Grammar schools are a contentious issue, and a recurring one at that. They’re marred by accusations of elitism, anti-meritocracy and exploitation by upper-middle class parents who want to avoid private school fees. The expansion of grammar schools is once again back in the news, and once again I feel that grammar schools are being...
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A recent paper published by researchers at Warwick has found a correlation between social media hate-speech and the prevalence of violent hate-crime.
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In light of Coventry being named the City of Culture 2021, Mary Francis explores how Coventry is a source of literary inspiration.
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Casyo Johnson and Karl Wilson, the 28-year-olds known together as the South London rap duo Krept and Konan, have been continually making music for the past 12 years. Introduced to one another in 2005 through a mutual friend, the pair joined a gang in Gipsy Hill known as ‘gipset’, and...
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By now climate change has become part of wider political discourse, yet there are many aspects that still go unacknowledged. One of these aspects is the many-faceted effect that tourism has on the planet. International travel is on the rise like never before, exponentially growing as a global market. Uncontrolled...
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Clelia Furlan discusses the environmental impact of clothes. The most relevant recent trend in the clothing and textile industry can be summarized as more clothes for less. The ‘fast fashion’ model, notoriously employed by Spanish multinational Inditex (owner of Zara and seven other chains) and then adopted by most major retailers,...
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Coventry to celebrate its future as the 2021 UK City of Culture and open a new University Science and Health building.
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A murder story told in reverse time makes 'Once Removed' another inventive and compelling episode of Inside No 9.
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On the phone, Lucy Porter is as chatty as she appears on stage. It doesn’t surprise me: the majority of her fans say that her shows are enjoyable because the whole experience feels like simply having a talk with her. She confessed to me that the best bits of her...
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Jo Johnson has lost his position as universities minister following the appointment of Toby Young to the new higher education watchdog.
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Two memories come to mind when I think of my Higher Education and Colonialism. The first is a tutor in my first year immediately shutting down the question regarding the benefits of colonialism without any discussion. The second is of a Singaporean flat mate, also from my first year, informing...
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As the BBC's McMafia hits screens, we look back at changing (and non-changing) portrayals of Russians on TV.
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£3.8 million of funding has been raised for the University of Warwick spin-out Medherant's revolutionary transdermal drug-delivery device.
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