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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
A general rule of life is that the more things change the more they stay the same. In a 1994 episode of The Simpsons we get a look inside the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Inside the Republican National Convention, banners with “we want what’s worse for everyone” and “we’re...
Demands for reparations will not go vanish anytime soon, but disagreements over reparations need not stop Britain and the Caribbean from building a new relationship. Britain has paid compensation for slavery before. In 1833, Parliament set aside £20m for slave owners who were losing what British law had treated as...
At first glance, it’s easy to mistake the Scottish National Party for a progressive one. Nobody would blame you. How could they? Just look at how loud the SNP are on Palestine; in 2010, the late Alex Salmond had attacked Israel’s actions on the high seas against a Gaza-bound boat....
Lifestyle
We’ve all said things we regret, and, perhaps more often, regretted things we never said. We’ve rehearsed speeches in the shower that were never given, whether they should have been or not. Most of the time, it is fear that keeps our words in check — whether that be fear...
It’s four o’clock on Sunday afternoon, and you’ve finally kicked the nasty hangover Why Not inflicted you with last night. But instead of feeling rejuvenated, you find yourself fighting a rising tide of anxiety. The reason? Your laptop sits on your desk, uncharged and unopened despite your midterm essay being...
Had one too many drinks at Sneaky Pete’s or stayed too long at that random afters? As we wade through the post-Halloween November blues and into the season of winter gloom, here are some well-tested cures to beat the soul-crushing university hangover, from someone who has definitely seen the worst...
Science & Environment
A major clinical trial cuts risk of dying and relapsing for cancer patients. The trial cut the risk of patients dying or their cancer returning by 42 per cent. It involved 1,137 people who had surgery to remove high risk melanoma; two-thirds were given the new vaccine on top of...
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is framed by its proponents as the saving grace to our climate catastrophe. Big oil can continue to burn all the fossil fuels they like, simply suck up all the carbon dioxide and pump it into the ground instead. A win-win solution, right? Chancellor John...
A group of four NASA astronauts have just spent 378 days in a 3D-printed isolated capsule, taking part in a simulated mission to help NASA prepare for a future expedition to Mars. During the mission, entitled Crew Health and Performance Analog (CHAPEA) crew members successfully cultivated crops, conducted robotic operations,...
Sport
Students have criticised the University of Edinburgh Sports Union’s move to make them pay a full year’s gym membership. The controversy first gained attention in late September this academic year, when over 45 of the university’s sport clubs were informed via email their gym membership would have to be upgraded...
The Lululemon x The University of Edinburgh sportswear collab is designed to offer “top-of- class comfort” to students wherever they go. Available in-store and online at the University of Edinburgh Gift Shop, and at the Lululemon store in Edinburgh, the 19-product collection features high-end apparel and accessories. With a price...
When you think of sports societies, your mind probably goes to rugby, football, or tennis. But what would you think about armoured combat with blades? The Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) Society scratches that itch. HEMA is the practise of historical combat blending martial arts and weapons training. With roots...
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