Callum Mason

So, you’ve chosen to come to Edinburgh for your higher education; this is an excellent choice. You’ll get four years of ‘unay’– unlike the three you’d get for a standard degree in the rest of the UK – you’ll be spending your time in arguably the most beautiful city in the United Kingdom, and (if it’s the University of Edinburgh you’re planning to attend), you’ll get to put on your CV that you went to an institution ranked in the top 20 in the world.

Last Sunday, ‘Uptown Funk’, remained static at number one in the UK Singles Chart for a seventh consecutive week. On the charts listing, you will see that the song is credited to Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, yet if you open Mark Ronson’s Vevo channel on YouTube, you will see that the top comment, with 147 up-votes reads: “Shouldn’t it be Bruno Mars – ‘Uptown Funk’ with Mark Ronson somewhere in the background?”

Earlier this month, the media trade magazine Press Gazette launched the ‘Save Our Sources’ campaign to prevent public authorities spying on journalists’ phone records.

The campaign followed revelations that the Metropolitan Police (the Met) had secretly obtained the mobile phone records of Tom Newton Dunn, political editor for The Sun, in order to identify whistleblowers who had exposed an argument between police officers and former Government Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell back in 2012; in what became known as the ‘Plebgate’ scandal.

There are currently 86,000 people in prisons in the UK, and around 61,000 are currently suffering from two or more mental health disorders. This is hardly surprising, when we consider the conditions that prisoners operate under.

Two students have reacted with disgust after they were removed from campus buildings and detained by royal protection officers ahead of a visit from Princess Anne on Tuesday.

Hona-Luisa Cohen-Fuentes and Euan Kidston had been studying in the university's Old College buildings when they were removed by staff further to the imminent arrival of the princess, who is the university chancellor.

According to Edinburgh University Students’ Association trustee Mike Shaw, who wasn't present at the time,

Students are up in arms this week after a controversial fraternity founded at Yale University in the United States established a chapter at the University of Edinburgh.

The chapter is a branch of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity, which is currently suspended at Yale for vocally promoting rape culture.

The Yale chapter was excluded for five years in May 2011, after new members were videoed marching across the New Haven, Connecticut campus chanting "No means yes! Yes means anal!"

Accord

An Edinburgh-based interior design business has been heavily criticised this week after advertising six unpaid, six-month-long ‘work experience internships’ on the job posting website Gumtree.

Thousands of students in Bulgaria have brought universities to a standstill over the past two weeks, to demand the resignation of the country’s government, which they claim is corrupt.

Students at 15 universities across the country are now occupying buildings and preventing teaching in protest at the centre-left coalition. The sudden rash of occupations have also sparked violent demonstrations, particularly in the capital, Sofia, from those supporting the protest, and from counter-campaigners.