The Graduate: Dogs and Journalism
I have a job. Yes, like a real proper job. Last week I wrote about how I was torn between, in the words of Cheryl Cole, ‘fighting for this love’ and pursuing my dreams of becoming a journalist, or taking [...]
The Graduate: Bottom of the food chain
I have often sat and thought to myself ‘I wonder what a baptism of fire would really feel like?’ Then I started work experience The Sunday Times and I found out. For the last two weeks I have become a [...]
The Graduate: Sport and Sex
For the past few weeks the papers have been filled with debates about prostitution, sugar daddy websites and escort agencies. I love the fact that Wayne Rooney’s escapades have opened the floodgates for a dozen female journalists to proffer their [...]
The Graduate: Entering the real world
For some of us, university, the safe extension of our adolescence, is over. And doesn’t everyone know about it. If I hear one more person muse about “getting a real job”, “growing up” and entering the “real world” (with an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Goldsmiths’ team kettle sends BBC boiling over
An attempt by Goldsmiths’ University Challenge team at making a political statement has been shut down by the BBC. The students had tried to use a large white kettle as their mascot at a studio recording on March 3rd in [...]
A student London fashion weekend
Every year in mid-February, London is taken over by designers, models, bloggers and fashionistas from all over the world to celebrate London Fashion Week at the beautiful Somerset House. The atmosphere is intoxicating: outside Somerset house is a thoroughfare of [...]
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.