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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 »

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 »

Research to be curbed in favour of quality teaching »

Edinburgh University's Old College

Following damning criticism in the National Student Survey, attempts to improve the teaching experience at Edinburgh University have been announced, with plans to restrict the university's focus on research. Vice-Principal Professor Jeff Haywood told ...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Staff and students lash out at unrepresentative education taskforce »

Education Secretary, Fiona Hyslop

The final report of the Joint Future Thinking Taskforce on university funding has met with widespread condemnation from students and staff across Scotland. Following the interim report published this summer, student associations and the University and...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Guy Roberston | Read more »

Academic feedback "copied & pasted," claim students »

Feedback

Tutors at Edinburgh University are once again in the spotlight after allegations of copy and paste feedback were exposed in an online forum. The forum, accessible to students at the university via MyEd, is the latest attempt by the vice principals to ...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Katie Oakes | Read more »

Reform or ruin as NUS approves new constitution »

National Union of Students

The National Union of Students (NUS) is a step closer to adopting a new constitution following a vote at the extraordinary conference requested by over 25 separate universities and colleges. After over six hours of heated debate, elected delegates fro...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

Spotlight on education in the Middle East »

Right to Education

Edinburgh University will Monday launch the annual "Right to Education Week," the product of a campaign set up by Edinburgh's twin institution in Palestine, Birzeit University. According to the Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) the campai...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Council defends insulation pledge »

Edinburgh Council Building

A recent Edinburgh council meeting acknowledged the benefit of free home insulation and has agreed to push the motion forward by requesting a feasibility report. The motion was proposed by Green councillor for Leith Walk, Maggie Chapman, after she was...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Magnus Huntly-Grant | Read more »

EUSA maintains pressure on Edinburgh First over VAT »

EUSA Outlet

After threats by Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) to boycott Edinburgh First catering outlets across campus last week, the company is looking into suggestions proposed by EUSA to stop students being charged VAT. EUSA proposed that Edi...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Charities week chasing more bang for your duck »

Rubber Duck

This week 500 plastic ducks will be released across Edinburgh, each pitted against the other to make it the furthest around the world in six months, all in the name of charity. The ducks' bills will all be tagged with numbers for identification and a ...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Rebecca Sibbett | Read more »

Agenda set for EUSA AGM »

EUSA General Meeting 2008

Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) Wednesday. It comes following recent Student Representative Committee debates in regards to potential constitutional amendments, and will confront various issu...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Corinne Redfern | 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 »

"Liberation officers" to champion minority students at Edinburgh »

Following a precedent set by Scottish universities such as Heriot-Watt, Glasgow and Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh’s Students' Representative Council (SRC) are deliberating the introduction of "liberation and minority officers" t...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Corinne Redfern | Read more »

Rooting through Ramsay's box »

The 'veg-box' contents laid bare.

In the current economic climate the cost of a cabbage matters. Now the age-old student predicament of balancing low-cost living with green ethics has been compounded by the eagerly-awaited 'veg box' scheme, which helped put Adam Ramsay at the top of Un...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Henry McTavish, Magnus Huntly-Grant | Read more »

£20,000 up for grabs at Napier »

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Napier University has set in motion its 2008 student grant initiative in which students are given the chance to win a grant of up to £1000 for research projects to help further their studies. The initiative offers full-time students in second yea...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Hiran Balasuriya | Read more »

University of Edinburgh conservatives endorse McCain »

Edinburgh University Conservatives back McCain and Palin

 In a move unlikely to impact upon this year's election, the Edinburgh University Conservative and Unionist Association (EUCUA), has thrown itself into the US presidential race in an effort to provide "a banner under which to come together&qu...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Edinburgh principals summoned before SRC »

Edinburgh University's Old College

In an unprecedented public response to student concern over poor academic feedback, the vice principals of the University of Edinburgh were hauled before the Student Representative Council (SRC) meeting last week. The university was rated the worst ...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Guy Robertson, Katie Oakes | Read more »

Bhutto wins seat in EUSA by-elections »

The eldest daughter of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, has been elected onto the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) within Edinburgh University Students' Union (EUSA). The 18 year old Bakhtawar Bhutto Zarda...

Tue 14 Oct 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Emergency boost to student loans needed »

Student Debt

The Edinburgh University Students' Association’s external affairs convener, Thomas Graham, has launched a campaign to “ensure that students receive the financial support that they need to continue their studies.”As student loan levels...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

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