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Complaints over SOAS caterers' casual contracts

Complaints over SOAS caterers' casual contracts

Caterers Elior are at the heart of a new scandal over the treatment of outsourced workers at SOAS after whistleblowers revealed a catalogue of complaints to The SOAS Spirit. Elior employs a number of workers at SOAS on precarious casual contracts, where workers have no guaranteed hours per week and

Goodbye, Tata Madiba

By Sabeehah Motala, LLB Law On Thursday 5th December, the world lost arguably the most iconic politician that ever lived. Mr Mandela – a leader, father of a nation, revolutionary, freedom-fighter, boxer and lawyer – passed away in the comfort of his home in Johannesburg, South Africa. The anti-Apartheid hero has found

Unrest in Turkey continues

Unrest in Turkey continues

“This is not a company, it is a university. We are not clients, we are students,” METU students in Ankara. Students of the Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Ankara, have taken matters into their own hands after government-sponsored construction workers deforested several trees in the university fields in the hope

Suu Kyi dismisses ethnic cleansing claims

Suu Kyi dismisses ethnic cleansing claims. Pro-democracy campaigner and general secretary of the opposition National League for Democracy party Aung San Suu Kyi has dismissed claims of ethnic cleansing against Burma’s Royhinga Muslim minority. Speaking to the BBC’s Mishal Husain on 24 October, Suu Kyi responded to accusations

Police clash with students at ‘Save ULU’ demo

A demonstration opposing the abolition of the University of London Union (ULU) by University of London management has ended in clashes with police. Around 200 protesters assembled outside ULU and processed through Bloomsbury, passing Birkbeck and SOAS. The University of London, which has banned protests from taking place at Senate

Egyptian speaker chased away by mob at SOAS

Mohammad Tahboub and Tom King [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7im3vcp7GfM&desktop_uri=/watch?v%3D7im3vcp7GfM&app=desktop] Pro-coup talk called off after Muslim Brotherhood protest A video published online and obtained by The SOAS Spirit shows a representative of the Egyptian Tamaroud movement being chased

SOAS given £20m donation from Alphawood foundation

SOAS given £20m donation from Alphawood foundation

The University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has received what is said to be one of the biggest donations ever to a UK university. The £20m gift would be “transformational”, SOAS said to the BBC. Read the full story here.