Dear UK #Students, get yourselves on the #ElectoralRoll right now as you will be at home in July. Tell you families, tell your neighbours, tell your friends.
First and foremost, we had more than 20 wonderful participants at #YoMos2024, ranging from Bachelor- to #PhD- level #students all modelling #ecological systems. Everyone had the chance to present their projects and methods and we had vivid question+discussion rounds afterwards. Although #YoMos seems like a niche group already, we heard about a bandwidth of methods including mechanistic #eco(-evo)-models, #SDMs, #climate and vegeation models, network models, #Machinelearning, #AI and much more.
The only 24-hour library on Vancouver Island, the #VIU university library is steps away from the pro-Palestinian #protest encampment that was set up at the VIU quad early Tuesday morning.
The statement did not give a reason for the increased #restrictions.
Isabelle Easton, director of campaigns and community relations for the students’ society, said the group is looking into having #MandatoryTraining for all students during orientation at #UVic, in partnership with university administration.
💕 The students of Yemen send a message to #Students around the world. Despite difficult relations between countries, the students are finding their way in solidarity.
#Illinois School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored
A state #law was meant to help #families by allowing the use of public money to fund students’ tuition at special education boarding #schools around the country.
But in solving one problem, lawmakers created another.
“By a slim margin, #Dartmouth undergraduate #students have voted ‘no confidence’ in President Sian Leah Beilock’s leadership in the wake of a controversial crackdown on pro-[#Palestine] #protesters earlier this month, Dartmouth Student #Government announced on Wednesday.
She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.
Police officers at the University of California, Irvine [UC Irvine] move towards students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza, on May 15, 2024 [Mike Blake/Reuters]
New research/polling from The Sutton Trust outlines the impact of the cost of living crisis on students & their experience of university.
Around two-thirds of students have needed to take on part-time work while studying, with an impact on their studies including missed classes as well as missed assignment deadlines.
While more evident for students from the most deprived areas, many rich(er) students also need to work to survive university.
More power to these #students demonstrating for a #FreePalestine. Seinfeld is a Zionist whose wife literally funded the mob of pro-#Israel thugs who physically assaulted the nonviolent #UCLA encampment. #Duke#protest
“In the dark of night, dozens of men wearing black or blue sweatshirts with full-face white plastic masks, some with Israeli flags draped on their shoulders, converged on the #UCLA encampment that #students had assembled in peaceful solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinians of #Gaza.
Armed … [and] chanting anti-Arab, anti-Black, and anti-Palestinian slogans, the mob set about attacking students and #faculty in the camp.”
Police arrest a protester during pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the City College Of New York. More than 2,000 people have been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests across dozens of US college campuses in recent weeks
Police officers remove a pro-Palestinian protester outside the University of Amsterdam during a protest in #Amsterdam, Netherlands. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw