Hattie Rowan reports this week’s news nuggets, which include the Role Models Guide launch, the Aviva women’s cycle tour and the Regius Professorship awarded to Warwick Manufacturing Group Role Models Guide launched at Warwick The University of Warwick has launched Role Models Guide: Celebrating LGBTUA+ at Warwick – a guide...
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Rachel Sandby-Thomas CB has just been appointed the University of Warwick’s next Registrar. She will begin her new role at the start of the 2016/17 academic year. The roles of a university Registrar include student registration and enrolment, handling student records, and advising students, faculty and staff on academic matters....
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It is simply hopeless. We have seen this story play out in the same way every time, yet another iniquitous burden is placed on the back of students. The more vocal among us launch campaigns, protests and demonstrations – summoning a potent paroxysm of passion that soon fizzles out to...
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This year’s Sabbatical Team have recently been shortlisted for ‘Officer Team of the Year’ at this year’s NUS awards. The award category looks at how effectively the team has represented the views of Students’ Union (SU) members. It also bears in mind how the team has worked together to benefit...
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Here are this weeks global student stories. We have stories about Turkish academics, the high rate of students studying abroad in Australia, sexual assault at Stanford University and increased surveillance at Wuchang University of Technology in China. USA: Stanford sexual assault On 2 June, Brock Turner, a Stanford University student...
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Why would anybody want to watch student-made films? Student films have neither the budget nor the technique of the films we are used to watching on television or cinemas. The camera is a bit too shaky, the acting a bit too flimsy, the lighting a bit too dark to be...
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The Boar TV writers tell us about their favourite shows about or set in a university Fresh Meat Jack Prevezer Arriving at university, you swiftly realise that it isn’t all about tequila, threesomes and ‘third degree gurns’. Rather, the experience is captured by writing 3000 words at 3am, while intravenously pumping...
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With eight matches in three days, we just had to dedicate this edition of the weekend preview to Euro 2016. James Roberts picks his top three clashes.
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The gender pay gap has long been an issue, especially within the highest pay grades. Recent action taken by the University of Essex to eliminate this gap at a professorial level, by increasing females’ salaries, raises questions as to whether one-off salary hikes are a fair or even effective solution...
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A vigil organised by Warwick Pride was held at Warwick Arts Centre last night as an act of remembrance and solidarity to those in the LGBT+ community who have lost their lives due to intolerance. The vigil was sparked by recent events in Orlando, where 49 people were killed at...
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Couple of weeks back, I saw Creed – the best Rocky picture in years, and one that toed the fine line between carving out its own niche and harking back to the original. This is a necessary balance to strike to appeal to old fans as well as a newer...
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Over the past few years, the Pearl of the Adriatic has become more famously the Pearl of the Student. It is almost impossible to scroll through your Facebook and not see a group ‘squad’ photo at the city walls, or an unnecessarily hipster and over-filtered picture of the harbour. With...
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Although the weather might try to convince you otherwise, the summer holidays are fast approaching. Whether you’re spending the summer sunbathing by the pool, commuting and working, or even just Netflix-binging and doing absolutely nothing in your bedroom, the summer holidays call for some good reads and luckily I have a book...
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