The Student has recently begun to digitise old editions of the newspaper in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections. This provides a fascinating look at student life and concerns from 30 years ago, during the 1984/85 academic year. Predictably, most of the woes of university life are the same, yet a […]
In October 1984, as Freshers’ Week was in full swing and Edinburgh’s newest crop of students were beginning to acclimatise themselves to their new homes, a piece of graffiti was discovered on a desk on the upper floor of the Main Library. It’s content remains shockingly relevant: “even if you gave the Scots independence, they’d […]
If The University of Edinburgh can proudly display “one of the world’s top 20 universities” on its website homepage, why is it that it places consistently low in student satisfaction rankings in the UK? Often when prospective students are looking to apply to a university, they will first of all consult the league tables. However, […]
When embarking upon university in the 21st century, one of the last problems one expects to encounter is the pervasive presence of sexism. Yet, with recent research by the Nation Union of Students (NUS) revealing that 50 per cent of student participants identified prevalent sexism, laddism and a culture of harassment at their universities, sexism […]
On Thursday October 7, the results of the Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) by-election were announced. Voter turnout was just under nine hundred, out of a student body of almost 30,000 (roughly three per cent). So does anyone really care? Are people apathetic towards student politics or simply ignorant of it? Speaking to students it’s […]
The recent scare over the alleged Snapchat photo leaks has only served to highlight an alarming trend of breaches in the online privacy of millions of individuals across the globe. The nternet, with all its numerous benefits, reaches an ever growing number of people every day; it is estimated the percentage of Internet users in […]
At the front line of cancer research fundraising, one can find some of the hardest working people in the world. It’s not just the directors, CEOs, and venerable donors at the heads of huge organisations such as St. Jude, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Cancer Research UK, but the millions of individuals around the globe impassioned […]
We’ve all heard the story about the birds and the bees, and how babies are brought by storks. Many parents are happy to answer their children’s questions honestly as and when they ask. However, for some young people, learning about babies and storks is in fact their first introduction to the vast and controversial topic […]