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Approximately 130 students allocated rooms in block A and B of Hill View wouldn’t be able to move into the new accommodation till October 22nd.

Vice Chancellor, Professor Lisa Roberts, Lily Margaroli, President of the Exeter Students’ Guild, and Georgi Griskeviciene, President Exeter of the Falmouth & Exeter Students’ Union (SU), led a panel discussion on the university’s response to the cost-of-living crisis, potential strikes, and the coroner’s report following the death of Harry Armstrong Evans.

The University of Exeter has now entered into a partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a charity that works with businesses and educational institutions to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

Exeter University’s Debating Society hosted its annual Question Time on Friday 18 November between four of the university’s political societies, hosted by chairman Alex Martin. There was a bustling atmosphere in Amory’s Moot Room for the event, which attracted over 100 attendees.

The recent movement of the Women’s Varsity match on 26th October from Sandy Park stadium to the Sports Park has sparked outrage in the Women’s Rug by Club, with one anonymous EUWRFC member branding the move as “Discriminative, unfair, [and] sexist.”

Professor Richard Follett will join the University of Exeter as the new Deputy Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement from January 2023.

A University of Exeter researcher is behind the viral Artic Risk Name Generator, which was launched to spread awareness of Artic warming in the hope of inciting climate action.

An inquest into the death of Exeter student Harry Armstrong Evans, which concluded on 31 October, condemned the University for failing to respond to his “cry for help,” and for failing in its “safeguarding obligations.”

The University and College Union (UCU) has confirmed that it intends to take three days of strike action at the end of November, alongside a marking and assessment boycott in the new year.

University of Exeter researcher Dr Sarah Bell has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize. Dr Bell is a Senior Lecture in Health Geography at the University of Exeter’s European Centre for Environment and Human Health.