Wednesday 7th January, 2009
Wye gets £1bn
Imperial's Wye campus to be transformed into 12,500-job world-class research centre
LSE-Kings rivalry gets nasty
Drunken students from LSE stormed King's College London's Strand campus last Friday afternoon, causing damages worth an estimated £30,000.
Exhibition Road to go naked
South Kensington tube station and Cromwell Road are amongst the most difficult places to access. As a result, Exhibition Road is to be completely revamped. However, instead of just modernising it, Exhibition Road is going to be the first "naked road" in
Imperial students get more firsts
Figures show that 25 per cent of Students at Imperial College are awarded a first-class degree, followed by Oxford and Cambridge, at 23 per cent and 22 per cent respectively.
- Bus services to improve
- Bus services around Kensington are set to be improved ahead of the introduction of the congestion charge to the area. Transport for London (TfL) are currently consulting on a variety of enhancements to be brought in at the beginning of 2007...
- Imperial milks Winston ad
- Imperial College Professor and Labour peer, Lord Robert Winston, is set to donate money earned from his recent St. Ivel "clever milk" advertising campaign to Imperial. The contribution is destined for teaching on the public understanding of science and re
- ECB hikes interest rates
- The European Central Bank decided to raise interest rates last Thursday for the first time in five years. Amid concerns that European economic recovery could be stiffled, and, despite a plea from Europe's finance ministers, the eighteen members of the gov
- Roche clears way to protect bird flu drug patents in pandemic
- Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, has recently settled law suits over its anti-birdflu drug Tamiflu, paving the way for licenced production by rival companies in the event of a global pandemic.
- G7 pressure on Yuan
- Last week, G7 finance ministers from the world's largest seven economies urged China to re-value its currency, the Yuan, saying that "exchange rates should reflect economic fundamentals".