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Durham UCU announces new strike dates until September with plans to disrupt uni open days

The uni has promised ‘detailed mitigations’ will limit disruption

Durham UCU announces new strike dates until September with plans to disrupt uni open days

The uni has promised ‘detailed mitigations’ will limit disruption

Durham UCU announces new strike dates until September with plans to disrupt uni open days

The uni has promised ‘detailed mitigations’ will limit disruption

Durham has just won University Challenge for the first time in over 20 years!!

We love you Scully, Margaux, Radcliffe and Bennett xx

Durham has just won University Challenge for the first time in over 20 years!!

We love you Scully, Margaux, Radcliffe and Bennett xx

Durham has just won University Challenge for the first time in over 20 years!!

We love you Scully, Margaux, Radcliffe and Bennett xx

Applications to join The Durham Tab’s editorial team are now OPEN

Applications close at 23:59 on Sunday 21st May

Applications to join The Durham Tab’s editorial team are now OPEN

Applications close at 23:59 on Sunday 21st May

Breaking: There’s going to be a UCU marking boycott from 20th April

There will also be continued strike action until the end of September 2023

Breaking: There’s going to be a UCU marking boycott from 20th April

There will also be continued strike action until the end of September 2023

Every Durham 2023 finalist will be given a Durham University signet ring upon their graduation

The university has said it’s to make up for a ‘compromised student experience’ due to the pandemic

Every Durham 2023 finalist will be given a Durham University signet ring upon their graduation

The university has said it’s to make up for a ‘compromised student experience’ due to the pandemic

Durham Uni vows ‘to learn’ after admitting student’s apology for racist abuse was inadequate

‘We will endeavour to ensure that responding parties offer meaningful apologies which fully acknowledge what has gone wrong, and accept full responsibility for this’

Durham Uni vows ‘to learn’ after admitting student’s apology for racist abuse was inadequate

‘We will endeavour to ensure that responding parties offer meaningful apologies which fully acknowledge what has gone wrong, and accept full responsibility for this’

Durham student called a ‘dirty n****’ by society member on Equalities Committee

She has heavily criticised the university’s handling of the situation, but Durham has queried her social media reporting

Durham student called a ‘dirty n****’ by society member on Equalities Committee

She has heavily criticised the university’s handling of the situation, but Durham has queried her social media reporting

Durham student called a ‘dirty n****’ by society member on Equalities Committee

She has heavily criticised the university’s handling of the situation, but Durham has queried her social media reporting

Scheduled strike action at Durham for the next two weeks has been paused

Hurray for finalists, maybe not so much for anyone else with 9ams

Scheduled strike action at Durham for the next two weeks has been paused

Hurray for finalists, maybe not so much for anyone else with 9ams

Scientists at Durham University have just solved a huge cosmological enigma about the Milky Way

The research places Durham firmly at the centre of fundamental physics

‘He pushed me against the wall and unbuttoned my shirt’: Students report further incidents with Jimmy’s bouncers

Jimmy’s say five bouncers have been fired since the first allegation came out

‘You better have a rape alarm on you’: Police investigating Jimmy’s bouncer for sexually harassing student

‘I had no idea what to do in the situation because they were so intimidating’

Part Two of introducing the Fight Night fighters, and wow do they look fierce

If you thought the first lot were good, wait until you see these fighters

It’s what you’ve all been waiting for: Part one of introducing the Round Four Fight Night fighters

They’re fit, fiery and ferocious, and coming to an arena near you

Increases to the Durham Grant mean the minimum grant will be over £500 more next year

The threshold for the maximum amount has also increased to £30,000

Durham SU forced to apologise after making ASMR video about its student food bank

‘The attempt to aestheticise a student food bank is a deeply, deeply ignorant and damaging act’

Durham SU forced to apologise after making ASMR video about its student food bank

‘The attempt to aestheticise a student food bank is a deeply, deeply ignorant and damaging act’

Durham will have lecturer strikes for three days this month

All other UK universities will have strikes too

Durham students told Chinese exams will likely be in person, despite finalists not having a year abroad

One student even chose to transfer degrees after not being able to go abroad

Durham Uni website suggests average weekly rent is £60-100, but The Tab finds it to be over £140

If only rent was this cheap in the housing crisis!

Durham students driven to queuing overnight on the street again amidst housing crisis

Students have been queuing since 6.30pm and expect to be there at least fifteen hours

Durham students driven to queuing overnight on the street again amidst housing crisis

Students have been queuing since 6.30pm and expect to be there at least fifteen hours

Politics exams will all be online this year after The Tab finds 77% of Durham students prefer them

Hurrah for online exams

Durham Uni to receive report on how it deals with student mental health

Hopefully it gets points for the Welfare petting zoos

English students ‘can have a high degree of confidence’ exams will be online again

Durham is expected to announce at the end of October about whether all exams will be online again

Durham falls to 198th in the world according to The Times Higher Education rankings

In the 2022 rankings it placed 162nd in the world

Durham University launches £2 meals on Too Good To Go

Hatfield, Cuth’s and Castle college catering are on the site so far

Come and write for The Tab Durham

Reason 1: We meet at the pub

Police investigating after Durham University students shot with an air rifle at a boat party

Three students were hit, with one suffering minor injuries to her leg

Police investigating after Durham University students shot with an air rifle at a boat party

Three students were hit, with one suffering minor injuries to her leg

Durham University actually once had a Harry Potter module

The discontinued module is the closest thing to a ‘Harry Potter studies’ degree that the higher education minister is trying to clamp down on

Durham has been named Sports University of the Year

The Times and The Sunday Times’ Good University Guide 2023 has just published its league tables

An investigation into the infamous Jimmy’s Jerusalem remix

We’ve your answered Durfess post prayers

Durham University LFT sites will close by the end of this month

The uni will be reviewing its ‘test to participate scheme’ this week

The Tab Durham X GCCFS Charity Xmas Party

Join us for a night of Y2K bangers, gossip and charitable causes

Durham University’s Chancellor Sir Thomas Allen to step down at the end of the year

He has been one of the University’s longest-serving Chancellors

‘Don’t get spiked’, Durham University says in now-deleted social media posts

One person commented: ‘How about don’t spike people instead?’

‘Don’t get spiked’, Durham University says in now-deleted social media posts

One person commented: ‘How about don’t spike people instead?’