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February 13, 2012
Miliband helps Labour students’ pay fight

MP David Miliband visited Swansea last week as part of a wider campaign to urge universities to pay all staff the living wage.

MP David Miliband visited Swansea last week as part of a wider campaign to urge universities to pay all staff the living wage.

The event “David Miliband in Conversation” was organised by Labour students to launch their living wage campaign, and hosted by Professor Jonathan Bradbury of the politics department.

Before the sit-down, Prof Bradbury and Mr Miliband spent time with Swansea Labour students helping collect signatures for the living wage campaign petition.

January 23, 2012
Film: Review

From Aardman, the creative team behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, comes a festive tale that tells the story of the ‘Christmas’ family.

From Aardman, the creative team behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken

Run, comes a festive tale that tells the story of the ‘Christmas’ family. One

Christmas, a child was missed from Father Christmas’s list - it would seem he

didn’t check it twice. Whilst Father Christmas’s oldest son Steve (Hugh Laurie)

seems content to let this slide, the younger of the Christmas siblings, Arthur

(James McAvoy) is set on making sure this child gets her present before

December 12, 2011
Faraday lecture block set to be transformed in £2.75m makeover

THE Faraday lecture building is set to undergo a £2.75m transformation. 

THE Faraday lecture building is set to undergo a £2.75m transformation. 

The 11-month project will start in January 2012 while students are home for the Christmas break and will then continue over the Easter and summer holidays to ensure the least disruption to teaching.

The building is over 40-years-old and while the rest of campus has had a modern revamp, Faraday has been left in the 1970s with its tired and monotonous look.