Covid-19 patients are getting younger
Rodayna Raydan
UK hospitals warned this week that their units are filling up with younger patients, compared with the first wave of Coronavirus. Data from Public Health England shows that 40 per…
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Erasmus students ‘disappointed’ with the scrapping of programme in the UK
Alex Pivin
Erasmus students from Kingston University have expressed their discontent in the ending of the Erasmus programme in the UK following Brexit. A trade deal was finally reached on Christmas Eve…
How to deal with lockdown: Try poetry
Laurynas Puikys
KU graduate in Creative Writing, Stefan Mohamed, is offering a creative outlet for people by running his online poetry courses this month. In association with the adult education centre The…
KU international students undecided on return to UK
Aqsa Khan
Kingston University’s international students are considering their options for returning to the UK for the rest of the academic year, following the latest lockdown. Some international students are concerned that…
Harry Potter star and former KU student’s son in hospital with Covid-19
Ashley Bautista Domingo
Jessie Cave has shared the news that her three-month-old son Abraham has been hospitalised after contracting coronavirus. The British actress studied illustration and animation at Kingston University but she’s well-known…
England plunged into third lockdown ahead of ‘hardest weeks’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a third national lockdown for England beginning Wednesday, January 6, with schools and colleges closed to all but a few. University students are ordered…
Thursday night applause returns renamed Clap for Heroes
Lewis Halliday
The weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers that ran for 10 weeks during the nation’s first lockdown, returns tonight and will be re-named Clap for Heroes.…
KU graduate wins prestigious design competition
KU graduate in Product and Furniture Design, George Peirce, has won the prestigious 2020 Gordon Russell Design Competition for his innovative chair design. Peirce’s Strung chair impressed the judges with…
KU first-year scoops award for fashion design
Kingston University Fashion BA student, Nikoletta Jonkisz, has won the Roy Pedley Award that recognises work by fashion and textiles students from Dudley College in the West Midlands. First-year KU…
People wrong to doubt vaccine, says Kingston professor
Daniel Nuttman
The first set of Coronavirus vaccinations took place in UK this week, after Britain became the first country in the world to approve the new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. You would imagine…