Students have ripped down a metal fence erected around their halls on the first day of England’s second coronavirus lockdown. Crowds of undergraduates at Manchester University trampled on the barrier and set off flairs in the Fallowfield area of the city. Pictures earlier today showed tradesmen putting up the huge blockade ready for the four-week … Read more
Cambridge students warned to stay in halls or they won’t be allowed to graduate Undergraduates have to stay within three miles of Great St Mary’s Church Graduates have to stay within ten miles in order to progress their degrees Those in earlier years may also be prevented from progressing to next year By Kumail Jaffer … Read more
A Bangor University student has been found dead at a halls of residence, becoming the ninth UK student to have died in one month. Police officers and paramedics were called to a student’s room at the university in North Wales on Sunday evening, before a 26-year-old man was pronounced dead. His death is not being treated as … Read more
Scottish students face a ‘realistic possibility’ that they may not be allowed to return home over Christmas if coronavirus is not ‘contained’ , Scotland’s Education Secretary has warned. John Swinney said there is a ‘realistic possibility’ that university students could be asked to stay in halls or other university accommodation at Christmas. However, he stressed … Read more
Student, 20, is found dead in his halls at Coventry University By Mark Duell for MailOnline Published: 10:24 BST, 21 October 2020 | Updated: 10:25 BST, 21 October 2020 A 20-year-old Coventry University student has been found dead in his halls of residence. West Midlands Police said the student was found dead in the Bishop … Read more
Finn Kitson, 19, was found dead at halls of residence at the University of Manchester A teenage university student, who is the son of a leading Cambridge academic, died in his halls of residence after suffering with ‘severe anxiety’ during a campus ‘lockdown’, his family say. The 19-year-old student, named by his family as Finn … Read more
A teenage university student, who is the son of a leading Cambridge academic, died in his halls of residence after suffering with ‘severe anxiety’ during a campus ‘lockdown’, his family say. The 19-year-old student, named by his family as Finn Kitson, was found dead at halls of residence at the University of Manchester. His death, … Read more
President Donald Trump, on the day after his contentious town hall with NBC, got in another round of attacks on moderator Savannah Guthrie and his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Trump called Guthrie ‘crazy, claimed Biden was running a crime family, and , the moderator of Biden’s competing town hall on Thursday, for not asking the … Read more
Biden beats Trump…. in ratings war: Early figures show the former VP raked in 14.1 million viewers compared to the president’s 13.1 million during rival town hall events The early data shows that Joe Biden’s ABC News event attracted an audience of 14.1 million compared to President Trump’s 13.1 million viewers on NBC The Nielsen … Read more
Students are branding their university accommodation ‘the UK’s most expensive prison’ as they criticise the food supplied to them in isolation. Undergraduates have branded food parcels as being filled with ‘junk’, forcing them to get their parents to send fresh fruit and vegetables. And some students have claimed that universities have forgotten to give them … Read more