What if the students in The Secret History were half-normal?
As an English and Scottish Literature student, it was a rite of passage for me to pick up Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and be equally astounded and horrified at…
Could Sunak’s “nightmarish” plans to make Maths compulsory be beneficial in the long run?
In his first speech of 2023, Rishi Sunak proposed plans to make maths a compulsory subject for all students in England until the age of 18. Sunak hopes to raise…
‘More to be done’ – University’s gender pay gap is above average
An investigation conducted by The Student has revealed that the gender pay gap at the University of Edinburgh was last reported to be 16.67 per cent, nearly one per cent…
Liberation on a House of Cards: Reflection of a Trans Woman in Academia
CW: Transphobia It is well known that the sciences have a problem with inclusivity. Women are not particularly welcome in engineering and even social science departments remain a hotbed of…
Gavin Williamson announces measures designed to protect academic freedom
The Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced stringent new measures this week which aim to prevent free speech and academic freedom being infringed upon in higher education institutions. Upon implementation…
A look back at the Festival of Creative Learning
The brief lull in a semester populated by early tutorials, lengthy assignments, and waning lecture attendance, has gained a plethora of new nicknames over the years and has now been…
UncoverED: decolonising the future through academia
In September 2018, PhD candidates Tom Cunningham and Henry Mitchell, along with a team of student researchers, set out on a project to reveal the stories of Edinburgh’s forgotten students.…
Pay gaps in academia are beyond unacceptable
Last week, the BBC released an eye-opening article detailing the ethnic pay gap between non-white academics and their white contemporaries. Essentially, many academics have been realising that, for equivalent jobs,…
