A new study published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) on 12 June revealed that a majority of students want universities to take a harsher approach for drug dealers and users.
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“It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen”. “I want a parade like the one in France”, were the words that came out, in an almost childlike manner, when Donald Trump was courted by Emmanuel Macron’s military show on July 14th last year. A “relation spéciale”, the French...
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Matthew Dale explores the possibility of using psychedelic drugs as a treatment for certain mental health conditions, such as PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
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Love Island is back! Once again Twitter is full of opinions, phrases like “muggy” and “my type on paper” are being thrown around un-ironically, and making plans between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm is inconceivable. In the age of crossovers, we can hardly help but imagine… what would happen if...
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Oxford University is facing criticism after suggesting in an email that rising homelessness in the city is due to the generosity of university students. The email was sent to students by the university’s senior proctor, Professor Mark Edwards, and the junior proctor, Cécile Fabre, in an attempt to curb the...
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Maya Kad gives an overview of the Pint of Science Festival, which came to Coventry for the first time.
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The Home Office has added 11 nations to the list of 28 countries whose students are subjected to a “streamlined” British visa application process.
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Recently established university regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), warn that universities which fail to improve student diversity may have their tuition fees cut by a third.
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From the beginning of the twentieth century, new genres of music such as swing, soul, jazz, rap and R&B began to emerge, with black musicians at the forefront of their creation. However, over the course of the development of these music genres, white musicians have appropriated styles from black musicians...
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Upon hearing that Measure for Measure was one of the choices for this year’s WUDS in the Woods, my feelings were mixed. On the one hand I was excited: this play is an excellent piece of literature but performed infrequently due to it being categorised as a problem play, not...
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A bastion of university nightlife, The Assembly, was for one day been repurposed to house world-class Muay Thai athletes from as close as Coventry and as far as Sweden and Spain. At Thai Warriors 6, Dan McGowan, a Muay Thai Grand Prix World Bantamweight champion can be spotted in the crowd,...
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Almost half of students recently surveyed by The Boar are either dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with bus services to and from campus. 69.3% of respondents travel to campus by bus, with 77% of those using the Stagecoach bus services, and the remainder using National Express, bar one student who uses...
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In 2015, a report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2015 claimed that coffee consumption was at all-time high. According to the report, the rising trend among middle classes globally meant that the ‘luxury of the occasional coffee has become a daily habit’ for many people. Evidently, a...
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