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Student finance: some cause for concern »

Adam Ramsay

Student finance in the UK is built on four planks: commercial credit, part time work, parental funding, and government support. The first three are beginning to crack. Commercial loans should never have been a key part of our student funding model. Pe...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Adam Ramsay | Read more »

G20 demonstrations: Police under scrutiny »

Jenny Jones

Nearly 60 per cent of the British public are opposed to the police's behaviour at this month's G20 protests in London, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published last week. This concern is a welcome change to the silence and complacency of recent years...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Jenny Jones | Read more »

North Korea: After Kim Jong-Il »

Prof. Peter M Beck

Walking along Pyongyang’s Taedong River with my most enlightened and curious North Korean guide and without anyone else within earshot, we were having a free-flowing discussion on topics ranging from life in South Korea to how North Korea is view...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Peter M Beck | Read more »

Internet privacy: Mind your own business »

Fred Cate

We live in a world of constant data collection – online and off. Increasingly, everything we do, every step we take, every transaction we enter into is memorialized in digital data. These digital footprints are then collected, stored, manipulated...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Fred H Cate | Read more »

Bogus colleges: Closing the loophole »

Geoffrey Alderman

The recent, much-publicised arrests in connection with an alleged terrorist plot in Manchester have drawn attention to what is widely seen as the "weak link" in Britain's immigration system, namely the apparent ease with which students from outside the...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Geoffrey Alderman | Read more »

Rape: Answers needed »

Nicole Westmarland

Every day last week the number of women that have come forward after being raped or sexually assaulted by John Worboys, the "black cab rapist", went up. By the end of the week a special phone line had been established to record complaints from this one...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Nicole Westmarland | Read more »

School shootings: No easy answers »

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After the shooting this month of twelve people at a school in Germany, there is a renewed drive to find some way to prevent similar acts of violence. But if simple solutions existed, they would have been identified and implemented long ago. In the Unit...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Dewey Cornell | Read more »

Child protection: Rough justice »

Child protection

When we learned the terrible truth about Harold Shipman murdering his patients, I suspect most of us didn’t think our own doctor was a potential mass murderer. But when a social worker is thought to have missed something when investigating a chil...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by David Shemmings | Read more »

Top-up fees: A realistic alternative »

Wes Streeting

Later this year, the government will launch their long awaited review into the future funding of our universities. On Wednesday 18 March, we held a lobby of parliament to present to MPs the basic foundations of what we consider to be a fair and viable ...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Wes Streeting | Read more »

G20 summit: Concentrate, please »

Sam Karasik

On 2 April, the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies will convene in London for a summit on reforming the global financial system. As the number of days until the summit dwindle, presidents, prime ministers, and finance ministers have been touti...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Sam Karasik | Read more »

Putting the student back in student union »

Luke Buckley

When most people think of a student union, it seems obvious that it’s run “By Students, For Students”. So obvious in fact, that the imposing declaration that looms on passers by, adorning the front of Teviot makes me somewhat suspicio...

Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Luke Buckley | Read more »

The euro at ten: Challenges ahead »

In the months before the Euro was launched in January 1999, economists in the United States—and a fair number in Europe—were busy sharpening their daggers. "It’s not an optimal currency area," they cried. Traders derided it as a "to...

Sun 11 Jan 2009 by Daniel Kenealy | Read more »

Alex Salmond: No need to panic »

Alex Salmond

Barack Obama's historic triumph in the US Presidential election shows just what is possible when enough people are motivated by the desire for change and renewal. The Democrat candidate’s mantra of “Hope” resonated with people at a t...

Sat 22 Nov 2008 by Alex Salmond | Read more »

ID Cards: An accident waiting to happen »

Helen O'Shea

Last Thursday, home secretary Jacqui Smith announced that compulsory ID cards for airside workers will be introduced at Manchester and London City airports from next autumn. In announcing her plans, she claimed: “I regularly have people coming up...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 | Read more »

Euthanasia: tied up in knots »

Sarah Wootton

In recent weeks there has been a huge amount of media interest surrounding Debbie Purdy. Purdy suffers from primary progressive multiple sclerosis and has decided that if her suffering becomes intolerable, she may travel to Switzerland to have an assis...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Sarah Wootton | Read more »

Obamamania: the generation game »

Simon Mundy

Most of us weren't there to check, but it's probably safe to assume that Edinburgh student unions didn't have to adopt a "one in, one out" policy on the night George Bush sealed his second presidential term in 2004. The queue stretching across Bristo S...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

Foreign bribery: A national embarrassment »

On Friday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) working group on bribery published a special review of the UK’s record in fighting foreign bribery. It is disturbing reading for the British government, for citizens ...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Chandrashekhar Krishnan | Read more »

Liquidity crisis: Stopping the rot »

Sam Karasik

Last Friday’s protest of the government’s bank bailout plan throws into sharp relief a very legitimate question: why is it that irresponsible banks are receiving tens of billions from the government when ordinary citizens are bearing the br...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Sam Karasik | Read more »

Rape: Pointing the finger »

Jill Saward

In a society increasingly insensitive to victims of rape, this month saw one of the most shocking revelations yet – according to an Amnesty International poll, nearly half of Northern Irish students consider a woman to blame for her own rape if s...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Jill Saward | Read more »

End of the road for the Beeb? »

Neil Blain

It’s 15 years since the late Dennis Potter, British TV’s finest dramatist, attacked former director general John Birt as a “croak-voiced Dalek” for allegedly destroying the BBC’s creative culture through subjugation to the...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Neil Blain | Read more »

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