By Pia Lenarduzzi International students have emerged as the new victims of Sydney’s worsening rental crisis, with UNSW’s Arc legal and advocacy team receiving increasing numbers of complaints about young tenants being exploited by unscrupulous landlords. According to an Arc Legal and Advocacy representative, who asked that their name not …
Read More »An Investigation on a Novel Contract Cheating Model: Ghost Class Services
By Amiabelle Kong I had an undercover conversation with an agent working for a cheating company to understand what it’s like inside the cheating industry. The following is a conversation I had in a UNSW student group on WeChat about students coming to UNSW in 2022. Me: “There …
Read More »NUS report calls for lowering Youth Allowance age restrictions from 22 to 18
By Amiabelle Kong The National Union of Students (NUS) is campaigning for Youth Allowance payments to be increased above the poverty line and for age restrictions for eligibility to be lowered. This is based on a recent NUS report which surveyed 673 students aged 18 to 21 on poverty impacts …
Read More »Is AIESEC a Cult? We investigated | part 1
By Emma Partis A Reddit post earlier this year attracted some damning comments from individuals claiming to be former members, urging other UNSW students to avoid the organisation. Numerous Reddit posts from other university pages around the world echo this sentiment, and a Quora post featuring one user damningly comparing …
Read More »UNSW’s new colleges are here, but at what cost?
With the new Kensington Colleges buildings on the verge of completion at the end of last year, hundreds of incoming and returning residents were looking forward to spending 2014 in the brand new facilities. Daniel Sherratt, a second year resident, was one of them. That was before, however, he saw …
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