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Assessing The UWI’s rich success and history Article by May 15, 2021 After 15 seasons of competing in the major Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Championships, Sagicor Life University of West Indies (UWI) are by far the richest club in the island, based on their amazing success. Granted Division 1 status for the first time in 2006 by the Keith H.L. “Tony” Marshall-led BCA administration, the Cave Hill-based men have been excellent in the three-day, 50-over and Twenty20 Competitions, sweeping to 16 titles all told. They have captured the Elite (rebranded in 2012 fro...

Claire Chandler is the youngest member of the government, but her views wouldn’t be out of place among much older conservatives.

Exclusive: Exeter University in no-platforming row as societies told to uninvite external speakers Students' union accused of 'effectively no-platforming debating society's entire term card' by demanding online events are deferred 18 February 2021 • 9:00pm Exeter University said it has a 'clear track record of supporting freedom of speech within the law' Credit: Jay Williams Exeter University has become embroiled in a Zoom no-platforming row after the student union told societies to postpone all external speakers and claimed they pose a "significant risk". The union, known as the Guild, has...

News by Lea Emery Premium Content Subscriber only WORKING side-by-side with politicians became a dream for Brittany Higgins when she was studying public relations and business at Griffith University. The lifelong Gold Coaster was drawn to politics after a mentorship program through the university. Ms Higgins would then intern with Bonney MP Sam O'Connor, helping out in his office while she was still at university. It was there she would hear about a Canberra-based job with former Moncrieff MP and Minister for Defence Industry Steven Ciobo. She would rem...

The University of Exeter has apologised after a leaked email appeared to show a senior staff member equating student email protests with “cyber terrorism”. Today, a student email protest has been organised by group Students for Academic Mitigation. In an email allegedly sent by Jamie Horsley, the university’s Head of Education Services, she said “I would equate such actions to cyber terrorism” and called it a potential “damp squib”. In a statement from Jamie Horsley, published by the university, she apologised for the “unwise choice of words” used. In her email she said: “...