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The story of Harry’s Law is one with devastating roots, but also a message that has led to important conversations surrounding suicide and legislation. The advocates for Harry’s Law tried to push universities to a new level of accountability and raise awareness of student suicides, a pervasive issue that...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) began a marking boycott on 20th April, in a dispute over pay and working conditions. Staff are refusing to mark assessments and exams. Students have been affected to different extents, depending on their university, but many will not have their final...

Megan Mahoney On Tuesday 18th April, hundreds of state-educated university students were invited to the ‘Social Mobility Factory’ in London. It is the brainchild of Sophie Pender, founder of the 93% club – a simultaneously inclusive and exclusive club for state-educated university students. Since its conception in 2015, most...

Hannah Walton-Hughes On Wednesday 15th March 2023, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered his first Spring Budget. Widely referred to as the “Back to Work Budget”, Impact’s Hannah Walton-Hughes discusses the contents of the budget, and the effect it is likely to have on the cost of...

Holly Philpott If, during your time at university, you’ve taken a closer look at your student ID card and seen the number of ‘Nottingham Nightline’, you may have wondered what this mysterious phone number can lead to. Perhaps you’ve searched up Nightline and done a bit of reading from...

Sophie Robinson As food prices soar and student loans stagnate, many students simply cannot afford to eat.   “Food is the easiest thing to cut out”, says James, a University of Nottingham student.  Students at the University of Nottingham have been forced to find alternative ways to access food during...

Alice Bennett The cost of rent and bills have increased, and university leaders warn that students are at risk of being the “forgotten group in the cost of living crisis”. Does this mean that they have to miss out on internships and skip lectures in order to do paid...