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What is to blame for poor mental health among young people?

This week’s issue of The Student is dedicated to student mental health, something that I know every student at university will have been touched by, whether personally or through friends and family.It is first important to distinguish between diagnosed mental health conditions and mental wellbeing. The more we learn about mental health, the more this […]

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“It is our responsibility to advocate alongside disabled students”: Confronting ableism at our university

We live in a society that is deeply, distinctly, institutionally ableist. To many able-bodied or neurotypical people, this canker of ableism seems hidden beneath the surface: they don’t have to think about it, so they will not notice. It is not callousness, or a lack of care necessarily, just a learned ignorance. They don’t notice […]