Canterbury’s paper of record since 1717, the Kentish Gazette, is used to its fair share of criticism.
Some of that criticism is deserved but Unified’s article headlined Kentish Gazette Get Personal: Lies, Lies, Lies simply got it wrong.
It accused our coverage about the return of the Cathedral city’s students of being fabricated, slanderous and fictitious. It was not.
It criticised us for not acknowledging the role students play in boosting the economy or recognising the contribution they make to the voluntary sector. We covered both aspects - on the front page and …

Uni Life - paying too much for our studies, delayed student loans, and no one will employ us!
Student life is supposed to be all about endless parties and drinking coffee in the campus cafeteria between lectures. Or this is at least what we see in the films. Of course there are the hard studying and the exams but in general being a student should be a fun part of everybody’s life. Unfortunately there are always two sides of the coin. For many students life is slipping somewhere between a tight …

Students’ face more money worries as the Government look to increase the amount we pay for our education
As if university tuition fees weren’t already expensive enough, the government is considering a dramatic increase from the current average of £3,225 to more than double that figure, seeing the cost of further education reach an all-time high of £7,000 per year.
A recent BBC survey found that two thirds of UK university vice-chancellors feel it necessary to increase yearly tuition fees in a bid to meet the rising expectations of students, with a …

Pub crawls for first year freshers is condemned in the local and national press
Carnage, the UK’s most well known student night out returned to Canterbury last month. Hundreds of students flocked from bar to bar around the town, just having time for a couple of drinks before being moved on to the next venue.
Carnage is notoriously known to be the night where students get drunk, dress inappropriately and disrupt the town. After the media have been disgusted by how students have acted on Carnage in recent weeks, the question is …