Newcastle University: Students receive cash reward for golden behavior

Newcastle University: Students receive cash reward for golden behavior

A recent study revealed that in more than 10 percent of the anti-social incidents in UK campuses students of Newcastle University are involved. To put an end to this rowdy behavior, the university is now offering a cash reward of £1000 to the students who behave best for one month. It is the university’s ‘best neighbor on campus’ scheme. Students are nominated by the local residents based on activities such as keeping the streets clean, not smashing the bottles on the streets etc. Will Ovenden and Oli Armitage are among the five students who have won the cash reward. Students are excited after winning the prize money and said that some of it will be spent in arranging a party. The country, right now is witnessing an increase in the disruptive incidents among the students and according to the Freedom of Information data obtained by The Times, the students of Newcastle university received more punishments than any other in the Britain. The University is also known as the rowdy University. Therefore, to keep the student’s behavior in check the University introduced best Neighbour on Campus scheme. The scheme layouts the criteria for winning the prize and how it will be equally divided among the housemates. The prize is given the house where there is ‘Evidence of students who have shown a demonstrable commitment to being good neighbours’.

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