This week, Council agreed to change the name of the Deputy President (Clubs & Societies) and Deputy President (Finance & Services) roles to Deputy Presidents (Activities & Development) and (Activities & Finance) respectively.
The Union’s Higher Education policy will go to a referendum later this year, after Union Council felt unable to make a decision without further consultation.
College has recently announced the closure of the 4-year fast track graduate-entry medicine course.
The College has announced plans for a major redevelopment of the Central Library. The project is scheduled to begin in a few weeks and is set to finish in late 2015, with work taking place mainly this summer and next summer to minimise disruption to students.
The RCSU UROP bursary has been awarded to an undergraduate student from the Department of Chemistry. This is a new initiative where the funding will be from the RCSU for students from lower income backgrounds.
On Wednesday, Imperial students James Winfield and Dominic Jacobson won the Mayor of London’s Low Carbon Entrepreneur 2014 award.
Imperial Innovations, a company based at Imperial College, is planning to issue new shares on the stock market in a bid to raise up to £150 million.
Imperial College have moved up four places to 5th in the latest Guardian University League Table.
A consultation meeting concerning the new Imperial hall of residence was held last Wednesday. The plans for the hall, currently called One Victoria Road and located in North Acton, some five miles away from the South Kensington Campus, were first announced early last year.
The annual Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) Festival of Science will be happening on Friday 13th June 2014 in the SAF lecture theatres.
Yoyo, the mobile payment app that launched last year, has managed to secure seed funding for $5m (nearly £3m), in what is considered to be one of the biggest funding deals in Europe so far this year.
Following a large number of meetings being cancelled, the Union Executive Committee has met for only the second time this academic year. Charged with overseeing the general running of the Union and enacting policies of Union Council, Exec is scheduled to meet once a month.