The Boar’s albums of the year 2023
The Boar's picks for the best albums of the year of 2023.
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Devina Singh
The LinkedIn Effect
The last 50 years has seen the world rapidly transform as has the job market. 50 years ago, people shopped for jobs through newspaper and magazine ads, interpersonal connections and handing in their resumes. Today, sites like LinkedIn and Indeed exist to help you job search- easily accessible, and ripe...
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Faculty of Arts Building awarded West Midlands Building of the Year
The Faculty of Arts Building (FAB) was named the West Midlands Building of the Year at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) West Midlands regional awards. The building, constructed with the support of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, cost £57.5m and brought together the departments and schools of the faculty....
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Are you faking it, or is everyone else?
Most university students are aware that student life is very detached from modern media’s fantastical representations of it. There is no doubt that the university experience involves its fair share of hardships — isolation, burnout, deteriorating mental health, and impostor syndrome being some of them. How does one possibly deal...
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Marking boycott to leave students “in limbo”
The commencement of the University and College Union (UCU) and Further Education Lecturers Association (EIS-FELA) marking and assessment boycotts from 20th April 2023 have left students across the UK “in limbo”. The UCU asked all its members to “cease undertaking all summative marking and associated assessment activities/duties”. The boycott, an...
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75 years of Indian independence: how the nation was liberated.
Devina Singh explains India's fight for independence 75 years ago.
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London medical school benefited from colonial exploitation, report finds
A report has found that the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) benefitted from colonial exploitation. It says that that the development of “tropical medicine” at LSHTM was shaped by white supremacy and racist pseudoscience.
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Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi criticises teachers’ warning to strike
In a letter to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, the Joint General-Secretaries of the National Education Union (NEU) warned that they would campaign in favour of industrial action if the government proceeded with plans for a pay increase of 3% for most educators in England.
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