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https://t.co/MsobJ9iFzQ Durham University has said there will be mitigations in place for students affected by it

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https://t.co/iTwxTTARa8 Durham University has updated their original statement after a student was called a “dirty n****” by a society Equalities Committee member

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https://t.co/iUaszdLPSj The student has heavily criticised the university’s handling of the situation, but in a statement to The Tab, Durham has queried the student’s social media reporting

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https://t.co/8frKl1tTy4 This means students will have lost three weeks of teaching (nearly 10% of the entire year) and almost a thousand pounds’ worth of fees this year due to strikes

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Listen here to our Editor-in-Chief @lilywhear and News Editor @katieheckels1 talking on the @inter_gen podcast about the Durham student housing crisis, following on from our reporting of what’s really going on with Durham students and the rental market

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🎙️NEW PODCAST EPISODE!
What IF we didn’t have a cohort of struggling students?

University is expensive. How are students navigating this alongside the cost of living crisis when they have been largely forgotten?

Feat: @lilywhear @katieheckels1
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Catch up on our Editor-in-Chief @lilywhear’s conversation with Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care @wesstreeting about the student housing crisis on @LBC at around 12.25pm today. An informative and poignant conversation about rent hikes and the effect on students

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Hi @wesstreeting it was great to talk to you today on @LBCNews about the student housing crisis. The @guardian may have only just started talking about it, but here’s the piece we broke over two months ago!

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https://t.co/FnrKXovMv3 The Tab Durham has seen a police statement that Jimmy Allen’s nightclub is under investigation after a bouncer allegedly told a female student: “You better have a rape alarm on you, because it’s going to be either you or me screaming this evening”

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Me refusing to turn on the heating in the house until even my college puffer can’t keep me warm❄️

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Massive pickets today in Durham! #UCUstrike #ucustrikes #ucuRISING

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We’ve been working on this story for a while & it doesn’t get any easier to read. All Durham Uni students deserve to be able to live in Durham & have the full uni experience. We did the same application, achieved the same grades for our courses. No one should have to drop out.

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https://t.co/LfA4db0HRn In collaboration with @93clubdurham, testimonies from working class students in Durham reveal the true extent of the housing crisis. Shockingly, students are dropping out, deferring & simply cannot afford to live in Durham

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https://t.co/u81GukBbIs The Durham Grant is increasing next year, to what the university says is above inflation & everything but the threshold for the minimum grant has increased - it stays at £47,200, whilst the threshold for the maximum grant has risen from £27,000 to £30,000

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Alongside the video, the Durham SU also encourages other students to donate to the food bank and says they “recognise how this [the video] can undermine the significance of the problems currently facing students”

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https://t.co/3WVVyeu8VV Durham SU has been forced to apologise after making an ASMR video about its food bank for students who are struggling the most in the cost of living crisis. The @93clubdurham has called this a “deeply, deeply ignorant and damaging act”.

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Social secs when none of the freshers turn up again after ‘welcome drinks’ #durham #durhamuni

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Students report the quality of the houses isn’t improving - some come with rats and serious mould - and these figures value bills at around £50pppw. This year the average rent without bills is £122, and with is £143.43. At such a sharp increase - where is this money going?

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https://t.co/RxnATUUrp5 In an investigation by The Tab, we found the average Durham student rent without bills to be over £140pppw, and in contracts with bills included it’s over £190pppw. Figures are this high regardless of how many people are in a house

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Me trying to explain to the jimmies bouncers how my costume won’t be a danger to anyone else

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Want a Durham related Halloween costume? We’ve got you covered!