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Several truckloads of agricultural chemicals and containers were sent off for recycling from free collection days held in Taranaki this week.

Student gets £5k compensation after diss supervisor offers higher grades for sex The lecturer was allowed to keep their job 2 days ago A student has been paid £5,000 compensation after their dissertation supervisor offered them higher grades in exchange for sex. When the student complained of the harassment, she was given a new dissertation tutor, but was not told what action the university had taken. Seven months later, they were informed the supervisor had kept their job and simply been told not to contact the student. The student complained to a watchdog, who ruled the university didn�...

Watchdog pays out £742,132 in refunds amid concerns about online learning during Covid-19

Universities and colleges were told to pay students a total of £742,132 in compensation last year.

Student complaints to the universities watchdog over teaching, supervision and course-related facilities have surged during the year of the pandemic. More than two in five (43%) of the complaints received by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) from students were about “service issues” – which includes complaints about disruption caused by industrial action and the coronavirus pandemic – compared with just 29% in 2019. Complaints from students about disruption to their university due to the pandemic accounted for 12% of all those received in 2020. But the OIA, which looks a...