More than one in five children in Edinburgh lives in poverty, according to a new report by the Education, Children and Families Committee of the City of Edinburgh Council, with the number expected to...
Thurston Smalley
Thurston is a final year French and politics student from Chertsey, England. He first wrote for his high school newspaper, The Phillipian, in 2009. He began writing for The Student in 2011, became News Editor in 2012, and Editor in Chief in 2015. He currently serves as President.
Scottish leaders have hailed the results of a study by BiGGAR Economics which found that the University of Edinburgh adds £2 billion annually to the Scottish economy. In interviews with The Student,...
Editor’s Notes: (1) The Student has seen no evidence to indicate that the threat discussed in this story is credible. (2) This story has been updated (2/10/2015, 11:18am, 11:51am, 12:36pm). Police...
Nominations for this year’s Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) and National Union of Students (NUS) UK and Scotland by-elections have opened amid optimism over student engagement...
The Journal, a fortnightly student newspaper produced in Edinburgh since 2007, wound down operations over the summer after eight years of service to the Edinburgh student community. The Edinburgh...
The Student is a very special society. It provides students at The University of Edinburgh a quality platform to express their ideas. Our doors are open to everyone: all of our editors and writers...
Members of The University of Edinburgh community gathered for a vigil in Bristo Square on Tuesday 13 January to remember the victims of the Paris and Nigeria terror attacks. The vigil, organised by...
Leaked conversations between members of the DKE-AS fraternity reveal confusion, chaos, panic, racism, lack of remorse, and trivialisation of the recent Meadows rape, as the members attempted to...