Cassie O’Boyle

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...

The second day of campaigning for SU elections has been snowy and windy, but the candidates persevere and are chatting to students around campus. In the unusually quiet Portland building, Impact first catches up with Pete Lendon who is running to be your next SU President. “It’s going really...

During our Students’ Union Elections Media Day on Saturday 24th February, we chatted to the candidates who are running to be elected as your Education Officer for the 2018-19 academic year. Take a look at what they had to say. Cassie O’Boyle Cassie O’Boyle is the current Education Officer...

Staff and students at the University of Nottingham kicked off a potential four weeks of strikes over pensions on 22nd February, with a picket at the West Entrance of University Park Campus and a banner drop over Ningbo Friendship Bridge. The picket is part of a wave of industrial...

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...

With fees rising to £9,250, the cost of education is high. The scrapping of the NHS bursary and maintenance grants paired with high rent and living costs means your time at University has a very large price tag. It is perhaps because of these external factors that so many...

The universities watchdog has released guidelines instructing universities how to deal with essay writing companies that help students cheat. The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) is urging universities to address the issue of students buying essays from ‘essay-mills’ and passing them off as their own. The recommendations include using software...