Students will pay more loans, George Osborne announced
Maria Delgado Gonçalves
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…
News
The fight for zone 5
Ida Akerstedt
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…
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…
Kingston town centre faces regeneration
Nikita Jadav
Kingston town centre faces a complete revamp with plans for regeneration for Eden Street and a new Hilton hotel underway. The proposals for the new Eden Street include 385 apartments,…
KU Muslims face Paris backlash
Harriet King
Muslim students at Kingston University claim they have suffered increased abuse and discrimination since the Paris massacre. KU students say they have suffered an Islamophobic backlash following terror group Islamic…
Palestinian doctors get their visas rejected
Julia Canas-Martinez
Four Palestinian doctors and a nurse were unable to attend a conference at Kingston University because the Home Office mysteriously rejected their visas. The Doctors Hasnaa Al Sourani, Amal Shaat,…
ISIS: behind the mask
“ISIS Militants behead man on the street as he screams for help” “Video shows ISIS sickening mass slaughter of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers” “ISIS claim if ten fighters rape a…
Bushy park’s missing hippo mystery
Kingston’s equivalent to the Loch Ness monster is missing from bushy park after several sightings in the recent months. Africa’s most dangerous animal, the hippopotamus, was last photographed swimming in…
They tried to make me go to toast rehab, I said no
Toast rehab’ is the latest high tech way to battle boozy clubbers and late night trouble in Kingston. Viper Rooms has recently introduced a chill-out room, complete with a kettle…