Are women unhappy at Imperial? Some, it seems, are. Some men are too. Whether these are vocal fractions of a silent majority, or simply a vocal minority remains to be seen, but it doesn’t really matter. Every student at Imperial deserves freedom to be him/herself and to thrive to his/her full potential, minority or not [...]

Many of you will remember the days when the Union had a cash machine in Beit Quad. Positioned between the two sets of doors to the Union, it dispensed (oddly) cash and the occasional receipt. However during the closure of the venue in the Summer of 2011 the usage of the machine dropped (as no [...]

As I’m sure most of you noticed we had a really successful Rep Week from 13th-17th February 2012. We had an impressive 347 students who gave us recommendations on how to improve the Imperial College student experience. All of which were anonymised, categorised and sent to each Departmental Representative. They will now bring up each [...]

As I hope some of you recall, on 20th September 2011 Imperial College Union sent its White Paper Response to the government. 5 months later, on 23rd February 2012 we got a response to the Early Repayment Consultation from David Willetts and BIS to tell us that “I am today confirming that there is to [...]

This week (13th-18th Feb) is Imperial College Union Rep Week.
Get involved and send us your recommendations to improve the Imperial College Student Experience by tweeting with #loveyourrep or come to see us on Monday, Wednesday or Friday lunchtimes this week in the JCR.

Love you rep.

On Tuesday I attended a Parliamentary Roundtable Dinner which was focused on growing the economy through technology. Seated opposite senior representatives from Boeing, Broadcom, Department of Defence and General Dynamics, to name a few, it was easy to question why on Earth I was invited. However conversation quickly slipped into Higher Education: the loss of [...]