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Money Writer @telegraph | MHP 30 to Watch Gold Winner 2024 and Hugh Cudlipp Student Award Winner 2023 | pieter.snepvangers @telegraph .co.uk
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Very excited to be a winner
@MHPC
😃
Two months ago I was asked to write a short piece about counterfeit stamps. It quickly turned into a far deeper investigation. I’m grateful for all the support I had from editors to keep digging and proud of the changes we brought about.
This year's
#30ToWatch
Journalism Award winners in the Personal Finance & Consumer Affairs category are:
🏆
@Jessica__Beard
,
@DailyMailUK
/
#MailOnSunday
🏆
@pietersnep
,
@Telegraph
Thanks to our category judges -
@collettasmith
,
@BBCNews
and
@Ben_Wilkinson_
,
@telegraph
See
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💥Exc: Bristol University is offering students £18 an hour to mark first and second year exams.
Sources in the school say it potentially breaks university’s own rules and Office for Students guidelines
@Bristol_UCU
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Excited to see my exclusive on the front page of today’s Sunday Times in Scotland.
From next week, I’ll be starting as a trainee reporter
@MailOnline
. Really looking forward to getting stuck in at a national newsroom. You can reach me at pieter.snepvangers
@mailonline
.co.uk
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POV: You’re a Glasgow Uni student who’s just been given a pointless piece of paper at graduation because your degree hasn’t been marked and the VC walks out to the Indiana Jones theme music.
Bizarre scenes at the first ‘sham’ graduation to be held since marking boycott began.
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NEW: Bristol Uni has said it has stopped negotiating with the Wills occupiers because they wore balaclavas when they entered the building last week
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Exc: Top British universities are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on pest control each year with spending up 49% in the past two years
From mice and rats to silverfish and wasp nests, inside the the pest problem nobody is talking about
A thread 🧵
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One of the proudest moments of my life so far.
I spend all day writing about students and fear too often their voices are forgotten about in the media. Thank you to
@DailyMirror
and
@londonpressclub
for shining a spotlight on five excellent pieces of student journalism tonight.
And the winner of the Cudlipp Student Journalism Award 2023 is
@pietersnep
His "timely piece" for
@TheTab
on the prospect of students cheating with ChatGBT made the judges smile - it was "funny and smart" and, "informative and entertaining" and followed up by much of Fleet Street
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Proud to see my investigation splash the Mail this morning 📮
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Having learnt lots in Dublin over the past three months, I’m excited to be back in London and joining
@Telegraph
as a Money Writer on Monday.
From selling multipacks of Coke out of my locker in year 9 to now giving ISA advice - I can’t wait to get started
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As the former editor of
@TheBristolTab
I couldn’t be happier my first national byline calls out this shoddy practice at my old uni.
Big thank you to
@bsmithjourno
for chasing this with me ✍🏻
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Fantastic to see
@TheTab
’s FOI data picked up in Metro this week
To the northern line commuter who invariably read it under the armpit of a fellow stranger, I hope you enjoyed 🤝
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📻 Fantastic to speak with
@MattChorley
this morning on
@TimesRadio
about the ongoing pest problem at British universities
£9k for Zoom lectures, unmarked dissertations and add to that some rodents in your halls - has there ever been a worse time to be a university student?
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The Tab: ‘Bristol Uni end negotiations with Wills occupiers at eleventh-hour because students wore balaclavas’
@RentStrikeBris
@Bristol_UCU
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What actually happens when you submit a university essay using ChatGPT?
Can you sneak a 2:1 or do you get a horrible scary email inviting you to a plagiarism disciplinary meeting? Here’s what I found out ⬇️
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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese factories are offering to produce up to 1m fake Royal Mail stamps every week for as little as 4p per stamp
Forgeries so good, even senior Royal Mail staff say they can’t spot the difference.
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18 months ago I wrote my first piece for The Bristol Tab about chips. I don’t think if you asked me then I thought I’d be joining
@TheTab
as an Assistant Editor less than two years later. Can’t wait to get started and help guide and mentor the next generation of uni journos 💥❤️
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EXC: Royal Mail U-turn and will stop fining customers for so-called counterfeit stamps
Victory for
@MoneyTelegraph
🏆🏆🏆
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New: More than a quarter of university students say they are now addicted to Elf Bars 🫁💨
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Sent out for my first doorstep at the weekend. No better place to start than with the president of Sinn Féin
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Hugely excited to be a finalist for the Hugh Cudlipp Student Award 2023.
As an Assistant Editor
@TheTab
, I’m equally proud to see three of the five finalists come from our local network of university teams from right across the country 💥
Congratulations to the finalists in the Hugh Cudlipp Student Journalism award.
@emilysmith_7
@oliver_gmurphy
@caomag11
Leah Peachey and
@pietersnep
. Winner announced tonight just before
@olya_rudenko
gives her
#cudlipplecture
@londonpressclub
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Not every day you get a page three in the Mail about Taylor Swift.
Delighted to be in Dublin working on the
@IrishMailSunday
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Exclusive: On the same day as Russell Group announces students will be taught to use ChatGPT ‘sensibly’ in their studies…
@TheTab
finds find 40 per cent of UK unis are currently investigating students for using it to cheat in assessments
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Why your childhood Lego is probably worth a lot more than you think
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Universities argue the spending reflects the large estates they manage however
@nusuk
said it represented “short term thinking” of universities amid an avoidance to actually fixing long term structural problems.
You can read the full story here:
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New: There were more than 1 million recorded visits to ChatGPT website at 8 Russell Group unis in December and January 💻
Universities who maintain ChatGPT bans are surely sticking their heads in the sand
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The Evening Standard has printed a two page poster for Taylor Swift fans ahead of tonight’s Eras Tour performance at Wembley.
With 250k+ Swifties travelling to Wembley by Tube this weekend, seems a pretty shrewd move to boost circulation.
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From whipping out Elf Bars in the library, whilst playing uni sports matches and when the lecturer's back is turned, here’s a look inside the takeover of the brightly coloured disposable vape
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Cool to see my British Gas story yesterday as a cartoon in this morning’s Metro
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Exclusive: Royal Mail finally commits to investigate why so many people have been hit with £5 fines despite buying stamps at the Post Office
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Ryanair would never…
Easyjet parent company sues indie band Easy Life for 'exploiting its valuable reputation'. Great story by
@MailOnline
trainee
@pietersnep
.
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New: An Oxford University lecturer has apologised for an old email in which he argued ‘blacks are more stupid than whites’
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‘At this stage, we are not attempting to negotiate with them’: Spirits remain high among the 12 Bristol Uni students who continue to occupy the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building
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I used to walk past BBC Bristol every day on my way into uni, nice milestone to get to work with
@JHolmesEsq
on this ChatGPT piece 💻 📑
My latest story for
@BBCBristol
is now live. Thanks to
@pietersnep
and
@VCUWE
for their time.
Mind-blowing that computers can write essays now - that wasn’t even considered when I was at uni 10 years ago 💻✍️🎓
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NEW: The first known student caught using ChatGPT by their university was rumbled after citing a book about witches and wizards in their essay.
You can’t make it up.
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In the space of an hour, popular student club, Lizard Lounge, have gone from blocking the organisers of next week’s Bristol club boycott, calling the account ‘unfair’ and a ‘direct attack’ on them to posting this on their story
Reeks of tokenism 👀
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‘He’s not pulled a rabbit from the hat - he’s a rabbit in the headlights’
Speaking to disgruntled Tories in St Albans and Farnham reacting to the Budget, striking how fractured the broad church has become. Plenty switching to Reform but just as many backing Labour/Lib Dems
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EXC: Gardaí have responded to 1,711 fireworks incidents in the past decade, only arresting 157 people and fining 34
It comes as Dublin Fire Brigade tell
@IrishMailSunday
they expect to receive up to 250 firework-related calls on Halloween night
The fireworks ban nobody obeys ⬇️
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#journorequest
Looking to speak with a university academic about the use of ChatGPT among university students. Have numerical data to share which gives best indication so far of its widespread use among UK uni students
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Finishing my essay ❌
Making Bristol Tab memes 👈✅
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At Durham University, one student told us he had to kill 22 wasps in one day following an infestation at Stephenson College this year.
‘When I reported it to the maintenance department I was told that they weren't going to take action because the cold snap would get them.’
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Great spot to dig this out and get the splash
@SamRGLawley
🤝🤝
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Over the past month, The Tab has surveyed 18,000 different uni students from 24 unis to uncover the nicotine chokehold Elf Bars have on students
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Current Oxford Tab polling shows 90% of Oxford students think the university should take disciplinary action Professor Bostrom, but just 11% think the uni will.
The university maintains its investigation in ongoing.
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PSA all student journos 💥
Cannot recommend enough entering the Hugh Cudlipp Student Award. It opened doors for me and gave me a kickstart into a notoriously difficult industry to break into and it can do the same for you.
Apply. Apply. Apply.
Student journalists can win £1,000 in the
@londonpressclub
Hugh Cudlipp Student Award 2024 - entries now open - full details here - please RT.
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‘If this was A-Level, more would have been done and faster’
Thousands of BTec students are still in the dark about whether they are going to university
#btec
#btecresults
#btecdelay
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More MPs are calling on Royal Mail to launch a full investigation into why so many people are getting fined for using barcoded stamps.
Tonight
@MPIainDS
becomes the first MP to call for a public inquiry
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A rather thinly veiled attempt at damage limitation from
#Bristoluni
as they attempt to silence their medical students 😶
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Great to see Bristol Uni prof
@berglund_oscar
passionately defend rent striking students.
@BristolUni
should not be allowed to intimidate 18 year olds without being held to account
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Read my investigation here:
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Last week
@thebristoltab
did polling that indicated 20% students are self isolating
⁃ Students are trapped between paying extra rent they can’t afford and spreading the virus
⁃ Most student contracts end 30 June
⁃ This problem is just starting
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The wildest story I’ve worked on all year
#Bristoluni
medics went on a coke bender, smashing antiques and stealing a statue at their Spring ball
Good to see future of NHS is in safe hands
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Having spent the past month editing stories all about the student housing crisis, I’ve read all of the unis’ different pitiful excuses for their lack of accommodation.
This is by far the most tone deaf.
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It’s crazy to think Bristol Uni used to run compulsory consent classes for first year students until 2017
Who on earth decided that was no longer necessary??
“One in 20 Bristol Uni students think flirting and what you wear is consent”
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Another great splash and customary pic in front of the news stand 💥💥
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And if you have a TikTok attention span: here’s a nice executive summary 🤝
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In balaclavas, carrying sleeping bags, roll mats and a football, the occupiers emerge on the steps of the Wills Memorial Building
#Bristol
#bristoluni
#willsmemorial
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On a slightly different note, I did some investigating into Met Éireann to dig out this exclusive
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Not only have the majority of students (53%) used Elf Bars this term, more than half (51%) didn’t smoke beforehand
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Sneak peak of
@BristolUni
latest study space on campus opening Monday ‘The Loft’
Very impressive
@Bristol_SU
👏👏👏
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More striking perhaps is his apology. Rather than taking responsibility, Professor Nick Bostrom begins by saying somebody has been digging through archives in a bid to embarrass him.
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Another student told us: ‘Our experience was absolutely awful. They let us live in abysmal conditions because we simply couldn’t afford anything better.’
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One Bristol University student has gone as far as to create an anonymous Instagram account allowing other students to send submissions of every pest found on campus.
‘I’ve had at least 100 DMs’
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‘I reckon universities think they can get away with ignoring these health hazards because at the end of the day, we don’t really have anywhere else to go’
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Morven, a first year Edinburgh University student has been living with a ‘rodent infestation’ in her flat since January.
She told us: ‘If I was applying to university this year, I wouldn’t be reapplying to stay in halls because I now have very little trust in the university.’
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The chips article in question if anyone in Bristol is feeling particularly moreish
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@leahxpeachey
@DailyMirror
@londonpressclub
Thank you Leah, really happy the trip down from Lancaster was worth it and you’ve got an award to take away with you (and to show off at Lancs Tab meetings!)
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Bristol Uni ‘embarrassed itself’ with ‘shambolic’ investigation
Uni capitulated under pressure from Israel lobby including students which he name drops
He goes on to say uni no longer safe for Palestinian, Arab or Muslim students
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Essex Uni students have to shell out £188-a-week to sleep in a building wrapped in flammable cladding. And worse. The uni have known for 3 years and done nothing…
Three years after an independent report found the insulation and cladding did not meet government regulations, hundreds of students at University of Essex accommodation, University Square, continue to live in the 10-storey buildings.
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An excited atmosphere building outside Wills Memorial as staff and students wait to greet the 12 Bristol Uni students who have occupied the building for the past 10 days
#Bristol
#bristoluni
#willsmemorial
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Another first year student at Edinburgh ‘seriously considered dropping out’ of uni after spending months on end listening to mice coming into their room each night through a hole in the wall.
Despite raising the issue, they said the hole was never fixed.
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@stbonscc
@DailyMirror
@londonpressclub
Ah that’s a really nice thing to say Milan. Read lots of great pieces from yours this year when I’ve ventured to read Epigram 😉
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@ConnorB06478695
@Unite_Student
Hi Connor, I’m an Assistant Editor at The Tab. I’d love to talk to you about this, would you be able to get in contact? I have dropped you a message on Facebook but I’m not sure if you’ve seen it - it’s probably in your requests.
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Heartwarming story coming out of
@BristolUni
@eoin_rollins
has the write up on this fantastic initiative 👇
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