We launched the 2023 Boar Travel Photo Competition last October to showcase the amazing photos taken by talented Warwick students and to spice up the Travel Instagram page. We weren’t expecting much engagement, in part because we couldn’t think of a catchy acronym for the competition, but mainly because the...
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On October 10, Columbia University Law Professor Anu Bradford spoke at the EU Parliament Library about the need for more robust regulation of Big Tech companies and digital markets. She was joined by a panel of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs): Germany’s Andreas Schwab, Italy’s Irene Tinagli, and Romania’s...
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Last month, the Boar interviewed Tony Wheeler, the co-founder of Lonely Planet, about his role in setting up Warwick’s new postgraduate course, the Wheeler History of Travel Writing PhD Programme. After the interview, I mentioned to Tony that the Boar Travel section was running a travel photography competition, the ongoing...
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This November, The Boar sat down with Warwick alumnus and co-founder of Lonely Planet, Tony Wheeler. During the interview, The Boar asked Tony about his role in the launch of Warwick University’s brand-new postgraduate course, the Wheeler History of Travel Writing PhD Programme, and about his life as a travel...
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If you spend enough time at Soweto Primary School, you can tell which of the pupils are orphans by noticing that they wear different shoes each day. This is because the local orphanage does not let the children keep their own shoes. Each night, they must hand in the pair...
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During Easter, the Boar sat down with Sarath Varadarajan, a third-year Politics and International Studies student at Warwick, to talk to him about his ongoing year abroad, studying Social Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Sarath, it’s lovely to speak to you. Before we talk about your time at VUB,...
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A recent poll by The Boar revealed that Warwick Students are extremely dissatisfied with the Stagecoach bus service from Leamington Spa to Warwick Campus.
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After a successful pilot in 2022, the University of Warwick’s School of Law launched the second year of its community outreach programme, School Tasking, in January. This project, which runs in widening participation schools across the West Midlands, aims to give disadvantaged primary school children their first taste of university.
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Last month, the student housing charity Unipol described the current housing situation in the UK as reaching a ‘crisis point’ as many students struggle to find suitable accommodation to rent.
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A recent report by Ulster University and the Atlantic Technological University (ATU) found that students’ risk of mental illness, substance disorder, suicidal thoughts and ADHD varied by course at university.
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Harvard made history by appointing a black female president for the first time.
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