Student debt is set to rise to £23,500, according to the Push, the university guide. This is quite a lot of money, but as I’ve argued before, it’s less than you think. It’s certainly less than the £83,000 the Telegraph argue that a typical three year BA will cost once tuition fees increase. Here...
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Politics, pirates and Papadofragakis, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love union elections
Student Politics is a serious business. Students want commitment, experience and innovativeness from their student presidents - failing that, they’ll settle for eye patches and cutlasses. This is why last year the position of Student Union President for the University of York was won by a pirate.
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Popped collars, a surplus of second names, and a scary Canadian: it’s Bristol University’s Union Elections!
Bristol’s Student Union is, apparently, the most apathetic in the country. There’s some statistics to back it up, but I’m so apathetic I can’t be arsed to find them. Hopefully this demonstrates the point adequately.
However, turnout this year at the Union elections was reasonably good. There are probably many reasons for this – being...
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