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While NME send young and nubile reporters to the glitzy rock n roll hot beds on the other side of the atlantic. Namely LA and New York, Student Direct now have their very own 'foreign correspondant', however funds permitting we could only just get him past the Watford Gap. However Simon Borkin will be innundating the SD with all the musical goings on in the capital on a weekly basis, not that it even compares to what goes on here in Manchester! muhaha!
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Peace Child International (PCI), a youth-led development and educational charity with consultative status at the United Nations. They are currently seeking a full-time schools outreach team-leader to join its team of international interns. The opportunity is for twelve months, starting in early summer 2005.
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Peace Child International (PCI), a youth-led development and educational charity with consultative status at the United Nations. They are currently seeking a full-time editor to join its team of international interns. The opportunity is for twelve months, starting in early summer 2005.
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The well renowned charity organisation Oxfam has launched a nationwide internship programme and is appealing to volunteers to apply to the 60 roles available annually across the organisation.
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Andrew Jackson
Opportunistic student touts have forced the Manchester Students’ Union to take action to try and protect the sales of sought-after Torremolinos tickets.
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Catherine Bolsover
News Editor
THE INFAMOUS partnership of Piccadilly 21’s nightclub and the Wednesday AU Social is now over, with the regular student night forced to find itself a new home.
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Claire Miller
STUDENT VOTERS in South Manchester played a vital role in the Liberal Democrats unexpected victory in the Manchester Withington constituency.
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Geraldine Pugh
A UNIVERSITY STUDENT has vowed to continue her studies despite having won a £3m Lotto jackpot.
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Laura Wales
Smokers who drop their cigarette butts in the city centre are now facing a £50 on the spot fine in an effort to clean up Manchester and help the environment.
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Geraldine Pugh
MANCHESTER’S EQUIVALENT of the Oxbridge boat race proved a huge success last weekend as over two thousand spectators turned out to watch the University of Manchester battle against its rowing rivals Salford.
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Rachel Rouse
A new website has been set up for those who can’t get over student life, and are apparently still having trouble making friends of their own; matching up groups of graduate boys and girls to go out and ‘make friends’.
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Natalia Bremner
MANCHESTER RAG has succeeded in raising the extraordinary total of £120 000 so far this year for various local, national and international charities.
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Nadia Ghani
TOP UNIVERSITIES are setting targets that favour state school pupils over independent pupils in return for being allowed to set higher fees, according to a report published by The Times.
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The international drugs trade is worth about 8% of total international trade, and the UK is a large market for both exporters and importers of drugs. As domestic production of drugs is severely limited, the UK drugs trade relies on imports from other countries. Whilst this seemingly makes little impact to the average user in Britain, the drugs traffic chain stretches across the globe. The drugs we buy in Britain directly influence other developing economies, fuelling a dependence on the narcotics trade. Student Direct looks into the drugs trafficking routes into Britain and where the drugs on our streets have come from.
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Student-Direct’s online drug survey has now been completed, here are the results.
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Rachel Rouse
MORE THAN 100 of the supposedly cleverest students in Britain risked their lives last week when they jumped 25 feet into the THREE foot deep River Cherwell.
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First Person Report
Beatrice Lowe
Most students are already aware of the "Make Poverty History" campaign. However it’s support amongst the student body was confirmed last week when speakers addressed a filled to capacity Academy 2 at the Make Poverty History and G8 Protest talk
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News: Hate Mail
Posted by: Webteam on Monday, May 09, 2005 - 01:00 PM |
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Fiona Eatwell
News Editor
Over the bank holiday weekend, in the last days leading-up to the Election. a Manchester based human rights group – Manchester No Borders – distributed 30 000 copies of a spoof version of the Daily Mail across British cities.
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David Bridger
Unison - the trade union that represents some lecturers - is denying rumours of a bitter dispute with the staff at Manchester Metropolitan University’s business school. The fallout occurred after the Met was accused of “institutional racism” in a letter from the North West regional secretary of Unison, Paul Foley. The leaked letter was quoted in the Times Higher Education Supplement and provoked a furious response from Manchester Met.
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Nadia Ghandi
GREATER MANCHESTER Police have arrested five people as part of a tax and drugs investigation centred on a city club security company.
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STUDENTS AND Staff around the University of Manchester are mourning the recent death of Ben Harvey, who passed away on Friday April 15th.
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Alex Wood
THE STUDENT guild at Aston University in Birmingham has become so concerned by the decline in drinking that it is planning to switch to juice and noodle bars in order to boost revenues.
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Rachel Rouse
THE LARGEST gay pride event in Europe, Manchester Pride Festival, has announced plans to host a sports tournament as part of this year’s festivities.
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A drinks promotion put on by Budweiser may be responsible for a student’s death, an inquest heard last week. David Plunkett, a Leeds Metropolitan student, died in April of last year after attending a Budweiser promotional event held at Manchester’s Daytona track in Trafford Park.
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Alexa Gainsbury
THE UNIVERSITY of Manchester Students’ Union hosted the NUS’s second annual International Students’ conference last week. Students traveled from as far as Aberdeen and Plymouth and from countries of origin as distant as South Africa and The Gambia in order to attend the one-day event.
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Alex Wood
News Editor
INNOVATIVE STUDENTS at Oxford University have come up with a novel way of paying their tuition fees, rent and bills.
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Dance Fever
Posted by: editor on Monday, May 09, 2005 - 10:52 AM |
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Dance Fever
Catherine Bolsover
News Editor
Manchester student Adam Spencer is one of the talented dancers tipped for the top in BBC1’s ‘Strictly Dance Fever’. Dancing every Saturday night for a chance to stay in the show, psychology student Adam has been in the show for five weeks so far and is looking to make it through to the final.
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Alex Wood, Catherine Bolsover and Fiona Eatwell
A Student Direct survey on drug use has revealed the high extent of drug use by Manchester students. An overwhelming 75% of students surveyed have taken illegal drugs, 44% of which do so on a regular basis.
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The best of the rest of the festival...
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Catherine Bolsover
Kinky guide to the sex industry ‘Street Map for Men’ has revealed the full extent of Manchester’s sex trade – listing the city’s 113 ‘massage parlours’ and escort services. The high number of parlours in the city has led the book’s author to crowning Manchester “UK capital for massage parlours”.
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