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Nigel McCollum, MA South East Asian Studies with Thai Since the very sorry saga when Pro-Director Professor Rao ‘leaked’ the course cuts documents, we have seen the reputation of SOAS exposed in both the UK and Indian Press. While of course, each and every one of us make mistakes, I
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Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Zaina Erhaim, hailing from Idlib, Syria, has spent 9 years in the field of journalism, reporting largely in print and online news media. Once the revolution of her homeland turned to civil war, with each day casualties and displaces persons growing in their tens
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Jordana Belaiche, BA Poltiics I am surrounded by the warm dim light of the Brunei Gallery. It looks exceedingly different to the polished corporate space that I remember, a space dedicated to showing off SOAS’ wealth – generally used for events including symposiums, landmark anniversary exhibitions and various cultural events and
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Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish On the 25th September, SOAS announced that they would be providing 7 new scholarships for refugees at an undergraduate and postgraduate level in time for the next academic year. Two days prior to the announcement, The SOAS Spirit had published an article containing comments
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Alistair Rooms, BA History and Politics To show the wealth of SOAS academics, Alistair Rooms has decided to interview various teachers with a set of simple questions. Hopefully we will learn more about SOAS academics and gain some pearls of wisdom. Stephen came to SOAS in 2002 and is an
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Will Sheret, BA History and Politics On December 1st the Government will publish the newly updated electoral register after an 18 month transition period to change the Electoral register from its traditional ‘Head of Household’ model to Individual Electoral Register (IER); whereby everyone is required to register individually. Whilst it
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When I saw Luke McManus’ piece, Does the Political Correctness of Students’ Unions Undermine their Decisions? in the online edition of the SOAS Spirit, I almost stopped reading there and then. The juxtaposition of an attack on the ‘Political Correctness’ of unions with a picture of the train tracks at
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Jonny Morrison, BA Politics In an address to staff on Thursday, SOAS director Valerie Amos had laid out plans to increase cuts to the school budget by 117%, from £3million to £6.5million, by removing post-graduate growth targets and taking into account recruitment for this academic year. This comes a
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Clotilde Yap, BA Chinese (Modern and Classical) When I first joined the University of London chamber choir, I thought I had just made a big mistake. As I was outside the room, waiting to go in for my audition, I realised I hadn’t properly sung with a choir for
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Caitlin Shewell-Cooper, BA English and Swahili The first UGM (Union General Meeting) of this academic year took place on Thursday 8th of October in the JCR, packed full of students. For those who aren’t familiar with this part of student union democracy, UGMs occur once a month and are
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Sophie Bush, MSc Development Studies Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg has condemned the government’s ‘anti-terror’ strategy, labelling it a ‘toxic brand.’ He was speaking to students and members of the public at an event held at UCL and coordinated by SOAS’ Decolonising Our Minds society. The controversial strategy, called