Graduates prefer experience rather than money
Maria Delgado Gonçalves
Four out of five university students expect to work without pay when they first graduate, according to a recent international study. Career matching platform 10 Minutes With recently revealed that…
December 2015
Students will pay more loans, George Osborne announced
The Government came under fire after it emerged tens of thousands of students will have to start paying back their student loan early. Student groups and financial experts criticised the…
Students walk out against ‘trash’ government
Ida Akerstedt
Around 100 Kingston University students walked out of their classes to show dissatisfaction with anti-immigrant policies and to support international students in the UK. The walk out, organised by the…
The fight for zone 5
Local MP James Berry is continuing the long-running campaign to get Kingston and Surbiton stations rezoned to zone 5. Kingston and Surbiton MP Berry lobbied Parliament at the beginning of…
Nightclubs keep breathalysers to identify drunk people
Claire Gilbody-Dickerson
Kingston’s most popular nightclubs will keep breathalysers to identify people who are too drunk after a trial launched in April turned out successful. Bacchus, The Viper Rooms and Kingston University’s…
American grading system will shake up KU degrees
Luisa Barrientos
Kingston University will begin implementing the controversial US-style grade point average (GPA) marking system after taking part in a pilot study last year. KU plans to be among the first…
University arts faculty to rebrand itself for 140th anniversary
Ceysun Dixon
The faculty of art and design and architecture (FADA) is to revert its name back to the “Kingston School of Art”, in a move that celebrates the schools’ 140th year…
Facebook deletes ‘maybe’ button
Nikita Jadav
Facebook has decided to scrap the ‘maybe’ button on event pages, angering commitment-phobes everywhere. Facebook has replaced the ‘maybe’ button with a new ‘interested’ button. The change of wording is…
Why we should all support UK airstrikes in Syria
Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn warned MPs that they would be “killing babies” if they backed the motion put forth by Prime Minister David Cameron to bomb the Islamic State in…
GPA comment
Whilst some students work hard from the start, some students only do the bare minimum and focus their efforts into their final exams – because first year doesn’t really matter…