Woolf’s damaging report asks further questions of the “Libyan School of Economics”
The recently-released Woolf Report overshadowed the LSE’s announcement of a new Director of School, as problems from the last regime threatened to spill over into the next period of the School’s history. The report, commissioned following the sudden resignation of [...]
Top Met officer: rubber bullets could have been used at Milbank
In an exclusive interview with London Student, the Metropolitan Police officer in charge of handling tomorrow’s student demonstration has suggested that, if available, rubber bullets could have been fired by police during the chaotic scenes at Milbank last year. Commander [...]
Grayling red-faced as smoke bomb disrupts talk
A smoke bomb quickly ended a talk involving a controversial academic intent on setting up a private university. Protesters disrupted a panel discussion at Foyles bookshop on Charing Cross Road, which featured Professor A C Grayling, Birkbeck College Professor of [...]
Lecturers go head-to-head in UCU National Executive Committee elections
University and College Union’s election to select its National Executive Committee will close on Friday 4 March 2011. The positions open include the Vice-Presidency, the Honorary Treasurer and several Equality seats. The Honorary Treasurer position had already been obtained by [...]
Teaching union votes for strike action on 22nd
A planned strike by lecturers in response to a decision by university employers to reduce pensions will go ahead, after a vote by the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) passed with 10,627 out of 20,375 voting in favour of taking [...]
Colleges publish hit-list of “substandard” A-level subjects
Universities are telling students which “soft” subjects to avoid as entry becomes more competitive with the introduction of A* score.
Polly put the kettle on, Sukey take it off again
Spawned out of UCL occupation, g Group of campaigners aim to lead “Silicon Valley revolution” with a range of multi-platform mobile phone applications which provide real-time information about police tactics during protests.
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.