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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 […]
Will Durrant, BA History More than half the students at SOAS have never met with their Academic Advisor, The SOAS Spirit has learnt. A Students’ Union survey, which has reached 147 students so far, found that only 57% of students know who their Advisor is, whilst just 38% have ever met with their advisor. Several […]
Khadija Kothia, BA History An intrusion at Dinwiddy House has caused students to become anxious about security failings at the SOAS undergraduate accommodation. Students report that at 3 am on Sunday the 14th of October, a man in his twenties entered the accommodation building behind a few students, chased two female students up the staircase […]
University in financial crisis following crash in undergraduate intake By: Jude Omidiran, BA Economics & Development SOAS management has disclosed that the university is facing a massive deficit, following a 40% collapse in undergraduate enrolment over the past two years. The Executive Board called an emergency meeting to reveal the £7.1m gap in the […]
Caren Holmes, MA Postcolonial Studies In March 2018, SOAS accepted a controversial gift from American alumni, Mary and Paul Slawson. The gift, a 13th-century Thai sculpture, housed within the Brunei Gallery, is estimated to be worth more than €60,000 but lacks documentation of its transactional history. Dr Angela Chiu, who has a PhD in Thai […]
