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.
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 rise “significantly” by 2020. The report also observes a dramatic increase in reliance on food banks by Edinburgh’s families. The news […]
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, a number of politicians welcomed BiGGAR Economics’s findings. For every £1 invested in the University by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the University […]
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 Scotland are investigating after a threat was made against students at the University of Edinburgh Thursday afternoon on the anonymous 4chan messaging board. In the […]
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 in campus politics. The by-election will see 62 positions contested: 40 within EUSA, 14 within NUS Scotland, and eight within NUS UK. Candidate nominations will close on Thursday 1 […]
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 Sheriff Court’s July 23 appointment of Grant Thornton LLP to liquidate the business ended months of uncertainty over the paper’s future. The Journal was forced to […]
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 are volunteers. For each of us, the newspaper is a hobby. But last week, work at The Student didn’t feel like […]
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 History student Flora Hutchings, drew many attendees from the University’s large French contingent, and saw participants defy wind, snow and freezing temperatures […]
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 determine the sources of their leaks and control the fallout of The Student’s Tuesday article. The Facebook conversations took place between original members listed in the minutes […]