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Spending by the University of Edinburgh’s college offices — the management tier that sits above its schools — rose by a third in the year staff were told £140m had to be cut, The Student can reveal. The Student broke down £1.81b of departmental spending across the 2023/24 and 2024/25...
The University of Edinburgh is set to continue with cuts as the academic year progresses, with the School of Social and Political Science (SPS) being “asked to deliver a savings target of £3m” over the next two years, The Student understands. In an internal email seen by The Student sent...
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Imagine being twenty-five years into your career as an actor: you’re still booked and busy with five movie premieres in one single year. You are a respected artist and childhood icon to an entire generation. All while Emily Blunt and Dakota Johnson are both claiming the paternity of your unborn...
April 2026 saw the release of Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, a biopic about Michael Jackson. Following in a long line of biopics currently dominating cinema, it stars Jaafar Jackson, Michael’s nephew, as the late Pop giant. However, a spectre haunts discussions of the film. In 2019, the documentary Leaving Neverland (2019)...
The trailer for Brand New Day (2026), the fourth Spider-Man movie in the MCU, was released last week, promising the most poignant movie in the quartet. Following the end of No Way Home (2021), Peter Parker is all alone as he tackles not only a new mysterious enemy but also...
Opinion
The Bolsonaros have once again failed to win control over the levers of power, with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva securing a fourth presidential term in Brazil, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro in a neck-and-neck race. How did Lula, condemned to a near-certain defeat after Brazil’s first-round elections, manage to achieve a...
Andy Burnham has encouraged UK households to stock up on three days’ worth of bottled water, tinned food, and emergency supplies, emphasising the importance of preparedness in case of a national crisis. This advice follows a series of serious weather events that have swept Britain, with Storm Austen placing over...
Upon first glance, not much would appear to have changed in the Main Library. To the average student, the laptops look the same as they ever did before— and yet, a costly change has taken place in recent weeks. The addition of ‘Flexible Learning Spaces’ to the second floor of...
Lifestyle
I am not unfamiliar with the big SAD (seasonal affective disorder). Like clockwork, it knocks on my window around this time of year, bestowing me with its infamous doom and gloom. The five minute walk to the shops feels like a marathon, and I find myself leaving my room less...
Ingredients: 450g parsnips 500g carrots 1 red onion 150g quinoa (or couscous if you prefer) 300ml vegetable stock 1 tin white beans (butter beans, cannellini beans or haricot beans – whichever you like most) 160g kale 3 tbsp olive oil 1.5 tbsp mustard 1.5 tbsp honey 1 tbsp cumin seeds...
For a week straight I got rejected, until I didn’t. As a result of deliberately placing myself in a precarious position, I managed to get myself a hot date, but let’s not jump ahead of ourselves. To be entirely honest, I didn’t originally start my week with the mindset that...
Science & Environment
Teeth, ribs, a right hand, and a shoulder blade with a puncture wound 15mm wide. These are all that remain of a Neanderthal man who may give us greater insight into just how violent life was for our human ancestors. Excavated from the Shanidar cave, in Iraqi Kurdistan, archaeologists believe...
A testicular tissue transplant surgery to preserve fertility has been conducted on a 19-year-old man by NHS Lothian in Edinburgh, following his childhood cancer treatment. This surgery is the first of its kind in the UK and only the second reported worldwide. Semen freezing for adolescent and adult males before...
Google has committed total landscape devastation in rural northern Finland, where a once-thriving boreal forest has been reduced to a bare expanse of sodden silt. Over recent months, an estimated quarter of a million trees have been illegally felled from a 330 hectare site near the town of Muhos. On...
Sport
The first leg of the inaugural Rugby Nations Championship saw Scotland place second in the Northern Hemisphere Table, with the second leg starting on the 2 November for Scotland’s 21st game against the All Blacks at Murrayfield. The stadium has become known for New Zealand’s 100-year winning streak, encompassing all...
Fans are the backbone of sport, ensuring its commercial relevance. Lately, however, fandom has also been the source of much criticism. Every supporter wants their team to be on top and their favourite player to be in their best form. But is this possible all the time? Each and every...
This weekend marks the end of a thrilling Women’s Six Nations (WXV) competition, with just four more games to be played. The highlight of the competition, however, has certainly been Canada’s unprecedented unbeaten run against England. The Red Roses are the most successful international rugby team ever and are the...
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