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Detroit bomber was president of UCL’s Islamic Society
Suspected Detroit terror attacker was head of UCL’s Islamic Society, it has been revealed.
According to the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, who graduated from UCL with a degree in Engineering and Business Finance, served as the President of the University’s Islamic Society between 2006 and 2007.
In a recent press release,...
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UCL student accused of plane bomb plot in the USA
A student at University College, London is in custody after reportedly attempting to blow up a plane in the USA. Thankfully Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was studying engineering and not pyrotechnics: his explosives failed to go off and he ended up burning just his own legs. More here.
Following Mutallab’s alleged actions, there will probably...
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Student Finance woes for Freshers
It’s September, and as I write this hundreds of thousands of people (including myself) are preparing to head off to University. It’s meant to be a fantastic time: living for yourself, getting away from home, meeting new people. But for a worryingly large amount of people it won’t be, since they’re starting term without any...
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MIT students ‘Rickroll’ their campus
What do you get when you mix a collection of bored students with large brains, Rick Astley and an scaffold cladding? This:
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Extreme whale watching
Like a lot of graduates, my friend Sterling Chan hasn’t managed to find a job in the recession. So he’s spent a lot of his post-university summer fishing, on the west coast of Canada. In the video below a humpback whale gets a little too close for comfort.
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Graduate sues college after being unable to find a job
Trina Thompson may not have graduated from Harvard with a degree in Rocket Science but you would still expect an IT graduate from Monroe College in New York to be pretty smart, with a smidge of commonsense. This is apparently expecting too much however, as the 27-year-old graduate is suing her college after being...
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Fees to rise to £7,000 after next election
My old school offers places to ex-pupils on their school trips. It’s a simple arrangement: you come along as a responsible adult, and they drag you around the finest Roman ruins in Italy for a week or so, half-board, for a decent price. Realistically you’re there as a spare body, someone who can, if...
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Teacher charged with attempted murder
A science teacher has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly attacking a 14 year-old boy with a 2kg weight. Mr Peter Harvey, who taught at All Saints Roman Catholic School in Mansfield, had recently returned from sick leave after having a stress related stroke.
It is alleged that Mr Harvey attacked Jack Waterhouse after...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Secondary Schools* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
A teacher who filmed her pupils in a secret documentary about the standards in state schools was yesterday suspended for a year by a General Teaching Panel.
The documentary itself (viewable here) was an expose of mismanagement and bad behaviour in failing (and 'successful') schools. For six months Alex Dolan filmed herself teaching and talking...
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