COMPUTER science students claim they are losing several hours of valuable teaching time due to lecturers having to spend their time marking dissertation projects.
SWANSEA University academics will join an estimated three million public sector workers in a one-day strike over pensions on Wednesday.
Members of the University and Colleges Union, the union for academic staff, will join members of 19 other trade unions in what’s anticipated to be the biggest strike for a generation.
Freedom of the press has been brought in to question in Mexico over the sacking of well-known radio and TV journalist Carmen Aristegui, following comments calling for President Calderon to respond to claims over alcohol problems allegedly plaguing him.
Japan’s sumo association has cancelled its entire forthcoming tournament after the sport was hit by a number of bout-fixing allegations. Three wrestlers have already admitted to being involved in the scandal and a further eleven are accused.
NOMINATIONS FOR Student Union Sabbatical Officer election candidates will close this Thursday, and we at The Waterfront decided to find out what students thought about this year’s nomination process and the upcoming election.
XTREME RADIO aired nationally last weekend in a two hour show broadcasting the most played tracks of the station from 2010.
The student station participated in a weekly national slot in which University stations all over the UK broadcast the show, meaning that thousands of students tuned in to Xtreme Radio’s show at 3-5 on Sunday, February 13th.
A secondyear History student is attempting to raise £2,500 for the Help for Heroes Charity.
In September 2011, Chanai Operanta will trek The Great Wall of China to raise much needed money for members of the armed forces who have been wounded serving their country.
In the aftermath of Southern Sudan being granted independence following a referendum, it is believed that around 200 people have been killed after being chased into a river by rebel forces.
Last month, a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl from the Shariatpur district near Dhaka died just a few days after receiving a public whipping, in an incident that has shocked the nation.
MUMBLES PIER is facing possible closure due to safety concerns.
The Victorian structure’s condition is deteriorating, and will be closed if inspectors deem it to be unsafe for public use. A spokesman from the company which owns the pier, Ameco, commented that the pier is, “reaching the end of its useful life”.
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY paints the town green in Environment Week 2011 which will take place between Monday 28th February and Friday 4th March in Fulton House Refectory each day from 10am.
This gem of an event will be providing free giveaways and advice on how you can be ‘Green’ yourself.
A man has been arrested on charges of armed robbery in Seattle in the United States. It has been described by some sources as “one of the politest cases of theft ever caught on camera”.
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY has given the Urdd National Eisteddfod a boost, with the announcement of an innovative science partnership at the annual youth festival, to be held in Swansea in May.
THE FUTURE of the university system in Wales has been placed into doubt with the announcement that a merger of three institutions has been agreed.
Members of the University of Wales Council have been discussing the possibility of the formation of a so-called ‘super university’, with the eventual aim of reducing the number of separate institutions from eleven to six.
TWO SWANSEA students, Chris Church and Ash Gardner, are set to spend their Easter holidays on a gruelling 315 mile trek across isolated regions of mid-Wales in order to raise money and awareness for Cancer Research UK.
Woody’s Bar is looking to accommodate the influx of 109 American students who moved into the Village this year designing events that will specifically interest them. Boston Beer Pong gets its name from the Boston Tea Party, although Manager Daz Thomas assured it has nothing to do with dressing up as Native Americans and dumping overtaxed beer into the sea.
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