Exeter Fashion Society are holding a fashion show in collaboration with UNICEF on campus to raise money for the children’s charity. The event is taking place on the 5th March in the Great Hall on campus starting at 7pm and finishing at 9.30pm. The forty models will be walking the runway in the following four […]
Students queue from 1am for next year’s accommodation…
Students queued from as early as 1am outside Cardens, the estate agents, so they could rent their preferred accommodation for next year. When Cardens opened for business at 9am on Monday (November 7) staff were greeted with a long queue of students. The students had queued for up to eight hours in the cold because […]
XTV release sequel to NaSTA award-winning video
Last year XTV, the university’s very own television station, won eight awards at the National Student Television Awards (NaSTA) including ‘Best Light Entertainment’ for ‘Whittle vs Market’. XTV has now released a sequel to that video called ‘Whittle vs Busk’. The judges said the following about the original award-winning Whittle vs Market: “This was a […]
Slow start and disastrous defending leaves Exeter City in relegation zone
Exeter City’s slow start and defensive mistakes let them down in a 2-1 defeat to Cambridge United meaning the Grecians have still not win a match at home this season. Exeter started woefully after Cambridge capitalised on a disastrous mistake by the goalkeeper, Christy Pym. His poor clearance was charged down by Luke Berry. However, […]
Medical students launch new research journal
Students from the University of Exeter Medical School have launched a new health research journal alongside peers from Bristol, Cardiff and Plymouth. The ‘INSPIRE Student Health Sciences Research Journal’ features original research by students undertaken in world class facilities. The journal is produced by a team of student editors from the four universities and is […]
Proposal steals the show at Campus Cinema
Film-goers at the Campus Cinema were in for a surprise at a 6.30pm screening of Tarzan on 4 October, when a special romantic video was played before the film – shortly followed by a marriage proposal. After the trailers and adverts, the lights went out, leaving a blank screen for a few seconds. Then a short […]
60 Second News Roundup
Here’s the first fortnightly 60 Second News Roundup covering the key events in Exeter. Special thanks to XTV for the video production.
New #NeverOK Video Uses Curly Fries to Explain Sexual Consent
The University of Exeter Students’ Guild has released a new video for their #NeverOK sexual harassment campaign featuring one of Exeter’s favourite dishes: curly fries. The new video helpfully uses curly fries as an analogy for sexual consent with the opening line: “If you’re struggling with consent just imagine that instead of initiating sex, you […]
Fire closes the Cavern for several weeks
A fire at Exeter’s Cavern on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning will close the popular venue on Queen Street for “several weeks”. The fire started at around 10.20pm and firefighters from Crediton, Exeter and Topsham continued to tackle the blaze until around 2 am on Wednesday morning. Emergency services were first alerted when smoke was […]
More than a third of graduates regret attending university
More than a third of UK graduates regret going to university according to new research by Aviva into the finances of millennials. Aviva found that 37% of graduates regretted university due to the high amounts of debt they now had. Furthermore, 49% said they could have got to where they are now – without their […]