To broaden students’ horizons, universities must first broaden their reputations
The well-worn gap year to university path that so many of us have experienced is disquietingly close to becoming a process where rather than idealistically ‘finding ourselves’, quite the opposite is achieved. This detriment owes itself, in part, to the [...]
BDS: Can three simple letters spell liberation for one of the world’s most polemical conflicts?
The Israel-Palestine conflict is one fraught with passion. After the University of London Union passed a motion endorsing BDS last year, colleges like King’s and LSE have come under greater scrutiny for their ties with companies such as Ahava and [...]
Response: NUS and Anti-Apartheid by James Haywood
This article is a response to James Haywood’s article published in issue 7 Even by the standards of those who support the BDS, and call on the National Union of Students and others to support it, this article seems to [...]
Iran: is the Islamic Republic really the enemy?
Even thinking completely rationally, we are onthe brink of something pretty dangerous. As the Obama administration looks back on its predecessor’s mistakes (as well as its own) it can see it has achieved fundamental instability in Western Asia. US Foreign [...]
Anti-Semitism: still dangerous, still here
As students across the country prepared to return to study earlier this year, one graduate was being schooled by the French courts. The British fashion designer John Galliano was given a suspended fine for two incidents of racist and anti-semitic [...]
Gove’s education reforms: the ten-year experiment we can’t afford to try
Michael Gove has been both praised and reviled for the speed, audacity and extent of his education reforms. As he admits this week that it will take ten years to judge the results, it is worth considering whether his reforms [...]
Great debate issue 8: Were the UCL atheists right to publish the prophet? No side
The UCL Atheist Society claim to be the bastion of rational thought and open debate, and yet the use of an image depicting the Prophets Muhammad and Jesus having a drink in a pub to advertise a social was entirely [...]
The Internet Strikes Back
The 18th January 2012 saw the Internet rise up and rear its head in an unprecedented show of force, with online giants such as Google, Wikipedia and Reddit leading a massive campaign against SOPA and PIPA – the planned anti-piracy [...]
David Cameron’s visit to Saudi Arabia: Reflections
With Saudi investment in the United Kingdom totalling approximately £62 billion, it does not take a genius to understand why David Cameron wishes to cement a firm relationship with King Abdullah and Prince Nayif. Although I do feel that his [...]
Want a progressive future? Let Scotland break away
For a Scot living in London, it’s been an interesting week. The power play between David Cameron and Alex Salmond has been at times amusing, often irritating, but always fascinating. Doubt is the debate’s defining feature. No one can decide [...]
Twittering Recession Depression Aggressive Obsession
“Internet craze plays on fascination with banking culture” is the tagline to Financial Times’ recent about @GSElevator, the anonymous Twitter account that taps into the unruly world of banter in the Goldman Sachs Elevator. What’s going on? Anyone’s moral compass [...]
Holly Thompson: The positive side of a vocational degree
On Tuesday 3rd February, ITV screened their take on the higher education debate: ‘The Value of a Degree: Tonight’. The programme showed several sixth-formers being interviewed on what they planned to study at university or college by a panel of [...]
The US needs to look after its own
In 1967, photographer Al Clayton made a tour of the Mississippi Delta region of the US and captured images that shocked: young children standing by empty fridges, clearly suffering from malnutrition; dilapidated homes where families lived in cramped, unsanitary conditions [...]
To broaden students’ horizons, universities must first broaden their reputations
The well-worn gap year to university path that so many of us have experienced is disquietingly close to becoming a process where rather than idealistically ‘finding ourselves’, quite the opposite is achieved. This detriment owes itself, in part, to the [...]
London Loves Issue 10
I’m sat editing London Loves in a bedroom that smells of urine. And no, I’m not visiting my great grandmother in a NHS care home. In fact, I’m sat in my own bedroom minutes away from my University campus after [...]
Video: LSE water balloon attack results in clashes
Amateur footage obtained by London Student captures some of the attack on the LSESU Palestine Society, which was holding a peaceful demonstration at the time. You can read the story in full here.
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Abs Hassanali
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Abs Hassanali. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Ross Speer
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Ross Speer. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
Interview with The Manic Shine
The Manic Shine are a hot upcoming band. The band’s leader, Ozzie Rogers, hails from the LSE but has chosen the music industry, rather than finance, as his chosen career path.
The second sabbatical interview: an excerpt
In their second interview with London Student, Clare Solomon, ULU President, and Viktoria Szmolar, ULU Vice-President, discuss the current state of the student movement. This excerpt focuses on the momentum of student protest after the Christmas break.