Queen’s has climbed four places in the QS World Ranking’s, one of 29 UK establishments to place in the top 200.
BY BEN FINCH
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NEWS: Queen’s phones crash as A-Level results released
Phone lines at Queen’s crashed on Thursday due the volume of calls Admissions received about A-level results. According to member of staff all departments were affected. Attempts to contact different areas of the university were met with engaged tones.
BY BEN FINCH
NEWS: NUS Awards honour QUBSU Equality & Diversity
QUBSU picked up the NUS Equality and Diversity Award for 2011 on Wednesday night. Over 500 attended the ceremony hosted by Leeds University Students’ Union.
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FEATURES: East African famine
“Man, am I starving!” is a common utterance in households worldwide, a gross exaggeration for most people, but not for children in Somalia.
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SPORT: Is now the perfect time to stage the Open in Northern Ireland?
Darren Clarke’s magnificent win at the weekend at the Royal St. George course in England has cemented Northern Ireland’s place as the current golfing capital of the world. Three major winners in thirteen months are from the north. Moreover six winners of the last seventeen majors have come from the island of Ireland. Surely the time is right for the Open championship to return to these shores for the first time in over half a century.
BY SEAN ASHFORD
NEWS: School of Dentistry investigated by GDC
The General Dental Council has carried out an inspection of Queen’s School of Dentistry following a complaint about the amount of resources directed at teaching.
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REVIEW: The Killing
Mention an American remake of a cult classic and chances are you’ll be met with despair, moans of anguish and an extravaganza of eye-rolling. Fans of Asian horror know more than most the terror of being greeted by a badly written and poorly acted copy imitating a much loved original. Lately however, American studios have turned their sights to northern Europe and the influx of Scandinavian films and television shows that are ripe for the picking. From the Swedish ‘Låt den rätte komma in’ came the 2010 ‘Let Me In’. Lisbeth Salander, the infamous girl with the dragon tattoo, is being transformed at this very moment into an American duplicate. Even the 2009 ‘Brothers’ with Toby Maguire and Jake Glyllenhaal is based on a Danish original.
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