Victoria Cramer picks apart the influence of tourism on the culture and security of the Catalan capital city; translated by Valeria Tamayo Camelo. Si quieres una implicación de la escala enorme de turismo en Barcelona, una búsqueda de Google lo revelaría todo. Como he descubierto durante mi investigación para escribir este artículo, una búsqueda de […]
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“And after that, could you get me a coffee…?”
It’s the calm before the storm; the time of year when we are just teetering on the brink of the annual scramble for summer work placements. Unpaid internships are increasingly sought after by young people as a way of penetrating the career they want to pursue. We all caught the work experience bug in year […]
Exeter Uni sees decline in applications from financially disadvantaged students
E xeter University is among other Russell Group universities who have seen a drop in the number of students from poorer backgrounds, despite extensive efforts to bolster numbers. Exeter University has suffered the biggest fall, at 2.6 percentage points down compared with 2004/05. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, less financially disadvantaged students have […]
Over 500 staff seek redundancy
A total of 525 staff applied for the University’s Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS) in the last academic year, an Exeposé investigation has revealed. An FOI request found that the one-off redundancy scheme attracted 13 per cent of all University staff from September 2014 to July 2015. 146 applicants came from Campus Services, the department largely […]