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Fourth Gown issue of 2010-2011 available now
Monday, November 1st, 2010
The fourth Gown edition of the academic year is now available across Queen’s campus. If you have any views on the stories covered, please leave a comment below.
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NEWS: Deaths “the unfortunate reality of struggle,” says Gerry Kelly at Queen’s
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Addressing the annual Sheena Campbell commemoration at Queen’s Students’ Union, Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly said deaths were “the unfortunate reality of struggle” during the Troubles. Throughout the course of the Troubles, he said ordinary people led extrordinary lives, and it is impossible to do his comrades justice. Sheena Campbell, a Sinn Féin activist and Law student at Queen’s University, was shot dead in October 1992, aged 29. The Sinn Féin branch at the university has since been renamed the Sheena Campbell Cumann.
BY CONNOR DALY
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Coalition cuts
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Illustration by Brian John Spencer
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NEWS: Calls to prevent Halloween disturbances in Holylands
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
A meeting was held earlier this month to discuss actions to prevent disturbances in the Holyland area this Halloween. The area has been renowned for significant street disturbances on public holidays and other occasions over the past number of years, in particular St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, Freshers’ Week and Halloween.
Kathryn McFall
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NEWS: Hundreds at Queen’s protest against Browne review
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Hundreds of Queen’s students today protested against the recent Browne review at Mandela Hall and outside the university. Student representatives from NUS-USI and the Students’ Union initiated the Union General Meeting at noon and asked students to back their motion to reject Lord Browne’s proposals. NUS-USI President Ciarnan Helferty called not only on students but on families as well to outright reject any proposal to increase tuition charges at Northern Ireland universities.
BY SEAN ASHFORD AND LAURA MCANENEY
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Tags: Browne, Ciarnan Helferty, Gareth McGreevy, Gown, Laura McAneney, Lorcan Mullen, NUS-USI, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Sean Ashford, student, students, su, The Gown
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NEWS: Shared education is the way forward, says former NI Secretary of State
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
A single and shared Northern Ireland education system must be the way forward, former NI Secretary Peter Hain told The Gown. Mr Hain responded to First Minister Peter Robinson’s recent description of the Northern Ireland education system as a “benign form of apartheid” by stating that an end to segregated schooling can be justified “on social grounds and grounds of breaking down divisions.” Hain’s comments came prior to his appearance at the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s where he spoke on the life of Nelson Mandela and of his own experiences as an anti-apartheid campaigner.
BY CONNOR DALY
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NEWS: Stuart review coincides with Browne release
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
After much speculation, Lord Browne’s review on the future of higher education funding and student finance in England has recommended an end to the current cap on university tuition fees and the endorsement of free market education. In contrast to this, the Stuart Review, compiled by Joanne Stuart of the Institute of Directors, has recommended that not only should fees in Northern Ireland stay the same, but more students throughout the province should receive help through increased maintenance grants. Education and Learning Minister for Northern Ireland, Sir Reg Empey, has thus asked Joanne Stuart to update her review, taking that of the earlier released Browne report into account.
BY SHONA MARTIN
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