Errors surface in Imperial’s salary benchmarks
The College will not return to the negotiating table in spite of errors made by consultant.
Guillaume Felix
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2024 FoNS MAD winners take home engineering award
Team Marigold is developing an AI-based software to help individuals with sound sensitivities.
Peter Haynes sets out priorities for his tenure as Provost
Professor Peter Haynes set out four main pillars for Imperial’s future governance, two weeks after he took office as the College’s Provost. The priorities are to deliver on Imperial’s strategy, to grow the university’s resource in a financially stable and sustainable way, to invest wisely, and
United States: the mammoth in the room
The American stock market continues its vertiginous ascent, with the S&P 500 reaching an all-time high this month (as it often does). This is barely news – the US economy has been defying expectation for the past decade, perplexing the columnists who regularly predict its demise in leading financial
Equivalent of 15,000 university jobs cut over last year, says UCU
An analysis by the University and College Union (UCU) suggested that cuts equivalent to over 15,000 jobs were announced by UK universities in the past year. The UCU, a higher education trade union, calculated that over 12,000 redundancies had been directly enacted, on top of planned savings worth
An interview with Tom Gordon, Deputy President for Activities
Tom Gordon walks into the Felix office with an Imperial College Symphony Orchestra (ICSO) sweater. I wear a Felix hoodie. The game is on. Before his election as Deputy President for Activities (DPA), Tom was very involved with student societies. A member of now-defunct Comedy Soc in his first year,
Activist demonstrations rock graduation ceremony again
Three graduands displayed banners condemning the alleged involvement of Imperial in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza during the graduation ceremony of Commemoration Day, on Wednesday 8th October. In three separate incidents, the activists took out messages concealed in their robes onstage, and were swiftly forced off the graduation stage by
Hot Imperial startup ceases operations
Carbon capture startup Cyanoskin announced on Tuesday 7th October that it was “closing its doors”, citing “a misalignment between the product’s performance and the commercial requirements”. Cyanoskin was co-founded in 2023 by Antoinette Nothomb, then a MSc Management student at the Imperial Business School, and Emma Money from the
Picket lines and marches mark the first two days of industrial action
Members of the Joint Trades Union (JTU) formed picket lines around campus on Tuesday and Wednesday, as part of a first wave of strike action following a dispute with the College over its most recent pay award. In September, Imperial’s three recognised labour unions, which together form the JTU,
Imperial tops Times ranking for graduate prospects and research quality
Imperial ranked first among UK universities both for graduate prospects and research quality in an annual ranking by The Times. It earned the prize of University of the Year for Graduate Employment 2026. The newspaper noted that 95.9% of Imperial graduates moved on to “highly skilled jobs or further
Meet Nico Henry, the Union President
The former physicist shares his past experiences and ambitions for the year
What should we focus on?
Did you know that the entirety of the Felix archive, dating back to 1949, can be found on our website? Browsing through issues from past decades is a funny experience, but one that allows social, economic and political changes to be traced over decades. A long, long time ago, in