Internet strikes against antipiracy legislation
The U.S. Congress shelved SOPA and PIPA, the controversial anti-piracy legislation that has triggered an escalating conflict between America’s entertainment industry and federal government, and the websites that facilitate piracy. This is in response to widespread criticism and the highly [...]
Prisoners of Conscience
Fifty years ago, two Portuguese students held their glasses aloft and toasted to freedom. Their act of defiance was met with a punishment no less draconian than is to be expected from an authoritarian regime like António de Oliveira Salazar’s [...]
University to reopen after earthquake
NEW ZEALAND - The University of Canterbury is to reopen on March 14. The university was demolished in the recent earthquake in New Zealand. It does not mean however that all the students previously enrolled there are going to come back to [...]
Protests in front of university
YEMEN - Sana, a university in the capital of Yemen, became a central place of protests against the dictatorship regime. Two active protesters were murdered recently during some night protests. Many more protesters, in majority young people, started camping in front of [...]
Students contribute towards Football tournament
POLAND - As final preparations get underway in Poland and Ukraine for next year’s European Football Championship, organisers are looking to avoid an expected accommodation squeeze by housing guests in student residences during the tournament. The move could prove difficult, however, as [...]
Minister with(out) the doctorate
GERMANY – Students at Bayreuth University are finally seeing their lives go back to normal after having to endure disruptions caused to their routine by a two-week media circus. The college came under the national spotlight last month amid revelations [...]
Foreign students should pay more
SWITZERLAND - Reform to university tuition fees, and whether they should differentiate more sharply between local and foreign students, has become the subject of recent debate in Switzerland. Foreigners studying in Swiss universities currently pay 200 Swiss francs more than Swiss nationals. [...]
Students abroad affected by the war
LIBYA - The unstable situation back home is starting to impact Libyan students studying abroad. A recent CBC investigation found that there are currently 520 Libyan students studying in Canada on scholarships awarded by their government. The ongoing uprising has made [...]
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.