Here are just a selection of global student stories from Summer 2016, from America, Afghanistan, Tanzania and South Africa. America – Students protest in solidarity with employees affected by worker’s rights abuse American University students in Washington, D.C. are to stage multi-day protests and sit-ins to stand in solidarity with...
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Recent figures obtained by the Guardian show that the number of students seeking counselling services at university has increased by 50% within the last five years. University counselling services are subsequently faced with an increasing pressure as demand for the service grows. The Guardian reported that some counselling services are...
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"We'll have you breaking boards and taking names in no time." Warwick Tae Kwon Do don't mess around, whether they're winning medals or drinking tea...
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Warwick Students’ Union (SU) are petitioning the university to create a lecture-free Freshers’ Week, with a management meeting on the issue taking place this week. At the management meeting will be members of the university senior management team, heads of department and faculty board members. This petition is a major...
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Students from across 25 campuses are planning rent strikes against an almost 20% increase in rent prices in two years. On the weekend of 16 September, workshops were held in preparation. Student rent has increased by 18% in two years across the UK, according to the Guardian, fuelling fears that...
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Figure Skating is stunning to see - joining Warwick's very own Figure Skating Club enables you to try it out for yourself...
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Kelsey’s Bar in Leamington Spa, a favourite amongst Warwick University students, is said to have closed for refurbishments. The nature of the works being carried out is currently unconfirmed, as is the eventual date when Kelsey’s will re-open for business. A ‘fire sale’ was held on Friday the 23rd of...
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Captain Fantastic is about a man living the American Libertarian dream: him, his wife and their six children all live in an idyllic forest, meditating and rock-climbing by day, reading Middlemarch and quantum mechanics at night (in lieu of going to an actual school). They grow and hunt their own...
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Let's be honest, you've wanted to try playing Quidditch ever since watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aged six. Here's your chance...
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Joint research by the University of Warwick and Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Centre (SYSUCC) means that a deadly cancer, occurring mainly in China, could be more effectively treated. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), is a cancer of the head and neck which is extremely widespread in China. Researchers at Warwick’s Department of...
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This isn’t the first time Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have done a musical documentary, but proceedings are very, very different this time round. Whereas their previous film, 20,000 Days on Earth, was a surreal, irreverent and fantastically inventive look into the biography of one of the strangest and...
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I came across a very interesting question on the website ‘Quora’. It read like this: “In the future, will China be a democracy or will it remain a one-party system?” To answer the question, it burdens a critical examination of democracy in the West.
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The University of Warwick has been ranked amongst the top 100 universities in a major league table. On the 21 September, The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17 were released. Warwick was placed 82nd top university in the world. The ranking also places Warwick as 10th best university...
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