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National: NUS president stitch-up
A whistleblower exposes “backroom deals” between Labour and ‘independents’
‘Team City’ win union elections
Inquirer’s radical slate defeated on low turnout
City takes £500,000 from arms trade
University research bankrolled by arms dealers
Down the union: April
Union rebuild plans kick into high gear, two new societies, DiverCity show, RAG day
Local: Historic Shoreditch landmark under threat
Light building set to be demolished
Local: Islington news roundup - April
Celeb pub, cinema rip-off, aliens at Archway and flash floods
National: Viva Essex!
Radical slate takes five out of five positions at University of Essex SU after recount
Our scholarships: funded by war crimes
While Caterpillar’s bulldozers destroy homes in Palestine, our university invites the company to give out engineering awards
City’s ‘dodgy donor’
City has donated £1m to an Islington city academy. But who is the secret backer that gave the university the money?
The great graduation rip-off
£37 gowns and £63 photos - how City profits from our graduation ceremonies
Union council: behind the scenes
Behind those closed doors, how does the student union make its decisions?
SU reveals its new bar
The student union has released near-final sketches of its rebuild project
Turnmills to close
A club used for many of City’s events is shutting down
Local: Islington news roundup - February
Nicked bikes, stadium rock, cash-for-bananas, funnymen and £1,000 steaks
National: Would you like fries with that diploma?
Unions’ outrage as McDonalds wins right to issue ‘McQualifications’
National: Students to be ID card ‘guinea pigs’
Getting a student loan will mean giving up your fingerprints and DNA for government database
National: Students miss out on £19m
Poor students have failed to claim £19 million of the bursaries they are entitled to
City jobs dry up
Hundreds of City Uni graduates could be left jobless as the credit crunch starts to bite
Half uni’s cheats in social science dept
Half of all cases of plagiarism at City come from the School of Social Sciences, a report reveals
Another bar delay
The student union’s £700,000 new bar may not be ready for another two years, a report says
The end of the NUS?
National: The National Union of Students’ leadership is set to force through massive cuts in democracy
Contractors waste food as students go hungry
Catering staff have only just started monitoring the shocking amounts of food wasted at the university
National: Be realistic on fees, Imperial SU president says
Imperial College student union has voted to drop its opposition to top-up fees, in a bid to be more ‘realistic’
National: UK unis among best - but not City
UCL now ranked one of the world’s ten best universities - but City University doesn’t even make the top 200
National: Graduates don’t escape gender pay gap
A university degree is no guarantee for a full-time job or fair pay for women, a government study has found
Scheduled for demolition
Exploring our disappearing London: urban exploration in Hackney
Christians banned over ‘gay-bashing’
(Updated) The Christian Union has been suspended after the Inquirer exposed its homophobic preacher
Arts dean’s departure leaves school in limbo
School of Arts dean Sue Robertson resigns after just five years at City with College building unfinished
Sorry I messed up the room numbers
City staff behind the room renumbering chaos apologise to staff and students for the disruption
The logo will change - but which will it be?
The new logo will take the university ‘upmarket’ - and we’ve got hold of the ideas going head-to-head
One day in the SU bar…
Our new columnists tried to spend a day at the SU’s terrible Saddlers bar. Did they survive?
National: Degrees for profit
A profit-making company gets the go-ahead to award UK degrees, sparking concern over university privatisation
National: UK unis scrimp on teaching time, says survey
UK undergraduates receive less tuition time than anywhere else in Europe, a survey has revealed
Money for nothing: the venders that rob
The uni’s vending machines make a small fortune each day from swallowing students’ cash, staff say
City soon to be a ‘Fairtrade uni’
University officials are confident that City will soon be awarded Fairtrade university status
Half drop out of engineering
Students with poor A-levels struggle with advanced maths - but City just keeps on increasing admissions
Only 2% vote in SU election
Just 400 people voted in the student union’s election to choose part-time officers and the union council
Education should be broader, says new VC
He hints at general studies modules for all courses
Students rule and lecturers must do better
New VC shifts focus from staff to students
Union’s U-turn over pool tables
SU forced to pull back from plans to go ‘upmarket’
The spirit of ’68, by the City student who was there
When the Paris student uprising broke out, City’s student newspaper sent its own reporter…
Uni’s not just for getting a job…
We’re all so bored of hearing it: ‘the university for business and the professions.’ It’s more than that
‘Every good essay is suspicious’
Has City’s plagiarism paranoia gone too far? We ask why our university doesn’t seem to trust us
So, what do you think?
We caught up with four first years to see how they’re settling in
Sex at City - the big taboo
What did our sex survey tell us about students’ love lives?
The people’s potato
City’s canteen is pricey and bad… but there’s more than one way to eat at uni
Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland…
More and more German students are coming to Britain to study - but once they get here, many feel there is no going back
A few French lessons
When it comes to standing up for themselves, France’s students put us to shame. Pick up a few tips here
Urban monkeys in the concrete jungle…
Sport, art or lifestyle? Our reporter takes some lessons in Parkour.
Great Expectations?
Behind an unlabelled Shoreditch door is a hardcore sex store that could make Ann Summers blush
‘The halls are suffocating us’
The damage City’s halls can do to students’ minds
Back in the days of the Northampton Institute…
We look at City University’s rarely spoken of 1894 origins
Stop the war now!
Our reporter joined City’s contingent on the ‘illegal’ march past parliament
The secret diary of a fresher
A first year spills the (microwaved) beans on his first few weeks getting to grips with London life