Serena Bhandari
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All the painful day-to-day struggles you face as a tall girl
Netflix dropped their latest original film Tall Girl the other day, a moving tale about the difficulties of being – you guessed it – a tall girl. Except, it's getting rinsed. Sure, there are definitely some things Tall Girl gets right, like dwarfing all the boys at school. But let's be honest – does anyone really get asked "How's the weather up there?" as much as Jodi does in the film? No, I am… → Read More
Edinburgh professor on trial for forcing student to strip on Skype as ‘punishment’
Professor Kevin O’Gorman has also been accused of whipping a student with a belt → Read More
The government wants to charge EU students up to £38K a year post-Brexit
In recently released plans it has been revealed that after Brexit, international students from the EU will lose their right to the same fees as home students. If Education Secretary Damian Hinds' proposal – revealed by BuzzFeed News – is a success, students starting courses in the 2021/2022 academic year will face fees at the same level as non-EU international students – which today range… → Read More
UCL bans 49 students from Eduroam for pirating Rick and Morty
There's a time and a place for everything – and whilst you may think that downloading Rick and Morty illegally using campus wifi is totally fine, it's become apparent that UCL's IT department does not. Over a period lasting a year and a half, 334 UCL students were banned from Eduroam. A shocking 49 of those were punished for streaming Adult Swim's popular cartoon Rick and Morty. For context,… → Read More
UCL inquiry launched into historical ties to eugenics
We literally have a lecture theatre named after Francis Galton himself → Read More
UCL comes last in ranking of participation of disadvantaged students
In a report published this month by think tank Reform, it was revealed that UCL has come last in an "access ranking" of elite universities. The list ranked 29 universities by their annual increase in the proportion of disadvantaged students between the academic years 2012-13 and 2016-17. In this year's rankings, UCL moved down two place to 29 from last year's marginally better position of 27.… → Read More
Who is Adeline Rudolph? The UCL grad in Netflix’s Sabrina reboot
Adeline Rudolph graduated from UCL, and now she's one of the three witches in the cast of Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch → Read More
Special report: Are unis telling parents if their sons or daughters are suicidal?
In May this year Bristol student Ben Murray took his own life, becoming the 10th to do so there in 18 months. He'd been struggling with anxiety, had missed exams, and had been threatened with being kicked out of uni. He had told his friends and the university but his parents had no idea. When his dad, James, found out, it was completely unexpected. “There were so many times when we could have… → Read More
Friend of Joana Burns could go to jail for supplying the MDMA that caused her death
Joana Burns died after taking a quarter of a gram on her final night out as a student → Read More
Jeremy Bentham had 26 rings made when he died – now scientists are searching for them
We all know the classic UCL tale of Jeremy Bentham: how the eccentric philosopher asked that his body be stuffed and preserved as an auto-icon upon death, and how the mummification of his head went slightly awry, leading it to take on the leathery form it has today. But those aren't the only ways our dear Bentham attempted to preserve his legacy. He also had made 26 memorial rings, which he… → Read More
Someone is petitioning UCL to rearrange Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton to a dabbing position
We’re backing this important cause all the way. → Read More
UCL are giving out lampshades shaped like Jeremy Bentham’s head at graduation
2018 has been without a doubt, the Year of Jeremy Bentham. From Jezza's recent holiday in NYC, to his head finally emerging from the darkest depths of UCL storage for the What Does It Mean To Be Human? Curating Heads exhibition, our beloved utilitarian philosopher has been getting around this year. "Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around… → Read More
Queen Mary Law and History fresher fatally stabbed in East London
He becomes 12th teen to be murdered in London this year → Read More
The story behind UCL’s enigmatic strawberry loo: We investigated the mystery
Haven’t you ever wondered? → Read More
UCL protesters place AirBnB advert for South Cloisters occupation
A group of UCL students have placed an AirBnB listing online for a "UCL Squat" in the space outside Provost Michael Arthur's office. Listed as a "lovely central London squat," the advert invites interested parties to join the group in occupation of the space in support of the UCU pension strike. What better way to "resist neoliberalisation of higher education" than with the group's "friendly… → Read More
Nick Clegg to speak at UCL on how to 'stop' Brexit
As part of UCL's Department of Political Science Policy and Practice lecture series, Nick Clegg will be talking on how we can reverse 2016's Brexit vote. → Read More
Disabled people aren't 'Undateable', thanks, Channel 4
An analysis of how 'The Undateables' is patronising bullshit → Read More