Our time at The Boar
Some of our outgoing section editors reflect on their time with The Boar, sharing what the paper means to them.
Read More
Kushal Talsania
Quality of higher education compromised by marketing costs, says NUS president
A fall in the quality of education in universities has come at the expense of increased spending in marketing, says Zamzam Ibrahim, the newly elected president of the National Union of Students (NUS).
Read More
Rising knife crime in Coventry and surrounding regions
Rising knife crime in Coventry has led police to undertake Operation Sceptre which will involve weapon searches, sweeps and school visits to warn children about the dangers of carrying knives. Throughout the week, police will work with community members to search for knives hidden in public places. On top of...
Read More
University students are gambling their loans in bid to increase funds
A NUS survey has discovered that around 100,000 students gamble their loans in a bid to increase their funds. The findings revealed that three in five students have gambled their money over the past year and that nearly half of them did so to supplement their own income.
Read More
Cadet’s death leads Keele University student to request refund for show
A Keele University student asked for a refund after they were unable to see Croydon-based rapper Cadet perform, who died in a car crash in the early hours of Saturday morning on his way to the midlands university. The Keele student, whose Twitter handle is Jordi Foxx, tweeted: “What about...
Read More
Claire Fox on Warwick, free speech, and the “snowflake generation”
On Thursday 24 January, under the invitation of Warwick Politics Society, Claire Fox gave a talk to students about the nature of free speech, its impact on younger generations today, and Brexit, and spoke to The Boar afterwards.
Read More
Expected tuition fee raise for two-year degrees to £11,100
Recent legislation has been passed by MPs to increase the tuition fee cap for two-year degrees to £11,100 a year in England. Describing the bill as “a modern-day milestone for students”, Universities Minister Chris Skidmore stated the legislation would “break the mould of a one-size-fits-all system for people wanting to...
Read More
Warwick ranked 26th in the world for sustainability
Universitas Indonesia (UI) declared the University of Warwick is the 26th most sustainable university in the world, and eighth in the UK, as part of its UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2018. Being the only university ranking in the world that measures 719 higher education institutions and their commitment to...
Read More
University leaders warn the impacts of no-deal Brexit
Heads of universities have warned that a no-deal Brexit could mean “an academic, cultural and scientific setback from which it would take decades to recover" in an open letter to their MPs.
Read More
UCL to close its Qatar campus
University College London has recently stated that its Qatar campus will shut down in 2020 following concerns regarding the future success of the overseas outpost model. A spokesperson at UCL said that the reform was part of the institution’s 2034 strategy, “which from 2020 will see the university delivering all...
Read More
Brian Cox and others to be awarded honorary degrees from Warwick
Professor Brian Cox, alongside others, is to be awarded an honorary degree by the University of Warwick in the upcoming winter degree ceremonies. Aside from the Professor Cox, who will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science (Hon DSc) for his services to science, the physicist will be joined by...
Read More
Universities plan to recruit more white male students due to fall in numbers
Two British universities have sought to recruit more white male students after statistics revealed that they were now classed as a “minority group”.
Read More
Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana campus
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian independence leader has been removed from the University of Ghana’s campus after students and staff argued he had “racist” views against Africans, considering them to be “inferior”.
Read More