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• “Reject the University’s lack of transparency” – LUSU President as General Meeting is called
  A General Meeting will be held by Lancaster University’s Students Union (LUSU) on Thursday of Week 14. One of the primary motions on this term’s agenda is regarding Lancaster University’s Business Process Review (BPR). Former Vice Chancellor, Professor Paul Wellings, first announced the BPR in November of last year, labelling it as having an objective […]
• Costa ‘Book of the Year’ awarded to Lancaster alumnus
  A Lancaster University alumnus has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award for his sixth novel, Pure. Andrew Miller, who received a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster in 1995, was presented with the prestigious award and a £30,000 prize cheque at a ceremony in London. Pure, described by The Guardian as a […]
• University establish ‘Anuj Bidve Memorial Scholarship’
  The memory of student Anuj Bidve is to be honoured in a new annual scholarship awarded by Lancaster University. The ‘Anuj Bidve Memorial Scholarship’ will be awarded to a student graduating from the University of Pune in India, to fund further study for an MSc in the Engineering Department at Lancaster. The 23-year-old Mr Bidve, […]
• Blackwell’s book store opens on campus
  The renowned Oxford-based bookshop-chain, Blackwell’s, has opened a branch on the Lancaster University campus today in place of the recently-vacated Waterstones. Louisa Duff, Marketing and Communications Manager for the Facilities Department, told SCAN that it is “important to stress” that the store opening will be “with limited stock.” However, Scott Hamilt […]
• Falsely accused ‘Terrorist Spy’ visits campus
  Laura Kay reports on the visit of James Yee to Lancaster University campus, ex-US Army Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay formerly incarcerated under the Bush administration. […]