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Universities bail out their students as loans system fails to cope with surge

09.10.09
Up to 175,000 students are still waiting for their grants and loans a week after starting university amid chaos at the Student Loans Company... more

Health chiefs apologise for delay in closing E.coli farm

16.09.09
Dozen parents of children with E.coli received a formal apology from government health chiefs for blunders that delayed closing a petting farm... more

Wealthy Londoners feeling the pinch are refusing to pay bills

13.07.09
The rich have a new pastime: not paying bills. Once reserved for the hard-up, it has now become the domain of the wealthy... more

TS Eliot widow exults in his poetry reading

01.07.09
In a rare public appearance, TS Eliot's widow Valerie attended a reading of her husband's poems last night at London University... more

Rise of the capital's golden skirts

18.06.09
With so few women making it to the top in business, those who do have the pick of plum boardroom jobs — and can make a fortune juggling up to six at a time... more

Supplies of anti-flu drug Tamiflu to be kept under guard

30.04.09
London was on red alert amid warnings that up to 94,000 could die if a swine flu pandemic strikes... more

The nun from Kensington who saw the great banking crash coming

15.04.09
Interview: Catherine Cowley was seen as naïve when she wrote about the risks of macho banking. Had they listened, her critics might have saved themselves... more

'Open university' skills classes for sex workers

27.03.09
The first "open university" for sex workers will be held in London next month... more

1 in 3 GPs would help terminally ill die

24.03.09
A third of doctors would help terminally ill patients die with a lethal dose of drugs, it was revealed... more

We're proud to be on parade, say university finalists

05.03.09
Finalists in the Miss University London beauty pageant today insisted the competition was not degrading to women.... more

FTSE fall reflects wider anxieties

20.02.09
The fall in the value of shares today - the FTSE fell below 4000 - like the recession itself cannot entirely be blamed on Britain alone: part of it was attributable to events in America... more

Young Tories joke about Maddy and Baby P

09.01.09
A Tory activist has been expelled for joking about dressing up as Madeleine McCann at a fancy dress party where another guest went as Baby P... more

Picket-line demo gets under skin of student beauty contestants

10.12.08
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

Protesters call for university beauty contest to be banned

03.12.08
Hundreds of undergraduates in the capital have applied to take part in a beauty contest to be named Miss University London... more

Bloomsbury streets to be people-friendly

21.10.08
A £6.3 million plan to make Bloomsbury more pedestrian and cycling friendly has been approved... more

Road junction to be made safer after death of cyclist

04.09.08
A notorious road junction that was the scene of a cyclist's death is to be made safer... more

Library funding cut threatens rare folios of Shakespeare

22.08.08
One of the capital's landmark libraries is under threat because of funding cuts... more

Record crop of As predicted as students wait for their GCSE results

19.08.08
One in five GCSEs is expected to be awarded a grade A or A* this week as teenagers are predicted to get record results... more

Honeymooning doctor shot dead in Antigua and husband fights for life

28.07.08
A British doctor has been killed and her husband critically injured while on a Caribbean honeymoon, police say... more

Universities 'turn blind eye to plagiarism'

17.06.08
University degrees are being dumbed down amid pressures on lecturers to "mark positively", a leading academic has warned... more

New St Pancras wins major award for architecture

29.05.08
The transformed St Pancras station and refurbished Royal Festival Hall are among 29 winners at the 2008 London awards of the Royal Institute of British Architects... more

How romance blossomed among the silent readers

22.04.08
Lady Antonia Fraser complains that the British Library Reading Room has become overrun by undergraduates who are hogging all the desks. Her fellow historian Tristram Hunt bemoans the fact it is now a "groovy place" to meet for a frappuccino. Many feared that when the old Reading Room closed, the British Library would lose its charm. Far from it. It has become more fashionable than ever as a social venue... more

Threat of teacher shortage

17.04.08
Schools in London face a staffing crisis as thousands of teachers could lose their right to work in state education... more

I'll ban alcohol on Tube, pledges Tory

03.04.08
Drinking alcohol on the Tube should be banned in a bid to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, Boris Johnson has said... more

Families 'should take religious test for faith schools'

20.03.08
A simple religious test for families should be introduced to stop church schools "cream-skimming" able pupils, say two academics... more

Mother locked herself in room with son's body to escape killer

19.03.08
A mother who found her son battered to death at their home realised his attacker was still there and had to barricade herself in his room as the killer tried to break down the door... more

Students ban the military

07.03.08
Students have voted to ban all military personnel including cadets from a leading London university, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

Is New Cross the new Camden?

09.11.07
Exciting new bars, clubs and live venues are bringing the cool to the South.... more

Freshers week no longer a blur

28.09.07
The Goldsmiths Students' Union has called time on their cheesy disco culture by replacing one of its bars with an art gallery.... more

Stirring scenes from Iraq

04.07.07
Iraqi Hassan Abdulrazzack's first play Baghdad Wedding gives a devastating insight into the depraved minds of the terrorists who tried to maim and murder hundreds in London.... more

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