Friday 25th July, 2008
£1.2m for Union facelift
The Beit Quad redevelopment plan received an extra boost last week when College gave the Union an extra £700,000 towards the first stage of redevelopment.
Six Imperial Academics make rich list
Six Imperial academics have been included in the first ever `academic rich list' recently compiled by the Times Higher Educational Supplement, listing over a hundred of the most successful entrepreneurs.
The straw to break the camel's back
If I were Salman Rushdie, I would still be very scared. It seems that insults against Islam remain a tiny bit off limits when it comes to public rhetoric.
- Student stabbed in suspected homophobic attack
- A student at Cambridge University was brutally attacked in the city last weekend.
- London Student forced to apologise
- The London Student newspaper has been forced to print a full page apology after printing a libellous report of the LSE-Kings riot last term.
- PhD decline
- Imperial College is concerned by the recently reported decline in numbers of students choosing to stay on to complete PhDs in scientific subjects.
- Taleban kidnap victim, Yvonne Ridley, talks to Alon Or-bach
- Yvonne Ridley came to fame when she was kidnapped by the Taleban in September 2001.
- The Sketch
- Do you suffer from tense, nervous headaches? Itchy, flaky scalp? Incessant bouts of stress?