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School of Harrods by daveograve@ Perhaps in a bid to restore a serious retail reputation to Knightsbridge’s most famous “cornershop” and eclipse the dominant personality of its Chairman and former proprietor, Harrods starts 10 of its employees on a prototype 2 year undergraduate degree course …

Back in December, we were slightly surprised to find out that some of London’s newest student accommodation costs up to £300 per week. Following our comments, we were contacted by the American developer, Blackstone. They invited us to tour their new student skyscraper, Nido Spitalfields, …

The Rector of Imperial College, Sir Roy Anderson, will step down after fewer than 18 months in the top role. The good Rector wants to follow in the footsteps of Belle de Jour and concentrate on his career as a reserch scientist (although don’t stretch …

An Olympic university will be built on the site of the 2012 Games as part of a world-class sports facility, ministers have announced. The university will establish a key higher education sporting campus, with Kings College, Imperial College and University College London being among the …

Up to 500 jobs are at risk and courses could be cut at London Metropolitan University. The university has been underestimating the number of students who drop out to such an extent that it’s had £38m in funding it wasn’t entitled to since 2005. Now …

London universities are some of the best in the country for research. Results of the first Research Assessment Exercise for 7 years were published today and LSE, Imperial and UCL are in the top 5, beaten only by Oxbridge. It’s actually research that brings in …

Yesterday comes the news that a shiny new medical centre is to be built on wasteland somewhere behind the British Library….and today sees the start of the more-or-less obligatory protests therein. The idea is to build the £500 million ‘UK Centre for Medical Research and …

There have been many suggestions for women’s safety at night: travel in groups, don’t get minicabs, always walk facing traffic, carry a rape alarm, make sure you’re home before it gets dark and stay indoors until daylight. All really helpful – for putting sexual equality …

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses …

We’ve seen you racing down Rainbow Road in the queue at Sainsbury’s. We’ve also noticed you desperately arranging tetrominoes on the tube and catching Pokémon at the bus stop, so we know you’re just as addicted to playing Nintendo DS as we are. For over …