The Vaccines have been anointed as the eagerly awaited saviours of guitar rock - live, though, it was a different story, despite a packed, expectant Forum... more
London hospital is to carry out the first operation to insert a permanent 'bionic' eye which has already restored sight to blind patients, the Standard can reveal... more
Thousands of students and lecturers up and down the country are expected to take to the streets today to demonstrate against the Government's proposals to treble university tuition fees... more
Like Roshanara Choudry, who stabbed Labour MP Stephen Timms, many young Islamic extremists who grow up in Britain now seem remote from our values... more
Friends of a medical student who was crushed to death in a collision with a tipper truck while cycling to lectures pay tribute to an 'incredibly talented' young man... more
I was not expecting this but the King's College heat of the Miss University London beauty pageant on Tuesday night has made me feel glad to be alive... more
The contest was condemned as misogynistic and degrading but that did not stop students from King's College flocking to last night's final heat of the Miss University London... more
Yeasayer treated the King's College crowd to a set of rare invention and class, showing that their music owes as much to the East as it does to the West... more
London universities have been criticised by MPs for failing to cut student drop-out rates as new figures reveal one in four fails to complete their course... more
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