July is over and you know what that means – time for another newsletter about what we at the SPA have been up throughout the month! If you haven’t spotted our brand new, redesigned website, then have a peek over at spajournalism.com, where Digital Media Officer James Chesson has been beavering away behind the scenes,
I’m currently in that spot in life as a journalist where I am scrabbling around on the floor of my room of dreams desperately grabbing at any old opportunity or possible future-securing job that would give me that opportunity to beat the very millennial problem of not being able to afford to move out of
The Boar https://theboar.org/2017/07/warwick-granted-millions-improve-healthcare-poor-countries/ A fantastic news story by Cecily Morgan about the money that Warwick University has been granted for improving healthcare in some of the world's poorest countries. Well worth a read! "The University of Warwick has been granted £7 million by the National Institute for Health Research towards improving healthcare in some of the
The saddest fact about summer is that it is the quietest part of the year for student media. That does not have to mean that student publications should stop producing content for that period, however. Of course it is a shame that there is such an agonisingly long wait before the next print edition, but
Wessex Scene https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/news/2017/07/20/coldplay-contributes-towards-universitys-groundbreaking-battle-against-cancer/ "The University of Southampton is refusing to disclose the amount donated at the band’s request, but have said that it is a “wonderful gesture”, with the university now having raised over £21 million towards the campaign for a Centre of Immunology." Epigram http://epigram.org.uk/news/2017/07/breaking-university-accommodation-fails-grenfell-style-fire-tests "Waverley House, one of the accommodation blocks available
Last week two stories were published by the Press Gazette on very similar topics. The subject of one: ‘newspaper copies a story from another publisher but doesn’t have to pay copyright’ The subject of the other: ‘a newspaper copies a story from another publisher and is forced to pay for the copyright.’ In the first
Bath Impact Jonny Brighton, a student at the University of Bath, was on placement in the House of Lords at the time the speech was made, which named the "University of Bath managerial staff as being vastly overpaid, receiving pay increases far too large when compared with other public sector workers". http://bathimpact.co.uk/2017/07/14/vc-named-and-shamed-in-the-house-of-lords-for-pay/ Wessex Scene "Perhaps the
The Cambridge Student The Cambridge Student reported on the NUS' response to Conservative comments on tuition fees: "NUS Vice President of Higher Education, Amatey Doku, responded to First Secretary of State and Conservative MP Damian Green's comments on the issue of university tuition fees yesterday, in his first public statement as vice president, calling on
Exepose A couple of political pieces from Exeter's student newspaper: on the fallout from the UK General Election (read more here), and a piece by Jack Watts on James Comey's testimony against Trump (read more here). Inquire "InQuire takes an extensive look at this year’s Summer Ball, as editors Sunny Singh and Jack Hsuan work their way
Hi pals! Welcome to the first newsletter from the new team! And I know, I know.. June is (technically) over. Well, apart from here in Norwich where its been extended for one more day so I can send this out to you all. Ssh. Your exec committee have been doing their best busy-bee impressions this month and
