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Return to university delayed for selected student groups

2nd December 2020 • New government guidance asks students to return at staggered starting dates after Christmas to minimise the spread of...

Newcastle MP writes to Matt Hancock following Newcastle tier decision

27th November 2020 • Joe Molander on the fallout from the announcement of tiers post-lockdown...

Manchester students win 30% rent reduction

27th November 2020 • The Owens Park Tower occupation comes to an end. Lucy Adams reports...

Thousands of students to be tested in new asymptomatic testing site on campus

27th November 2020 • A new testing site has been set up on university campus in order to help get students home for Christmas safely....

Victory for virtual Diwali

20th November 2020 • Shalayna Sakaria explains how Diwali prevailed despite lockdown...

UCU pass motion to ballot for industrial action

5th November 2020 • Ella Williams and Ella McCaffrey on the latest developments with the UCU ...

Around the world in style: Russia, the Philippines, and India

1st December 2020 • Writers from different cultural backgrounds delve into the history of their heritage, and share how traditional attire...

Newcastle MPs look back on October free school meals vote

13th November 2020 • Joe Molander talks to MPs in the weeks after the motion was voted down ...

Confessions of a sabb

20th October 2020 • Postgraduate Officer Charlotte Paige Boulton on the backlash against sabbs, and whether or not it's fair...

The silver-lining of lockdown

19th August 2020 • Carl Smith Valdez reflects on what lessons the lockdown has taught us. ...

Entering my twenties and what I’ve learned from Anne Shirley

24th July 2020 • Kate Lovell finds kinship with L.M. Montgomery's Anne Shirley in this book review...

“Art can help someone with trauma”: interview with Disabled Artist

23rd July 2020 • Joe Molander talks to the person behind the abstract geometric works gaining traction on Instagram ...

Newcastle University confirms that staff and student data has been leaked to dark web

5th November 2020 • Joe Molander on the latest fallout from the cyber attack...

UCU Secretary criticises in-person teaching

27th September 2020 • Lucy Adams on the rise in university COVID cases, and its implications for student welfare...

Local lockdown: what’s changed for students?

17th September 2020 • Kate Lovell on what's changing at midnight tonight...

Large Australian python found in Jesmond Dene

7th September 2020 • Editor Ella Williams reports on the giant snake spotted in Jesmond last Sunday...

Can we trust influencer activism?

24th June 2020 • Ibraham Jobe investigates the power of social media influencers and why it's so imperative that they use their...

After this, the flood: the economy after the virus

23rd June 2020 • Two of our writers consider how COVID-19 will change the jobs market...

The Courier News

Return to university delayed for selected student groups

2nd December 2020 • New government guidance asks students to return at staggered starting dates after Christmas to minimise the spread of...

Ella Williams| 2nd December 2020

Newcastle and Sussex Universities to use Lateral Flow Devices for COVID-19 testing

2nd December 2020 • Only a few days before student COVID-19 testing begins, Dom Lee reports on the latest...

County Durham baby expected to live for minutes celebrates her first birthday

2nd December 2020 • Alice Holmes reports on local baby with Spina Difida who defied the odds and celebrated...

Newcastle University students campaign for safety net

2nd December 2020 • Students are campaigning for another safety net for this academic year. Kayleigh Fraser...

The Courier Comment

Capitalist Stockholm Syndrome and the free period products pushback

5th December 2020 • Scotland has become the first country globally to make period products completely free. While this sounds like an...

Victoria Osho| 5th December 2020

Priti By Name, Ugly by Nature

5th December 2020 • On Wednesday 2nd December, just before Christmas and during a global pandemic, the Home...

Why the ‘Christmas Advert’ should not be celebrated

4th December 2020 • The yearly Christmas adverts have managed to ingrain themselves as a cultural British...

The year for Newcastle University in review

3rd December 2020 • Gemma Powell looks back at the many trials and tribulations in 2020...

The Courier Culture

Why art galleries should be free to enter

12th December 2020 • Lucia Qureshi argues that all art galleries should be free, especially during our pandemic times....

Lucia Qureshi| 12th December 2020

The connection between Human Rights and Art

11th December 2020 • To celebrate Human Rights Month, Tiyanna Mistry explores the connection between Human...

Stuck in a book: the best fictional worlds to spend Christmas

10th December 2020 • Christmas is such a large part of so many novels, but in which world would Christmas be...

Exhibitions and epidemics: 2020 in art

10th December 2020 • Iona Lowe reviews a turbulent year for the art world, and looks at what 2021 holds in...

The Courier Sport

A Sporting Year in Review

10th December 2020 • What. A. Year. As quickly as people may want to forget 2020, we thought we'd remind you of some of the biggest sporting...

multiple writers| 10th December 2020

How I trained during Lockdown

8th December 2020 • In a very strange year, Emily Oakshott has had to adapt from a life of marathons in Paris...

Should we be having international breaks amidst a pandemic?

7th December 2020 • The answer to this question is very simple and clear… No. We should not have...

The man, the myth, the new Sheffield Wednesday manager: Tony Pulis

4th December 2020 • Tony Pulis, 62, joins the Sheffield Wednesday team by becoming their new manager. As part...

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