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East Asia Department Announce All Language Classes Online

East Asia Department Announce All Language Classes Online

By Ruby Punt, Comparative Literature MA On 28 September, the East Asia department announced via email their decision to keep all language classes online in a bid to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and ensure all students have access to their classes. In the department’s original email, it was

Mental Health

SOAS leads in mental health intervention

Destiny Adeyemi, BA African studies SOAS is being praised for having short response times for its student mental health care, with students waiting 1.2 days for support on average. A study on the quality of university mental health services by Sir Norman Lamb has revealed that most universities have

Climate Emergency demonstrator

SOAS changes with the climate

Rose Sauvage De Brantes, BA English and Japanese It is the 20th of September 2019. Yesterday, SOAS declared a climate emergency. Today, delegations of SOAS staff and students are assembling in the streets of London to join the Climate Strike, while Unison is holding lunchtime talks by environmentalists in the

Resisting Facism event

Kashmir solidarity event stormed by masked activists chanting Jai Hind slogans

Mahnoor Chaudhry, BSc Hons Economics and Politics Modi’s racist and narcissist policies have led to such a lack of intolerance, and extremist tendencies in his followers that they now fear even intellectual discourse and discussion, what is most alarming is that they have now even reached the UK. On

Valerie Amos

Director to leave SOAS for Oxford with bittersweet legacy

Will Durrant, BA History SOAS Director Valerie Amos will step down next summer to take the top spot at University College Oxford. Back in London, the search for SOAS’ next Director has already begun. Baroness Valerie Amos will leave SOAS at the end of this academic year after nearly five

The Demise of the Oldest Dark-Net Marketplace

The Demise of the Oldest Dark-Net Marketplace

George Smith, BA Social Anthropology Ask yourself, what would you do if Amazon or eBay shut down? Gone, disappeared. How about that website which sends you those organic status-enhancing vegetables in the post? I’d imagine the answer for most of us would be simple, go to the next best

SOAS Ranks First in ‘Extreme Events & Speakers League Table’; Third Year in a Row

SOAS Ranks First in ‘Extreme Events & Speakers League Table’; Third Year in a Row

Sabrina Shah, BA International Relations In January, the Henry Jackson Society Student Rights Project published their annual report on “Extreme Events and Speakers” taking place on university campuses. For the third consecutive year, SOAS has been ranked first. According to the report, SOAS hosted “42 events” with either “extreme” views