As part of its coverage of the 2024 Local Elections, The Boar approached all candidates standing for West Midlands Mayor with a series of questions on student concerns. Four candidates agreed, with one, the Green Party’s Siobhan Harper-Nunes, responding within The Boar’s allotted timeframe. Harper-Nunes is a charity executive who...
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The University of Warwick has dropped out of the global top 25 for two subjects in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024, but remains world-leading in two, The Boar can report. A slip in standing saw Warwick’s rankings for Mathematics, and Business and Management Studies, fall from 19th...
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Martin Day describes the strange effects global warming is having on timekeeping and current theories in the science community as to why climate change slowing down time may actually be a good thing.
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The Boat Race 2024 saw the University of Cambridge romp to victory over their age-old rival Oxford, securing a double win in the men’s and women’s races for the fifth time in six years. Yet, it’s likely that the race won’t be remembered so much for this feat as it...
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A Chinese corporate giant is on the brink of a massive investment into Coventry, it has been revealed, as the debate grows over the threat posed by China towards the UK. First reported by The Sunday Times, EVE Energy is in “advanced negotiations” to construct what would be the largest...
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Response from students has been mixed following the launch of ‘Discourse Dan’ by the University of Warwick, in a bid to promote conversation around hot-topic social issues. Billed as “Disco Dave’s socially conscious cousin”, Discourse Dan is set to make his first appearance on campus as early as Term 3’s...
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Academics at three Western universities collaborated with an Iranian university linked to the country’s military to develop drone technology, an investigation has revealed. Researchers from the UK’s University of Southampton, Australia’s University of New South Wales, and the US’s University of Houston worked alongside the Sharif University of Technology, an...
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As part of preparations for the Spring 2024 Students’ Union (SU) Elections, The Boar recently attended a Q&A session involving the candidates vying for Warwick’s National Union of Students (NUS) Conference Delegate positions. The NUS is a collective of over 600 students’ unions across the UK and aims to act...
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Coventry residents are facing massive cuts to public services, after Coventry City Council signed off on new spending cuts in a bid to stave off bankruptcy. City councillors voted on February 20 to legislate public service cuts worth £8.4 million when they approved the proposed annual budget for 2024/25. The...
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Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is widely considered one of the greatest works of satire in cinematic history. Telling the story of a rogue American general who kickstarts a chain reaction of events that ultimately culminates in...
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A generation of young workers do not have the basic skills needed to survive in the workplace, a Conservative business leader has warned, because of the legacy of pandemic lockdowns. Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith said that the disruption caused to education by the coronavirus pandemic had left students without the necessary...
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International students are being dissuaded from studying in the UK due to recent government actions, a university Vice-Chancellor has warned. Professor David Latchman, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birkbeck, said that an “unfavourable atmosphere” created by the British government was causing students from abroad to pull out of university courses. ...
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The UK government is set to lose over £10 billion a year in loans for students in England, as rising interest rates have increased the cost of borrowing beyond the expected returns from student loans. The fiscal blow comes as the Russell Group has warned students will be left almost...
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