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SOAS Running Out of Money? Not This Year: £11.2m Surplus Announced

SOAS Running Out of Money? Not This Year: £11.2m Surplus Announced

Lara Holly Gibbs, MA Gender Studies In December 2021 SOAS released their financial statement for 2020-21. The statement announced SOAS’ £11.2 million unrestricted surplus as opposed to its 2019-20 deficit of £0.9 million. The document details SOAS’ finances as well as their Strategic Plan going forward. According to

Support the Cleaning Staff, Sign the Petition

Support the Cleaning Staff, Sign the Petition

Gabriel Rahman, BA Politics and Development Studies and Frances Howe, LLB The Justice for Workers Campaign has launched a petition ahead of its meeting with SOAS Management on 3 February 2022. The petition is being circulated around students and demands that ‘SOAS Management honour their obligations to the safety and

SOAS Finally Welcomes the BA Africa and Black Diaspora

Frances Howe, LLB SOAS announced the launch of the BA Africa and Black Diaspora programme on 17 January 2022. The programme will accept entrants from 2022 onwards and seeks to replace the BA African Studies programme which was controversially discontinued by SOAS in 2020. The Tab reported on 6 October

Our Top SOAS Society Picks!

Our Top SOAS Society Picks!

Mahek Arora, BA Development Studies and Economics SOAS Feminist Economics Network Are you passionate about creating a society that is more just, equitable and fair? Interested in applying a feminist lens to economic theory/policymaking? The SOAS Feminist Economics Network is a network of academics, students, practitioners and campaigners working

Recording of Seminars No Longer Required per Term Two Guidelines

Recording of Seminars No Longer Required per Term Two Guidelines

By Lara Holly Gibbs, MA Gender Studies On 17 November, SOAS announced their term two teaching guidelines in an email to all students. The announcement requires that all students on taught programmes must return to campus. However, all exams will continue online in term three as part of SOAS’ continued

Strikes Demand SOAS to ‘Sit Up and Take Notice’

Strikes Demand SOAS to ‘Sit Up and Take Notice’

By Lara Holly Gibbs, MA Gender Studies On 1 December, SOAS staff began three days of strike action. Striking staff and students gathered on campus to form picket lines and support the strike action. Students were also encouraged to support the strikes by boycotting online learning inorder to avoid crossing

Noam Chomsky Discusses American Narcissism at SOAS

Noam Chomsky Discusses American Narcissism at SOAS

By Eesa Japal, BA History & Politics On 19 November 2021, Chomsky virtually conversed with participants of the Policy Forum Society at SOAS regarding American hegemonic narcissism. Before the US entered the war, high-level planners and analysts concluded that in the post-war world the United States would seek to hold