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By: Jacob Loose, CISD Masters When we visited Oxfam’s London office, we learned about the Oxfam Theory of Change. It is based on the principle that first people ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Our visit was designed to help representatives from various universities set up their […]
Mehraj Sheikh, BA History SOAS UNICEF on Campus is a student-initiated branch supporting UNICEF’s work, by hosting events to fundraise for the charity’s cause. We are proud to say that 100% of the money raised goes directly to UNICEF. This is the first year that the society is running at SOAS, and we have […]
Sumayyah Daisy Lane, BA History Twenty-one migrants thought to be from Vietnam were found inside a refrigerated lorry entering the UK. The group included eleven children, some as young as twelve, and ten adults. The lorry, transporting crates of sparkling water which hid the group, was discovered at the port of Newhaven in Sussex. The […]
Doulton Hall, BA Development Studies and Social Anthropology In February of this year, the UK’s Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, revealed new plans for universities to reduce tuition fees for humanities and social sciences to £6,500 instead of the £9,250 currently charged. Critics of the proposal have voiced fears concerning the enhancing of an already entrenched […]
Holly Sampson, BA Middle Eastern Studies and World Philosophies In the next term, SOAS will be implementing a new tool for reporting an incident of harassment or abuse to the School.Report+Support is an online reporting tool that was initially created by the University of Manchester and can be bought by other universities to be used […]
Frances Everett, BA International Relations and Development Studies News Editor of The SOAS Spirit Students at the University of Reading have been told to take “extreme precaution” when reading an assigned left-wing academic text after it was flagged as “sensitive material” under the Prevent programme. This flagging of a text, which is described by Waqas […]