The eye in the S.K.
Imperial and eleven other universities’ contract with security firm Horus under scrutiny.
Guillaume Felix
Editor-in-Chief & News Editor (2025-2026)
Woodside loses status as College fossil fuel partner
The Australian firm, historically a minor funder of Imperial-based research, still pledges to expand its oil and gas business.
How much are students using dAIsy, six months on?
dAIsy, Imperial’s AI platform, has been used by 8,500 people between its release in September and early April, according to a Freedom of Information Request by Felix, representing roughly a quarter of the 32,000 staff and students granted access to the LLM aggregator. However, only 3,250
OfS introduces new freedom of speech complaints scheme for academics
The Office for Students (OfS), a higher education watchdog, is set to introduce a new complaints scheme for university staff and speakers to report freedom of speech violations. The Department for Education said this “first-of-its kind” scheme, which will be cost-free and “streamlined”, would become effective from the 2026-27 academic
Climate chit-chat at the NHM
The Natural History Museum is hosting a series of sustainability-focussed events on the evening of Friday 24th April. The events, which will run from 18:30, will include a panel, a guided visit, and a storytelling session to which Imperial Professor Sebastian Eastham will contribute. Alongside three other speakers, Dr
A fresh batch of sabbs
Daniel Zhuo to lead ICU, with Jacob Eyre, Sky Wang, and Sarah Azam acting as Deputy Presidents.
College considers scrapping Wardens
Student representatives worried by consequences on residents’ safety and welfare.
ICU apologises for issues with digital systems
Imperial College Union (ICU) responded to an open letter criticising flaws in its digital transformation, shared in the wake of the Union’s rocky move of the Student Group Shop from eActivities to SUMS. The letter, attributed to “a collective” of students, was addressed to the ICU Board of Trustees
March elections turnout fails to beat last year's
As voting closed at 2pm on Thursday 12th March, over 146,000 ballots had been electronically cast in the 2026 student elections. The turnout for student-run Clubs, Societies and Project (CSP) Elections was 28.8%, while the turnout for non-CSP “General” Elections was 24.4%. Both turnout rates were slightly
Imperial Confessions faces backlash after featuring posts targeting Chinese students
Two posts on Chinese students’ language skills and another mocking them prompted a wave of criticism and threats.
Grok removed from College AI platform
Grok, the generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, is no longer available on dAIsy, Imperial’s artificial intelligence platform. Staff and students can still converse with various models of ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama. Grok, which is part of billionaire Elon Musk’s tech empire, has been at the
Discover the seven candidates for Union President
The seven candidates to the role of Union President – the sabbatical officer which leads and represents Imperial College Union – were revealed on Thursday 5th March. On that day, four of them took part in a debate moderated by Felix around the themes of affordability, student voice, and representation. Below, we