How student political societies are spending election week
Durham’s political societies describe their campaigns ahead of the local elections — canvassing, meeting candidates, and the practical business of persuading a student population that local government affects them. It does: licensing, HMO rules and bus funding are all council decisions. Students’ union explained covers the other route into local influence.
Is a university more than a business?
A principal and vice-chancellor argues that running universities as businesses has produced the current crisis, and that the alternative is not inefficiency but a different account of what the institution is for. It is the most senior statement of the argument that has run through this year’s coverage of deficits and closures.
A varsity tournament in its sixtieth year
Lancaster has beaten York at Roses for the fifth consecutive year, in the tournament’s sixtieth edition. Varsity events are the largest student-run sporting occasions in the country, they take hundreds of volunteers rather than athletes, and they are the easiest entry point into a club. Joining a sports club covers getting involved.