Sarah Lindgarde

  • UCU Strike: SU stance and students demanding compensation

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    March 2, 2018 17:09
    The UCU industrial action is now approaching its third week of strikes over the proposed changes to teaching staff’s pensions.   The result of the 14-day strike means that students will face cancelled lectures, seminars and tutorials. This has left them questioning whether they deserve compensation for the missed...

  • Tackling gender binary thinking at the University of Nottingham

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    March 2, 2018 17:03
    The SU LGBT+ Network at the University of Nottingham (UoN) has started a new campaign, ‘My Gender Is Mine’, aimed at “tackling binary thinking and highlighting the gender spectrum.” Emem Essien, one of the campaign officers who is leading this project, sat down with Impact to talk about the...

  • IMPACT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: DAY 1

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    March 1, 2018 13:50
    The first day of campaigning for the Students’ Union elections has finally approached, but so has the snow. With the heavy snow keeping many students at home, it has been a relatively slow start to the campaigning week. However, at 9am you could still find some candidates and their...

  • Further progress for lecture capture as University agrees to policy of regulation

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    February 13, 2018 12:45
    The University of Nottingham (UoN) has agreed to a policy that will regulate lecture capture starting next year. The Lecture Capture Campaign has been a top priority for former Education officers for the last six years. At the end of last year, it was finally approved by the Teaching...

  • A rise in EU applicants to UK universities

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    February 12, 2018 11:13
    Statistics from UCAS show an increase in the number of applications in 2018, with more than 100,000 being EU citizens. Figures suggest a rise of 3.6 percent of applications coming from students all around the EU, adding up to a total of 43,510. According to Helen Thorne, the UCAS...

  • Man arrested after stabbing in Broadgate Park

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    February 7, 2018 17:21
    A 22-year-old male was taken to the hospital after being stabbed on 4th February in Broadgate Park. Nottinghamshire Police have announced that a 20-year-old man, who allegedly lives in Redwoods in Broadgate Park , has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The police were called to Turnpike Lane...

  • Rise in university admissions for all ethnic groups except white people

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    February 2, 2018 19:57
    New figures published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) shows a two percent decrease in the number of white students applying to university. According to the HESA report, the number has fallen by more than 34,000 since 2013/14 despite a one percent overall increase in university admissions in the same period....