The student life has fallen far short of expectation over the last year
In the first of a three-part series on how the pandemic has affected university life, Helen Chandler-Wilde explores how the current cohort of university students have suffered
They were so desperate that they pinned pleas for help in the windows: “SOS”, read one; “Send food”, read another. All 500 students in Parker House, Dundee, were confined to their tiny bedrooms for two weeks after an outbreak of Covid-19 in the halls of residence last September.
It was a particularly severe lockdown. The safety-proofed windows only opened a crack, so fresh air was at a premium. The laundry room was shut down, so students spent two weeks in dirty clothes. If they wanted to use their kitchen, they had to book a slot on a rota so they did not cross paths with their flatmates.
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11:11 AM May 13, 2021
A volunteer from Newham Community Project and Islamic Relief UK hands out food parcels on Saturday, May 8.
- Credit: Islamic Relief UK Vulnerable international students struggling in the Covid-19 pandemic have been thrown a lifeline by two charities.
Newham Community Project and Islamic Relief UK handed out tinned tomatoes, lentils and chickpeas to more than 700 students on Saturday, May 8.
The portions of items, which included tea bags and biscuits, were also given to almost 70 students with families. In total, 500 parcels were distributed.
Abdulla Almamun, UK programmes coordinator for Islamic Relief UK, said: We saw huge queues this weekend of vulnerable families in urgent need of food in Newham and we shouldn t be seeing this in the UK.
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Islamic Relief UK and Newham community project distribute 500 food packs to international students in London who are struggling financially during Covid-19
On Saturday 8 May, Islamic Relief UK partnered with Newham Community Project food bank to provide 500 food packs to international students and their families in London, who have been struggling financially during Covid-19.
Food packs with big portions of items such as tinned tomatoes, chickpeas, lentils, tea bags and biscuits were given to over 700 students and nearly 70 students with families.
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Why isn’t Switzerland progressively closing its wealth gap? The question is important in the context of the intense ongoing debate from Washington to London about a wealth tax.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused government debt to soar and led to calls for substantial new levies on the rich. The argument goes that the wealthy should pay their fair share and growing inequality must be addressed.
Switzerland is supposed to offer a template. Not only does it have the highest density of millionaires in the world, it has a recurring annual wealth tax, which goes back 181 years. It consistently generates more income than the other three European countries that also have a wealth tax or some version of it. In 2017, the Swiss wealth tax contributed 3.6 per cent to the total tax takings. That’s respectable, compared to the 1.1 per cent generated by Norway’s wealth tax, the 0.55 per cent raised by Spain’s and the even lower sum brought in by Belgium’s limited wealth tax on securit