44 h. ago King’s College London VC receives HUGE pay rise despite hundreds of university jobs cut

King’s College London VC receives HUGE pay rise despite hundreds of university jobs cut  The Tab

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3 d. ago Marian Diamond dead: Brookside and Lord of the Rings star dies suddenly aged 89 as Harry Potter actor pays tribute

Diamond died at University College Hospital in London on Monday, January 5

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5 d. ago Focused Ultrasound Foundation Designates University College London and King’s College London as a Focused Ultrasound Center of Excellence | Newswise

Focused Ultrasound Foundation Designates University College London and King’s College London as a Focused Ultrasound Center of Excellence | Newswise  Newswise

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art | Editorial

It can make us healthier, happier and live longer. Engaging in culture should be encouraged like good diet and exerciseThe second Friday in January has been dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, when we are most likely to give up our new year resolutions. Instead of denying ourselves pleasures, suggests a new batch of books, a more successful route may be adding to them – nourishing our minds and souls by making creativity as much a daily habit as eating vegetables and exercising. Rather than the familiar exhortations to stop drinking, diet, take up yoga or running, there is an overwhelming body of evidence to suggest that joining a choir, going to an art gallery or learning to dance should be added to the new year list.Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, brings together numerous research projects confirming what we have always suspected – art is good for us. It helps us enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives. One study fou...

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8 d. ago My favourite family photo: ‘I can still feel my mother’s arm around my shoulder’

I love the way we are both looking in astonishment at my son. It shows the unwavering support she gave me when he was bornThis picture of my mother, me and my eldest son, Theo, was taken the morning after he was born in May 2002, in University College Hospital, London.There are a lot of things I love about it. I love the fact my mother is exquisitely dressed – she’s wearing her pearls! She always looked very elegant at this time in her life and enjoyed clothes (we bought that suit on a day out together). I love the composition too – our three dark heads, faces in profile and the way our three hands are aligned. I love the miracle of my son’s intricate little shell of an ear, the nose (his dad’s) and lips (mine) still visible now in his 23-year-old face. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Bright’ student, 20, hit and killed by van as she sat on bench – as driver appears in court charged over death

A 'BRIGHT' student, 20, was hit and killed by a van while sitting on a bench as the driver is charged. Aalia Mahome was struck after the vehicle ploughed into a group of people outside King's College in London, on March 18 last year. The university student was tragically pronounced dead at the scene, on...

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2 w. ago UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice

Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional worldThe UK now has a “surfeit” of graduates and students must accept that a university degree is no longer a “passport to social mobility”, a leading vice-chancellor has argued.Prof Shitij Kapur, the head of King’s College London, said the days when universities could promise that their graduates were certain to get good jobs are over, in an era where nearly half the population enters higher education. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago University College London (UCL) is Seeking a Project Coordinator – Apply By 4 January 2026

University College London (UCL) is Seeking a Project Coordinator – Apply By 4 January 2026  Global South Opportunities

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2 w. ago Breakthrough MS study identifies two new types in hopes for treatment

Two new sub-types of multiple sclerosis (MS) were discovered by researchers from Queen Square Analytics and University College London

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3 w. ago Aliens will be discovered within 50 years but won't look like ET, says space scientist

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a space scientist at University College London and BBC presenter, predicts alien life will be found by 2075 but likely as 'grey sludge'

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3 w. ago Palestine Action activist on hunger strike taken to hospital as campaigners criticise ‘negligent’ treatment

Dr James Smith, an emergency physician who is a lecturer at University College London, said the group needed specialist medical help because they ‘are dying’

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