The summer exam season has started with confusion for students and some tutors as the location of hundreds of exams that were timetabled to take place in the Great Hall has been changed at the last minute. All exams from 28th April are to be relocated following the revelation that
Imperial College has run into problems regarding its acquisition of Prince’s Gate gardens, the "secret garden" behind Weeks Hall. The garden was bought by the College last year for an undisclosed sum of money, rumoured to be in the millions, from the widows of the previous owners.
Friday saw the Queen’s Lawn invaded twice for the launch of two science and engineering initiatives. Science and Technology Week 1997 and The British Association of Young Scientists shared a network of temporary marquees covering the lawn for a number of events and displays. The first invasion was for
Imperial College Security officials are celebrating a massive reduction in campus bicycle thefts, following improved security vigilance and the arrest of a suspected thief before Christmas. A man was arrested on 11 December after a fourth year Civil Engineering student noticed two people, a man and a woman, making "
An official report on last year’s meningitis outbreak at Cardiff University has suggested that the deaths of two 19-year-old students could have been avoided had mass vaccination been implemented, and has suggested a review of national guidelines. Last year, seven students contracted meningitis between October and December. The first
The end may be in sight for the long-running pay dispute between the Universities and Colleges Employers Association and eight trade unions, led by the Association of University Teachers, which threatened to disrupt exam and admissions procedures for universities in the United Kingdom later this year. The dispute started in
The new Imperial College plan summary for 1995/96 to 1998/99 contains few surprises, with emphasis placed on development of interdisciplinary research centres and the continuing of the "Campus Renaissance" scheme to improve the South Kensington site. The plan is a revised version of one produced two
