Student arrested
ZIMBABWE - Rangarirai Mazovifa, a second year student at a Zimbabwean university, has been arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate long-ruling president Robert Mugabe. The former agriculture undergraduate had been arrested on similar charges in 2007, but was later released after a [...]
International students wanted
CHINA AND JAPAN – China and Japan aim to double the number of international students at their universities by 2020 to 500,000 and 300,000 respectively. To reach their targets, the governments of both countries have introduced new measures to attract more [...]
More university graduates wanted
BRAZIL – Brazil is encouraging secondary school leavers to start university. It is estimated that graduates will be needed for the newly created positions connected with the sport events. Many qualified employees will also be required to serve the foreign tourists, [...]
An alternative to Facebook?
USA – Four IT students from New York, Ilya Zhitomirskiy (20), Daniel Grippi (21), Maxwell Salzberg (22) and Raphael Sofaer (19), have created a new online service which they hope will become the next big thing in social networking. According [...]
Texting in class a no-no for students
NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA - A survey at the University of New Hampshire has found, perhaps to the surprise of many a lecturer, that students are against texting in class.A study of more than 1000 students at the college found that while [...]
Chinese student launches nude exhibition
CHINA - Chinese student Fei Wo Feifei Wo, who covered her university tuition fees and supported her grandmother by posing for nude photographs, is about to reveal her new ‘shocking’ exhibition in her next Beijing art show. Abandoned by her parents [...]
Indian uni makes preparations for Cricket World Cup
INDIA - Cricket-crazy Panjab University has announced plans to ensure that no fan misses out on the World Cup action. Common room seating capacity has been increased and opening hours extended to allow for around the clock viewing. Meal times have [...]
Russia introduces testing in schools to combat trafficking
RUSSIA - Drug testing for all university and school students may become compulsory in Russia as early as this year in a bid to stop drug trafficking. It is estimated that 90% of heroin in Russia originates from Afghanistan and is [...]
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.