This Tuesday Union Council was cancelled due to failing to achieve quoracy again. An email was sent around on Monday announcing the cancellation after an administrative member of staff received a large number of apologies of absence via email.
Oxford University’s Students Union (OUSU), not to be confused with the Oxford Union, a debating society, narrowly voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS) in a referendum that concluded on Wednesday.
Two Imperial teams have entered the Summer of Student Innovation competition. This is a competition to fund ideas that use technology that can improve research and education.
Physicists at Imperial College London are ready to turn light into matter within a year, according to new research published in the journal Nature Photonics.
This week College researchers began a new study investigating the possible effects mobile phones and other wireless devices may have on the mental development of children.
This week five Imperial chemists were rewarded for their contributions to chemical sciences with prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
According to an American study from academics at the Universities of Washington and Maine, “students in classes with traditional lecturing [were] 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning.”
On Wednesday, Imperial became one of the 72 organisations to sign a Concordat on Animal Research within the United Kingdom. The Concordat, which promises that the organisations will be transparent about their experiments on animals, follows an opinion poll conducted in 2012.
This week the Complete University Guide (CUG) released their latest ranking table for Universities within the United Kingdom.
Yesterday saw College coming in 43rd place in the Times Higher Education (THE) Student Experience Survey 2014. Ranked on 21 different attributes, from the strength of the students’ union to the fairness of the workload, the data was gathered by YouthSight over the course of last academic year.
Tensions develop between famous Chelsea hospitals
Yesterday, 8 College staff members received prizes at the Union’s annual Student Academic Choice Awards (SACAs).