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All semester one lectures to be held online

28th May 2020 • Students will continue have some on-campus face-to-face teaching each week....

Less than a third of all Newcastle professors female

21st May 2020 • Despite employing more female staff than male, less than one-third of all professors at Newcastle University are...

BREAKING: final years to receive compensation over strikes

20th May 2020 • Student who have been heavily affected by the strikes can expect to receive between £100 and £200 as compensation....

Data inundation: is it useful to compare countries?

9th May 2020 • Grace Dean discusses why we shouldn't always take statistics at face value, especially when comparing global COVID-19...

Policy Review: Mutual Combat

8th May 2020 • Kicking off a new segment for Comment, Muslim Taseer looks at one of the oddest laws in America...

Students in halls told to move to Park View

20th April 2020 • To ensure their safety and security, residents of University-owned halls are being moved to Park View Student Village....

George Floyd and the fight for equality

31st May 2020 • Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. Breonna Taylor. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. And now, George Floyd. All of these are names of...

Rewriting history in television

17th May 2020 • Steven Ross discusses the dangers of re-writing history as fiction in several hit TV shows....

No Black professors at Newcastle, findings suggest

4th May 2020 • 90% of Newcastle University lecturers were white in the 2018/19 academic year....

Wildlife returns to West Jesmond during lockdown

3rd May 2020 • A pesky pigeon was spotted inside a vacant student property in West Jesmond....

Is Sweden’s approach to coronavirus effective?

28th April 2020 • Kate Lovell on the Swedish response to coronavirus, and how applicable it is to other countries...

Is Johnson a good leader?

27th April 2020 • Faye Navesey reflects on the prime minister's political career, and how well he's been able to handle the pressure...

Are parallel universes actually real?

24th May 2020 • You can usually find me talking about science-fiction films but recent news has seemingly made fiction a reality. So,...

Is Hollywood as glamorous as it seems?

10th May 2020 • Kate Dunkerton reviews Netflix limited series Hollywood and its exposure of abuse in the industry....

Newcastle designing and producing PPE for NHS

7th May 2020 • Two types of protective visor are being developed by the University to alleviate PPE shortages....

Single Review: ‘The Key To Life On Earth’ – Declan McKenna

5th May 2020 • Amelia Thorpe reviews the latest single from Declan Mckenna's next album Zeros...

Harry and Meghan: have the tabloids gone too far?

27th April 2020 • There has been a ruthless campaign against Meghan Markle and her relationship with Prince Harry from the very...

The artists fighting against coronavirus-related racism

27th April 2020 • Caitlin Rawlings discusses how Instagram artists are responding to the surge in Anti-Asian sentiment caused by...

The Courier News

Newcastle grad arrested for reporting on NYC protests

1st June 2020 • While photographing the "pandemonium" between police and protesters, one officer threw Gray to the ground using his...

Grace Dean| 1st June 2020

North East company lends sewing machines to make gowns for the frontline

31st May 2020 • Grace Piercy shines a light on the North East company helping the frontline..;...

Tyne Collective launches to support independent businesses

29th May 2020 • Our twenty fourth good news story looks at how businesses are being helped so that the...

All semester one lectures to be held online

28th May 2020 • Students will continue have some on-campus face-to-face teaching each week....

The Courier Sport

Liverpool FC: all-time dream XI

1st June 2020 • Ben Harris, a long time Liverpool fan, talks us through his all-time XI...

Ben Harris| 1st June 2020

The Courier: 14 days of sport – day 14

25th May 2020 • For day 14 of our sports challenge, the prompt was 'Favourite sporting moment/event...

The Courier: 14 days of sport – day 13

24th May 2020 • For day 13 of our sports challenge the prompt was 'Favourite sport to play'...

The Courier: 14 days of sport – day 12

23rd May 2020 • For day 12 of our sports challenge the prompt was 'Who do you support and why?'...

The Courier Comment

Making black lives matter – how can you help?

1st June 2020 • If I say ‘black lives matter’ and you say ‘all lives matter’ then you realise the intentional killing of...

Freda Tuor| 1st June 2020

Reprimanding Maitlis makes her the media’s fall woman

1st June 2020 • Holly Margerrison unpacks the complexity of impartiality in broadcasting....

George Floyd and the fight for equality

31st May 2020 • Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. Breonna Taylor. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. And now, George...

Why Newcastle needs to fix its staff gender imbalance

26th May 2020 • Hattie Metcalfe discusses the Courier's recent revelation that less than a third of all...

The Courier Culture

Explaining exploits: when gaming glitches can be good

1st June 2020 • George Bell discusses why a game cheat can sometimes be pretty neat....

George Bell| 1st June 2020

How not to lose the plot with a plot twist

1st June 2020 • Croc-lover George Bell ponders on the best and the worst of plot twists within film...

TV show episodes that we can’t bear to re-watch

31st May 2020 • Our writers tell us about the episodes that are too sad to revisit...

Leonie’s Lockdown Picks

31st May 2020 • Leonie Bellini lays down her lockdown picks...

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