe is currently witnessing record low interest rates as well as close to anaemic growth, the combination of which casts a gloomy shadow on the profitability of banks. Nevertheless,...
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When you are given the opportunity to take a year abroad, it is solely for your own academic benefit, right? That is, at least, how the year is advertised; and opportunity to improve your language skills, to study in another country, to learn from other institutions with different ideas and...
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