Parties target turnout for May 17th by-elections
Campaigning intensifies for a double by-election takes places on the University and Scotforth rural ward on the 17th of May,
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Spine Shortened – Wetlands area ditched
The redesign the spine project faces mounting difficulties after it was revealed that large parts of the redevelopment project have
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UA92 faces new difficulties as backing council falls to Labour
University Academy 92, the sports-centric Lancaster campus under construction in greater Manchester, faces an increasingly uncertain future after the Conservative
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Decision to hold Grad Ball at Lancaster draws criticism – and a rival event
The news that Grad Ball is to be held in the Great Hall this year instead of in Blackpool tower
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Government in unprecedented intervention on campus free speech
Sam Gyimah, the new minister for Universities, has announced sweeping reforms to external speaker policies, in an attempt to preserve
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Interview: the Broad (a free speech-focused student comment site)
The Broad is a new student-run comment website based on principles of free speech, whose authors claim that freedom of
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Degree fail rates at low
Freedom of information requests have revealed the low number of students receiving fail grades, sparking fears of grade inflation at
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Lancaster University “likely to have broken advertising rules” over prospectus claims
Lancaster has become the latest British University to face a rebuke from the Advertising Standards Agency over misleading advertising, after
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Lancaster University ranks third for the largest gender pay gap
Lancaster University reveals a big disparity between male and female employees’ earnings. The gender pay gap is the percentage difference
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Lancaster City Council By-Election
The date of the by-election to elect new councillors for the University and Scotforth Rural ward has been announced and
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“A glorified school disco” – plans to move Grad Ball to the Great Hall fall flat among students
Students have reacted angrily to the news that Grad Ball will this year be held in Lancaster University’s Great
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Strikes suspended after UCU members agree to proposals
University staff have agreed to the latest proposals regarding the national pension dispute. The strike action which effected 65 universities
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Crime in Lancaster
Police are appealing for witnesses after students were victims in three unconnected incidents in Lancaster during the course of the
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Double by-election on the horizon as University Ward councillors step down
Two Labour party councillors for the University and Scotforth Rural ward have today resigned, meaning that by-elections to the Lancaster
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Union on the defensive in ill-tempered AGM
A poorly attended general meeting was the scene for an exchange of questions and recriminations as Union Full Time Officers
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