Striking staff’s wages to be reinvested in student hardship fund
University of Edinburgh Principal Peter Mathieson announced on Thursday in an email to students that additional funds arising from striking staff’s unpaid wages are to be invested in the Student…
Politics, poetry, “pot and pills”: 130 years of The Student
8 November 1887. “Students are awakening to a sense of power and responsibility for their share in wise management of the University”. Or so says the editorial published on that…
Interview: Students’ Association Vice President Activities and Services candidate Kai Stuart
The Student sat down with VP Activities and Services candidate Kai Stuart to discuss access to counselling, widening participation in societies, and a new Students’ Association website. Would you be…
Interview: Students’ Association Vice President Welfare candidate Allie McGregor
The Student sat down with Vice President Welfare candidate Allie McGregor to talk mental health support, university expansion, and international students. Could you give us an outline of your manifesto…
Interview: Students’ Association Vice President Welfare candidate Kai O’Doherty
The Student sat down with current VP Activites and Services Kai O’Doherty to discuss developing a university sexual violence policy, championing diversity, and why they are running for VP Welfare…
Mapping Edinburgh’s place in LGBT+ history: past present and future
LGBT+ History Month is both a celebration and a reminder. As a celebration, it’s a time dedicated to looking back at what has already been achieved in the struggle for…
Unpackaging going home for the holidays
In the coming weeks more than a million undergraduate students across the UK will ditch the Arctic cold of their HMO flats and head to a place where the heating…
Louis Theroux on anorexia: shattering misconceptions?
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has to be one of the most merciless, deadly and incomprehensible. With the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder and statistics suggesting that…