10 h. ago Hong Kong election overshadowed by anger at fire, crackdown on dissent and threats to international media

A major university has suspended its student union after its forum was used to post messages demanding accountability from the city’s administration

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3 d. ago University honoured for international student careers support

University honoured for international student careers support  Barking and Dagenham Post

Society

3 d. ago ‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show

As the band celebrate their 60th anniversary, a California exhibition draws attention to the unique psychedelic artwork that has long told their storyArtist Bill Walker is one of those guys who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Having met Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead bassist and avant-garde classical composer, as a student at Nevada Southern University (now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Walker was invited in 1967 to make an album cover for the band’s second album, Anthem of the Sun. This experience led to an epic LSD and ayahuasca trip in the Valley of Fire outside Las Vegas over New Year’s Eve and when Walker returned to San Francisco, he painted Anthem of the Sun, complete with figures he came across in the desert.The Anthem of the Sun painting visually demonstrates the intense innovation that happened in the psychedelic revolution, when music was electrified and LSD became central to the burst of culture that defined the 1960s. The Grateful Dead enc...

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3 d. ago University of Delaware student arrested on allegations of plotting an attack against campus police

Authorities say a University of Delaware student was arrested after police found a handgun, ammunition and written plans for an attack in his vehicle

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4 d. ago Pictured: 'Germophobic' girlfriend stabbed to death by her Goldsmiths student lover in row over STI

Zhe Wang, a 31-year-old creative writing student at the London university, was found dead with two stab wounds to her face at her flat in Manor Park, Lewisham, south-east London, in March 2024.

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4 d. ago Now watchdog bites back at Chancellor: Day after its chairman was forced to quit over Budget shambles, OBR turn screw on Reeves to 'set the record straight'

Rachel Reeves faced fresh calls to quit last night as the war of words with Britain's top economic watchdog intensified.

Politics

6 d. ago Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency

Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quitIncreasing hate, threats and harassment against female politicians are scaring women away from public life and forcing them to censor themselves, the Swedish government’s equality agency has said, warning that this poses a “big threat to democracy.”Women’s safety in politics has come under heightened scrutiny in the Scandinavian country since October, when Anna-Karin Hatt resigned as leader of the Centre party after only five months in office, citing hate and threats. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Freddie Flintoff quit new job over money dispute but had £9million payout to fall back on

Freddie Flintoff has faced a challenging few years, even being forced to quit a job after receiving what he felt was a deeply undervalued salary offer

Economics

8 d. ago Rachel Reeves faces calls to quit after watchdog contradicts her £30bn ‘black hole’ warning

The Chancellor faces cross-party anger after revelations that the UK’s supposed £30bn fiscal gap was actually just £2.5bn, fuelling claims she misled voters to justify tax rises

Events

9 d. ago Girl passes away in her sleep as tributes flood in for teen who 'will forever be missed'

Poppy Johnson, 18, a Bangor University student, died peacefully in her sleep on November 16. Now tributes have poured in for the 'loving daughter' who will 'forever be missed'

Events

1 week ago Cardiff University student killed in crash while walking her dog

Lucy Atkins had just finished her first year at Cardiff University when she was involved in the fatal crash

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1 week ago 'Exceptionally bright' medical student plunged 500ft to his death on Snowdon after getting lost in 'beyond atrocious' weather conditions

A university student who continued walking up Mount Snowdon in poor weather even after the rest of his family turned back plunged more than 500ft, an inquest heard.

Society

1 week ago Tributes paid to young woman, 20, killed by a car in broad daylight while walking her dog as woman, 34, jailed

A HEARTBROKEN family has paid a touching tribute to a young woman who was fatally struck down while walking her dog. Danielle Mitten has been jailed after she mowed down Lucy Atkins, 20, as she walked her Lakeland Terrier, Simba, in Birmingham last year. University student Lucy was hit by the car as it sped...

Events

1 week ago ‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci

‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’In 1970, I partnered with Dan O’Bannon, a classmate at the University of Southern California, on a senior student project. We wanted to make a science fiction movie inspired by Dr Strangelove and 2001. We had no money but we did have enormous ambition. Dan co-wrote it, and he was also its production designer and editor, and he acted in the movie, playing Sergeant Pinback. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Villagers wage war on university over plans to tear up its own Green Belt sports fields to make way for MORE student housing

Bath University has submitted plans to turn a 30-acre spread of sports pitches, known as Sulis Club, into accommodation for around 250 students.

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2 w. ago The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17

Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decisionThe outcome for those involved in military coups can be unpredictable at the best of times. In Ussu’s case, he was captured and tortured before making a bold escape. But after breaking out of the compound where he was jailed, and coming to Britain, a very different kind of fight lay ahead – one that lasted almost two decades.Ussu grew up in a small and unstable African country, a former Portuguese colony that was no stranger to attempted coups (the country is not being named to protect Ussu’s identity). A good student, he dreamed of going to university to train to become a doctor, but he was required to complete two years of military service first. Once he was in the army, though, his superiors refused to release him. Years passed and there was still no sign of an exit route. He became incr...

Events

2 w. ago Labour MPs say Starmer will quit in the New Year before he's forced to face a leadership challenge... and only NINE percent of voters think he'll still be Prime Minister after the next election

At the start of a crunch week for the PM, with one of the most anticipated Budgets of modern times taking place against the backdrop of plots against him, MPs are suspicious of his 'new zen-like mood'.

Politics

2 w. ago Labour MPs say Starmer will quit in the New Year... before he's forced to face a leadership challenge

Despite Labour languishing at 18 percent in the polls - and Cabinet colleagues openly jostling for his job, one backbencher who met him recently said: 'He was very chilled.

Politics

2 w. ago Bride sexually assaulted, killed and stuffed into wall days before wedding

Annie Le was a 24-year-old student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who was murdered by a lab technician just days before her wedding in 2009

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2 w. ago Meet Britain's next top models: Libby Bennett, Calum Harper, Rubuen Bilan

From the Haringey heartthrob to a Victoria Beckham-approved Oxford University student — these are the nine new names to know

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