Bored with buses? There’s another way
Monday, March 30th, 2009 | Features, Opinions | No Comments
London is a busy city and getting around can be slow, stressful and an absolute pain. Many a City student goes through the daily torture of ridiculously delayed buses, dilapidated over-ground stations and the moving sardine can known as the Northern Line, knowing that there must be a better way to get around. Well, there is. Thomas Roederer explains how cycling may be the best form of urban transportation and gives the insider tips that can help you become a cyclist.
The best way to start your day is a good breakfast; the best way to completely shatter the good spirit you got from that breakfast is a twenty minute wait at the bus stop. After two years spending more time getting to university than I actually spent there, I’d had enough. And so began my love affair with cycling.
All Uphill for City’s Steph
Monday, March 30th, 2009 | Features | No Comments
City University student Steph Black is training for the challenge of a lifetime: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.
The first year speech and language therapy student is scaling the mountain in the summer to raise money for Diabetes UK, a charity close to her heart.
“I’ve done stuff for Diabetes UK before but nothing as big as this”, she told the Inquirer. “There was an advert in the paper and I felt like doing something like this. It’s a way to prove that diabetics can do anything they want to.”
What’s in it for us?
Monday, March 30th, 2009 | Opinions | No Comments
City is set to apply to join the University of London. Amy Bourke muses on what membership could mean for the everyday life of City students.
The University of London is one of the oldest and largest universities in the UK, and recognised globally as a world leader in the field of education, including members such as the London School of Economics, Kings College and UCL. City is a neighbour to some colleges, and even shares facilities with a few, such as the School of Oriental and African Studies. Nevertheless, City has stood as an island in Islington since our humble beginnings as the Northampton Institute in 1894. But is it finally time for our uni to join its more prestigious cousin? And what benefits exactly would being a member of the University of London bring to student life?
The art of graduating
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | Features | No Comments
With the likelihood of the fees cap being lifted increasing and the number of graduate opportunities decreasing, do new university students need to think more carefully about what they choose to study? Are male arts graduates getting the worse deal? Asks Michael Brooks
If you’re male, interested in the arts, and considering going to university, don’t bother. According to Malcolm Gillies, Vice-Chancellor of City University in London, it is not worth a male arts graduate going to university.
The Vice-Chancellor said at his annual address in October that: “The male arts student would probably have been better off, on average, not coming to university at all.”
…Back to the pub, then
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | Opinions | No Comments
So we’re all screwed. Our degrees aren’t worth shit, we’re in tens of thousands of pounds of debt and the government thinks we should aim our sights lower and take any job we can get once we graduate. Wow. There go my hopes and dreams, it seems I’m destined to work in a pub or a shop for ever.
The thing is, working in a pub or a shop is not that bad as long you’ve got something else to aim for. After I left sixth form I spent four years in the real world. A lot of that time was spent taking drugs and having a baby but the rest of it, I spent working. Working my angsty little arse off in a crappy pub in Brixton. I lived there too. It was a sordid little dive full of coke heads and old, pathetic alcoholics.
National student news
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Government caps student numbers
The Labour party has scrapped its target of getting 50 per cent of young people into university – and is blaming the ‘credit crunch’.
The government says it underestimated the cost of more students attending university and so is being forced to cap numbers.
Any universities that over-recruit will face severe financial penalties, ministers warned.
I’m a graduate, get me out of here!
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | Features | No Comments
How are City’s final year students feeling about their job prospects? Katriona Lewis finds out.
How to… do hot yoga
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | Features | No Comments
Looking for a new way release stress and balance your mind, whilst burning 500 calories an hour at the same time? Ruth Lewy gets hot and bothered at a local Bikram Yoga class
It’s hard to breathe. My vision’s blurry. My legs are shaking, bent to 45 degrees, sweat clinging to the back of my knees. The air is hot and sticky, the stench of warm plastic filling my nostrils. I finally give in and let myself collapse to the floor, heart racing. And this is meant to be good for me?
Local news round-up
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The proof is in the pudding
Craving a bit of chocolate cake between lectures, but worried about piling on the pounds?
Jog along to St John Street, where a restaurant is offering up a desert that sounds too good to be true, it’s 100% calorie free, and only costs £1.95.
The Real Greek, just past Exmouth Market, has launched a new “Action Against Hunger” pudding, which claims to add absolutely nothing to your waistline, and leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling inside. All sounds perfect thus far, where’s the sting? Well the sting – and it’s quite a major one – is that there is no pudding, oh no. Instead your £1.95 goes towards charity, which is all well and good – but it’s no apple pie and custard.
NUS reforms ‘have destroyed democracy’, say activists
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The National Union of Students (NUS) passed the biggest reform package in its history at an emergency conference in January.
Delegates from student unions up and down the country came together in Wolverhampton to pass the new constitution, which gave far-reaching powers to a new ‘trustee board’ that can overrule students’ decisions for legal or financial reasons.
But there was controversy on the conference floor as speakers pointed out that many delegates were not elected, and accused the union’s leadership of ‘deliberately’ calling the conference during exams, when few students could attend.
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