This week Warwick voted in favour of four out of five motions proposed at the All Student Meeting (ASM), including defending academic staff from casualisation and statute reform, having greater say in the NUS leadership and calling Stagecoach to account. Polls opened last Tuesday and closed at noon today, with...
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Parliamentary candidates for Leamington and Warwick took part in an Education Question Time event on Monday 22 May, in the run up to this months snap General Election. Over 200 people attended the event at Leamington Town Hall, which was chaired by Chief Executive of the National Governance Association, Emma Knights....
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This year, we’ve had the pleasure of speaking to many Warwick startups, but our year’s work would be incomplete without speaking to organisations like WarwickTECH, which helps future founders find their feet. With this in mind, I sat down with Artur Safaryan, who has been with WarwickTECH since its inception...
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“So, who knows what this is?” says James da Costa, as he pulls an old Nokia phone out of his back pocket. The TEDxWarwick audience, including myself, chuckles with nostalgia. James’ social enterprise startup, Mandala Group, uses these pieces of technology to change the world. I was intrigued to find...
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Warwick’s Northern Society organised a minute’s silence for the victims of the attack at Manchester, which took place yesterday at 5pm in the piazza. On the evening of Monday 23 May, a bomb packed with nuts and bolts was detonated near the foyer of an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena,...
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Still reeling from the closure of The Jug and Jester? Then check out our review of its successor, The Old Library.
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Students should focus on their degree and apply for jobs after graduation, the former head of UCAS has said. Mary Curnock Cook, who stepped down as Chief Executive of UCAS at the end of April, urged students and parents to avoid the unnecessary pressure of job-searching whilst still in higher...
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With Donald Trump’s first visit abroad as President, dystopian film recommendations seem as relevant now as they did when he was first elected.
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As Steven Moffat’s departure from Doctor Who becomes all the more imminent, he appears to have upped the audacity of his storytelling. This has given us a fantastic first half of this series’ run, and with ‘Extremis’, we might just have been treated to the best episode yet. The episode...
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In a move that came as a surprise to many, PM Theresa May called a snap General Election, scheduled for June 8th. Here are some of the possible outcomes, and their likely implications. May victory and hard Brexit At the beginning of the year May revealed her Brexit plan, which...
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Warwick’s academic staff overwhelmingly rejected the proposed changes to the University’s employment regulations at an assembly last Friday 12 May. The Statute 24 reform is set to radically simplify the dismissal process for academics. The assembly, which comprised of over 140 members of academic staff, voted 97 percent in favour...
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A study being conducted at the University of Warwick has been given a grant of £29,300 from Epilepsy Research UK. The money was awarded at a reception last Monday, which coincided with National Epilepsy Week. Epilepsy is a neurological disorder caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain, and can...
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The Boar has compiled a list of everything you need to know, from who can vote to where the polling stations will be.
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