Hannah O’Hanlon

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...

As part of their Campus Without Cruelty campaign, the Animal Justice Project (AJP) has released a report about the University of Nottingham’s (UoN) involvement in animal testing. The report from AJP claimed that the University is one of the biggest users of animals in experiments in the UK, with...

Yesterday, 30th October 2017, the University of Nottingham (UoN) Left Society staged a protest at the East Midlands Conference Centre during the 2017 Science and Technology Fair. The fair focused on internships and graduate employment opportunities for students studying STEM subjects- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Thus, the careers...

More universities are choosing to use e-exams rather than traditional written exams. Universities such as Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Nottingham have all started to increase the number of exams completed on computers. The rise in e-exams is partly due to the fact that students have poor handwriting skills as a...

Theresa May has announced that tuition fees will stay at £9,250 for 2018/19, a change from the previously proposed plan to increase the maximum to £9,500. There was also a proposal announced to increase the repayment thresholds from £21,000 to £25,000 a year, which will be introduced in April...