Last winter, mumps spread round universities, despite nationwide MMR vaccination schemes. This year, the world ground to a halt over a different virus. How much hope can we place in a vaccine?
Séamus OHanlon reports.
Vice-Chancellors Under Fire For Expenses
Following two years of research and hundreds of freedom of information requests (FOIs), Channel 4’s Dispatches programme uncovered the extraordinary sums of money paid as expenses to Britain’s university vice chancellors. Given the ongoing strikes […]
‘Unprecedented Demand’ Left University Counselling Service ‘Booked Up’ From 7th November
Freedom of Information [FoI] requests from the Leeds Student Medical Practice, reveal that University Counselling informed the practice that the service was booked up until the end of the term (8th December). Students were not […]
News | Alcohol to blame for hospitalized students
Student admittances to A&E for alcohol-related emergencies almost doubled over the course of last year, an LS Freedom of Information request has uncovered. Between the April to June (Q2) and July and August (Q3) 2013, […]