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Silent march for "miscarriages of justice" »

Royal Mile

In a silent walk for justice, around 70 people marched together down the Royal Mile last week as part of a bid to attract attention for what they believe to be miscarriages of justice involving family members and friends. Present were individuals are ...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Lidija Liegis | Read more »

Rangers owner honoured with degree »

David Murray ceremony

Scottish businessman and entrepreneur David Murray is among noted figures to receive an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh this year. Sir David, who received a knighthood in 2007, received his honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at th...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Cameron Robinson | Read more »

Pope speaks out about technology »

Pope Benedict XVI

Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press office has revealed the Pope’s belief that modern technology is distracting us from our spirituality. This is not the first time that the Vatican has spoken out about the excesses of mo...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Emma Blinkhorn | Read more »

National honours for ECA architecture journal »

ECA

They design, they modify and they manage the world around us. Our cities, our waterways, our space. Two weeks ago the crème de la crème of landscape architects were recognized in the Landscape Institute’s biennial awards. The Lands...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Philip Close | Read more »

The spirit of '68 »

Even London was considered a sideshow to Paris’ cobblestone throwing conduct of 1968. Mick Jagger summed it up lyrically in a song the same year, “In sleepy London town there’s just no place for a street fighting man.” Edinburg...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Heriot-Watt professor attacks diaspora centre's slavery 'whitewash' »

A leading Scottish academic has attacked the newly-opened Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Ediburgh for failing to address Scotland’s involvement in the slave trade. Dr Geoff Palmer, professor emeritus of Heriot-Watt University, ...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Fraud investigation into student loans »

SLC Building

The government have ordered the Student Loans Company (SLC) to launch an investigation amid growing fears that some students have submitted fraudulent applications. The announcement comes as the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

EUSA launches student teaching award »

EUSA Teaching Awards

Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) officially launched their Teaching Awards Scheme last week. The new initiative aims to recognise and reward good teaching within the university and by doing so hopes to address the imbalance of i...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Rebecca Sibbett | Read more »

ESCA initiatives net six figures for charity »

Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show 08

Edinburgh University has raised almost £100,000 for charity over the past year, it has emerged. Figures seen by The Journal show that Edinburgh Student Charities Appeal (ESCA) at the University of Edinburgh received donations totalling £97...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Adam Carrington | Read more »

Edinburgh: the UK's "loneliest" city »

empty lecture

A study by the University of Sheffield has named Edinburgh as the loneliest city in the UK, with almost a third of residents feeling uninvolved in their local community. The BBC-commissioned study revealed that 33.1 per cent of people living in the ca...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

ECA exhibit showcases Japanese ties »

ECA Japan Exhibition

As part of a collaboration with Kyoto Seika University, Japan (KSU), the Edinburgh College of Art, this week, are to display a mixed-media exhibition based on an artistic exchange between the two cultures. Drawing inspiration from a two week visit in ...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Amy Grant | Read more »

City bus fares set to rise again »

Lothian Buses

Edinburgh’s largest public transport provider, Lothian buses, looks set to introduce further fare increases early next year in an attempt to beat the credit crunch. Despite increases in April this year, with the cost of an adult single rising fr...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Celebrated neuroscientist to set the record straight »

Brain

Apparently, listening to Mozart won't make you smarter. Kicking off the University of Edinburgh Christmas lectures, award-winning Professor Sergio Della Sala looks set give these neurological myths a thorough going over. His lecture on 10 December, en...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Tom Evans | Read more »

British architects to redesign Mecca »

Al-Haram Mosque

Two of Britain’s most successful architects have been approached to redesign the holiest city in Islam, Mecca. Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid are two of 18 architects in line to take on the high profile, multi-billion pound redevelopment project f...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Sarah Clark | Read more »

One in five MSPs keep it in the family »

Nearly one in five MSPs are employing family members on their personal staff, according to a new accountability register published last week. The register, instigated by calls for greater accountability, publishes details of MSP staff hirings and the ...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Ross Melton | Read more »

Excerpts from Student 1968 »

Sponsio Academica I, student of the University of Edinburgh, do give my sincere and sacred promise and wish this my signature to testify thereto forever, that I will be dutiful and industrious in my studies: and by this promise I acknowledge that in a...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 | Read more »

UK ISPs censor Wikipedia »

Internet providers across the UK have blocked access to a Wikipedia page which shows a picture of a naked, prepubescent girl. The censored article, about the relatively obscure German rock band The Scorpions' fourth album Virgin Killer, includes an im...

Mon 08 Dec 2008 by Matthew MacLeod | Read more »

Lives of the not-so famous »

Gossip Girl Edinburgh

In these days of scandal, sex and celebrity divorce, A-listers have found near impossible to keep their showbiz antics a secret, thanks to the intrepid reporting of Perez Hilton and his ilk. Well, now Edinburgh University students have been finding it ...

Sat 06 Dec 2008 by Helen Walker | Read more »

Academics found on leaked BNP list »

A small number of academics and academic support staff, as well as students and retired professors, have been outed as possible members of the far-right British National Party following the leak of a membership list last week. The list, which dates fr...

Mon 24 Nov 2008 by Evan Beswick | Read more »

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