Over 100 Kingston students look for a sugar daddy to pay for their degree
Priyanka Mogul
Kingston is one of the top five universities in the UK for students who have signed up to sugar daddy agencies, according to a leading dating website. Research by Seeking…
Tuition fees
KU Vice Chancellor warns Labour over tuition fee plans
Eline Rilda
KU Vice Chancellor Julius Weinberg has strongly opposed Labour’s £6,000 tuition fee cap proposal, saying “sustainable funding” would be needed to retain high quality education. On Monday, some of the…
Students say higher education is of ‘poor value’
Martine Meland
Almost a third of undergraduate students said they did not get value for money during their time at university, according to a new report by consumer group Which?. The report…
KU students join tuition fees demonstration
Logan Collins
Kingston University students took part in the Free Education demonstration in London on Wednesday, November 19, along with thousands of others who protested against high university tuition fees. The demonstration,…
Controversy at KUSU EGM as motion against management plans is passed, but may count for nothing
River Reporter
Students overwhelmingly passed a motion to oppose KU senior management’s controversial academic progression proposals and support lecturer union UCU’s alternative strategy for the University. Joe Stanley-Smith Students overwhelmingly passed a…
BoJo no no: Johnson really is a nasty piece of work
Big, blonde, bumbling Boris. If anyone could take him seriously, nobody would be laughing. Joe Stanley-Smith When Boris Johnson came to Kingston University in 2011 he was treated exactly as…
Top news: Pope Francis, Gazza, and a decline in uni students
The River’s Jack Hammond rounds up this week’s top five news stories at a glance. Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected Pope Francis Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected…
Fire alarms at Penrhyn Road cut expensive class time
Falsely activated fire alarms anger students who lose tuition time. Joe Stanley-Smith Fire alarms went off four times last week at Penrhyn Road, potentially “costing” students hundreds of pounds in…
Freshers numbers drop after tuition fees hike
Tuition fees put off hundreds of Kingston freshers, UCAS figures suggest. Ollie Gillman and Ryan Rocastle Freshers were put off studying at Kingston by the rise in tuition fees, figures…
Indian Students Turned Off By UK Universities – And It’s About More Than Just Rising Fees
I’M FORTUNATE enough not to be in the UK on a student visa. My dad’s job relocated us to London when I was in high school and I now qualify…