60 Seconds with… Peter McOwan
Education Secretary Michael Gove recently announced a “dramatic” overhaul of the ICT curriculum, branding the current syllabus “demotivating and dull” and proposing new computer science lessons from this September. Professor Peter McOwan, a computer scientist at Queen Mary, told us [...]
Research in Brief- 1st December 2011
Open Wide – I Want to Check Your Development The Dental Institute at King’s College London has found that the body can ‘stall’ development of an embryo, while a critical developmental pathway increases its activity. Correcting potentially life threatening birth [...]
Self-healing plastic?
Nature has always inspired scientists to delve into unusual phenomena, and explore opportunities to produce new technologies. A recent study, carried out by researchers at the University of Illinois, was inspired by biological systems, and led to an emerging strategy [...]
QM student council bans “pornographic” lads mags
Queen Mary Students’ Union (QMSU) Student Council has passed a motion to ban the sale and distribution of ‘lads mags’ at QMSU outlets. The magazine FHM had been available for free at the Blomeley Centre, QMSU’s main building, and the [...]
Event costs criticised
Queen Mary Students’ Union has come under fire from their Women’s Officer for “costly and inaccessible” event procedures. Wanda Canton, Queen Mary Students’ Union Women’s Officer, ran in to difficulty while organising a week of events for Women’s Month culminating [...]
Queen Mary students in teach-in
An Anti-cuts Teach-In was held at the Queen Mary campus on the 2nd March. The “community building” event, entitled “Whose University?” was said to have gone “very well”. The Teach-In was an open event comprising 6 speakers, from a range [...]
Queen Mary appoints new Vice-Principal
Professor Richard Charles Trembath has been welcomed by Queen Mary as their new Vice-Principal and Warden of the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The Professor holds a notable career as a clinical scientist and distinguished personality, which [...]
Queen Mary Students’ Union found to be breaking NUS constitutional regulations
The process by which NUS delegates are elected at Queen Mary has been called into question after it emerged that sabbatical officers had contravened the NUS constitution. The college sends four delegates to the NUS national conference – two are [...]
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.