To help students unwind, the University launched ‘DeStresstival’: a series of events running throughout the term, including a campus-wide May Day celebration that took place last Friday. Term 3 is a particularly stressful time for students, with exams, essay deadlines, and dissertation submissions piling up at once. The programme featured...
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The US has been remaking British TV for decades. Sometimes it works – The Office arguably became even bigger than the original British version, however other times this is less true. More recently, the UK has even started returning the favour, adapting the long-running American staple Saturday Night Live. But...
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Leamington Spa has bid to become the UK’s first Town of Culture, a branch of the City of Culture initiative, with mixed response from University of Warwick students. The UK City of Culture initiative was launched in 2009 and has featured four winners, including Coventry in 2021. This year, the Department for...
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University House, Warwick’s main administrative building and home of the Learning Grid, has closed for essential maintenance and repair work and is not expected to reopen until 2027. Staff based in University House were moved out of the building from the end of November, with access to the building...
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Starting university is both a daunting and exciting time in a person’s life. It’s often the first taste of independence, offering the freedom to explore new identities and reinvent oneself. Unsurprisingly, this transformative period has been a popular subject in literature for centuries. The university novel captures this pivotal stage,...
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Almost 17,000 students secured a place at university through clearing in just one day of lines being open this year, a 1.8% increase from 2024. Clearing has become an increasingly popular pathway into higher education. 5,840 applicants applied directly through clearing this year, bypassing the main UCAS application cycle entirely....
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Students in Leamington who crave Pret A Manger but don’t fancy coming to campus will soon have reason to celebrate, as the popular chain is set to open its first Leamington branch this summer. The new store will be part of an expansion of the Morrisons petrol station on Old...
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A mobility scheme which would allow UK and EU youths to live and work in each other’s countries may finally be on the table, after being blocked for over a year. Proposals for such a scheme were first tabled in April 2024 but, despite growing international interest, the plans were...
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British boarding schools have been romanticised for generations, with countless children dreaming of joining their favourite fictional institutions alongside beloved characters. Whether it’s heading down to Cornwall to join the girls at Malory Towers, or journeying north to the windswept Scottish Highlands to walk the halls of Hogwarts, these stories...
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Warwick District Council has called for urgent action to tackle the ongoing problems caused by pigeons nesting under railway bridges in Warwick and Leamington Spa. The council has written to Network Rail, who are responsible for managing the thirteen rail bridges in the area, about their concerns, highlighting particular concerns...
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Public ceremonies and exhibitions will be held across Warwickshire to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, which brought an end to the Second World War in Europe. A ceremony in Royal Leamington Spa will head up the local event programme, which also includes commemorations across the local area,...
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Ireland is now the UK’s largest provider of European Union students, with numbers having grown since Brexit. According to new data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the overall number of EU applicants to UK universities since Brexit has declined by more than half, with only 75,500 applying for...
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In 1503, Leonardo da Vinci began work on one of the (if not the) most famous paintings in the world: Mona Lisa. Da Vinci’s painting was acquired by the French King, Francis I, after he died in 1519, having spent the last years of his life in the French court....
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