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By John Stack, Second Year, Mathematics BSc The Chief and Deputy Chief medical officers of the UK announced earlier this week, in a rare consensus statement, that ‘very few, if any, children or teenagers will come to long-term harm from Covid-19 due solely to attending school’ and that this ‘has to be set against a certainty of long-term harm to many children and young people from not attending school.’ This comes after a major report on the topic by the Royal Society’s Data Evaluation and...

By JohnJoe Stack, Second Year Maths The value of a university degree has halved in the past 20 years according to new research. The study, by the Higher Education Statistics Agency found that graduates born between 1989 and 1990 earned 11 per cent more than their non-graduate peers, however those born in 1970 only earned on average 19 per cent more. Critics of higher education argue that the figures suggest that a university degree is no longer necessary in improving employability.

By John Stack, Second Year Mathematics and Philosophy The renaming process took place over several months and consisted of online surveys, street surveys, workshops and consultations. A Freedom of Information request by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that the renaming of Senate House, cost the University at least £20,000. This comes following a report by Epigram in June that it had been decided that Senate House would retain its original name.