Oxford University’s Students Union (OUSU), not to be confused with the Oxford Union, a debating society, narrowly voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS) in a referendum that concluded on Wednesday.
This Tuesday Union Council was cancelled due to failing to achieve quoracy again. An email was sent around on Monday announcing the cancellation after an administrative member of staff received a large number of apologies of absence via email.
Yesterday, 8 College staff members received prizes at the Union’s annual Student Academic Choice Awards (SACAs).
This week the Complete University Guide (CUG) released their latest ranking table for Universities within the United Kingdom.
According to an American study from academics at the Universities of Washington and Maine, “students in classes with traditional lecturing [were] 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning.”
This week five Imperial chemists were rewarded for their contributions to chemical sciences with prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Yesterday saw College coming in 43rd place in the Times Higher Education (THE) Student Experience Survey 2014. Ranked on 21 different attributes, from the strength of the students’ union to the fairness of the workload, the data was gathered by YouthSight over the course of last academic year.
On Wednesday, Imperial became one of the 72 organisations to sign a Concordat on Animal Research within the United Kingdom. The Concordat, which promises that the organisations will be transparent about their experiments on animals, follows an opinion poll conducted in 2012.
Tensions develop between famous Chelsea hospitals
This week 2,700 students graduated from various postgraduate course in the Royal Albert Hall.
According to the Tab Oxford, this week the Oxford Union President Ben Sullivan was arrested by Police and questioned concerning allegations over an incident of rape and another of attempted rape. Sullivan was woken up by police at 7.10 AM Wednesday morning and was released on bail until June 18.
In a Superdrug study of sexual health provision by universities nationwide College was rated 14th and provided with a 2:1 classification.