Kingston’s knock-off cereal killer waves a not-so-sweet goodbye
Karishma Patel
The owner of a controversial cereal bar that charged £6 for a breakfast has shut up shop and blamed KU for charging too much for advertising. Ramon Mullan, the owner…
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KU applications drop for 2016
Kayli Olson
Kingston University has seen three per cent fewer student applications for the 2016 start compared to last year.
Kingston University nursery in top-up row
Alexandra Pedersen
KU parents have condemned a move by the university nursery to add an extra top-up to the nursery bills. During the past year the nursery has been charging the difference…
Kingston Business and Law lecturers furious at 10-day marking regulation
Ida Akerstedt
Lecturers have condemned a move to introduce a 10-day marking deadline of student work as “rushed” and “risky”. The University and College Union (UCU), which represents most of Kingston’s academic…
A “Shameful Start to Shakespeare 400”
Shakespeare scholar and enthusiast set to do a research fellowship at Kingston University is being deported within days. Dr Paul Hamilton, who has been running conferences for the Kingston Shakespeare…
Censoring Universities?
Hamsa Mohamed
KU Vice-Chancellor Julius Weinberg, CAGE director and ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, and Shenaz Bunglawala from Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) discuss free speech and the censoring of universities. Kingston’s…
KU launches MA in ‘Gender without Borders’
Kingston University is launching a postgraduate course entitled ‘Gender without Borders’ for the next academic year. The course, which will start in September 2016, will be taught across three core…
Video: A few words on Alan Rickman
For our generation, Alan Rickman will always be the perfect Severus Snape. But he was more than just a Harry Potter character. Before Harry Potter, he struck the hearts of…
Health and social care students fight back
Josephine Platt
Health and social care students, including nurses, midwifes and paramedics have protested twice since December in Central London against their bursaries becoming loans from 2017. Through social media and an…
Kingston most polluted in South London
Christine Younan
Kingston Town Centre Street is considered to be one of the most polluted areas in south London which could have an effect on students at Kingston University. Cromwell Road is…