By way of introducing readers to the new sabbatical leadership at the Students’ Union, The Cheese Grater has taken the great risk...

In a blog post titled ‘Improving experience and accessibility for our campus’ central spaces’, the University has announced its p...

Despite his repeated claims that the ‘right to protest, debate, and challenging ideas is fundamental to our role as a university’...

At the Faculty of Arts and Humanities graduation on Tuesday (3 September), one student was forced to receive their degree certifi...

In the past week, three newly elected sabbatical officers across two University of London institutions have been barred from taki...

Malvika Murkumbi, Investigations EditorRenting in London is a battlefield. Every flat is at least two of the following: r...

The President and Provost Michael Spence sent another blast email to every UCL student earlier today (15 July) to let us know that...

Nick MiaoActivities and Engagement Officer Aria Shi, right, pictured tearing up during Questions to Officers at the final...

Palestinian activists at UCL Stands for Justice (SFJ), a student-led coalition, have escalated their protests, disrupting awards ...

Robert Delaney, Malvika Murkumbi, Mayra Nassef, and Andrea BidnicA year in student accommodation is a rite of passage for mos...

Andrea Bidnic, Malvika Murkumbi and Mayra Nassef In 2017, The Cheese Grater published an article titled “Teaching on the...

Robert Delaney*On the request of the interviewee, their name has been changed to Ramallah19On the 20th May The Cheese...

Rebekah WrightContent warning: discussions of sexual assault and rapeAll the people in this article have been given pseud...

Sirjan Narang and Robert Delaney UCL Action for Palestine (AFP), a Palestinian advocacy group not affiliated with the St...

Robert Delaney Higher education is in a bad place. Those reading who were at UCL last year know exactly what I mean. Mar...

Rebekah WrightN.B. The Cheese Grater has reached out to Michael Spence’s Office for comment, but is yet to hear back from the...

Finley Littlefair, Yash Zodgekar, Emma Begley-Collier, and Sirjan NarangFrom the picture-perfect Portico to the houses lining...

Robert DelaneyThe first rule of water polo is to keep your head above the water. Yet, the UCL Water Polo Club is struggling t...

Nick MiaoSabbatical Officers at Students’ Union UCL (SU) are elected in cross-campus elections once a year to represent the s...

Mads Brown and Zhenya RobinsonContent warning: discussions of sexual assault and mental illness [‘Report + Support’]...

Mads BrownStudents have finally had enough of the transphobic rhetoric which runs rife at UCL. On Friday 24th November, the c...

Mayra Nassef, Ishita Jainer and Malvika MurkumbiOn 13 November, the Metropolitan Police, in conjunction with University Colle...

Nick MiaoThe Students’ Union prides itself on being a student-led, student-owned organisation. But how much do you, the stude...

Rusheen Bansal“They're hiring new people when employees are losing hours.” On December 4, spirited chants reverberat...

Andrea Bidnic, Adnan Bader and Rebekah WrightEvery year, thousands of bright-eyed new students take the obligatory pre-univer...

Mads Brown, Rebekah Wright and Shaza HafezOn Friday the 17th November, UCL’s main quad was crammed with over two hundred stud...

Paige Johnson, Yash Zodgekar, Ary Ris-Luamhain and Rebekah WrightThis October, Just Stop Oil (JSO) marked another destination...

Rebekah Wright and Nick MiaoTo protect anonymity, some interviewees in this article have been given pseudonyms from the music...

Lily Park and Daniel HardingUCL’s refusal to continue working with Stonewall, despite being over a year ago now, still poses ...

Andrea Bidnic, Mads Brown & Lily ParkIn a statement made in November, UCL claimed outsourced security staff were “employe...

Anna Maria Papaoikonomou & Neil MajithiaIf you’ve ever had to change your modules, inquire about extenuating circumstance...

Zhenya Robinson & Finley LittlefairOn the 24th, 25th and 30th of November, universities saw the biggest strike turnout ...

Thais Jones & Aniela BichotThe first time a student hears the term “Effective Altruism”, they tend to assume the best. An...

Vivianne Zhang WeiLack of awareness about the Students' Union elections is a persistent problem at UCL, but one candidate in ...

Neil Majithia and Elettra PlatiFour years ago, the UCL Students’ Union acted on its ban of initiations and disaffiliated Men’...

​​Rebekah Wright, Thais Jones, Samir Ismail and Nandini AgarwalTo protect anonymity, some names have been replaced with ...

Zhenya Robinson and Samir Ismail   UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture (BSA) has consistently ranked amongst...

Samir Ismail, Investigations EditorThe Student Centre is a study spot frequented by most UCL students. It is common knowledge tha...

*Content warning: this article details a real case of sexual violenceFor the purposes of the victim’s privacy, this article us...

*Trigger Warning: this article contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment “Before a system like Report and Support exi...

As UCL prepares to open its new campus, questions arise over its true purpose and value to Bloomsbury’s current students. In 2...

“[He] leaned over the desk and sniffed [me] in three places, typically where you put perfume.” Content Warning: The following ...

Note: The Academic Board Agenda and materials discussed in the December 10th meeting were made available by UCL via a FOI request ...

“It was obvious that this was someone that has never had to be around black people their entire life”In early November, employ...

On December 1st, thirty-odd students convened in a rented basement room in the Building Centre on Store Street for an open forum w...

Do you think your working conditions are adequate? “No! I’m sending this email at 23:59 In February 2018, Jason Murugesu and Pete...

British universities are in the midst of a transformation. Higher education institutions are competing, like enterprises in consum...

In February 2020, Sophia Robinson from The Cheese Grater Magazine interviewed Dr Michael Spence, UCL’s new Provost. Among other th...

In December 2012, the UCL Students’ Union (SU) voted to take steps to cease UCL’s complicity with the occupation of the West Bank,...

Students on study abroad programmes have always had to deal with a unique set of challenges, such as visa complications, communica...

By Juliette Grieve & Riddhi KanetkarDespite a growing awareness towards tackling the climate crisis, many UK universitie...

By Rob Davidson & Stephanie Frank“I wasn't expecting just full ableism in front of my face” The member of staff res...

For first year students in accommodation, self-isolation has been a fundamental part of the freshers’ experience. While some have ...

Although Sadiq Khan declared COVID-19 to be a ‘major incident’ in London, many workers are still being compelled to provide cleani...

By Riddhi Kanetkar In December 2020, amidst growing cases of COVID-19, students across UK universities started organising ...

In January 2018, it was discovered that the (now) ex-Honorary UCL Professor, James Thompson, was holding the controversial London ...

Sophia RobinsonAdditional Reporting by: Min Jing and Stephanie Frank.In 2019, UCL launched the new Institute of ...

“I was rejected from a module because it was “full”, despite having already attended a seminar on the first day.” 2020 marks the ...

Outsourced cleaners working at the University of London had been long embroiled in protests to secure better labour rights. Outsou...

It is no secret that state-school students have faced, and continue to face, significant barriers when accessing higher education ...

Recently, UCL students received an email that condemned a case of ‘exceptionally poor behaviour’ in Schafer House, which resulted ...

Daniel is a deaf first year student who  started studying at UCL in September, however by the end of first term he was already clo...

On January 20th, UCL Disabled Students’ Network published a report detailing the issues surrounding disabilities at UCL, containin...

Dear Provost,Six weeks ago the UCL Disabled Students’ Network released a report based on the testimonies of 33 d...

The Not Cool Club at UCL has gained a lot of traction. All around campus the walls are covered in black and yellow posters promoti...

Our internship provider friends at Come On Out Japan (COOJ) have been at it again. COOJ have been promoting their Global English C...

The Cheese Grater in conversation with Josh Hollands The Cheese Grater Magazine has spoken with Josh Hollands, a UCL Teaching fel...

At the end of October, a majority of UCU (University and College Union) members voted in favour of strike actions, which have begu...

Summer 2019 marked the second year in which UCL conducted Late Summer Assessments (LSAs) - the stated aim of them being “...to imp...

As of 2016-17, only twenty five black women were documented to be working as professors in the UK. In light of a report published ...

Despite being one of the wealthiest universities in the country, UCL implements some of the worst terms and conditions for its out...

In 2014 the minister for Universities and Science, David Willets, announced changes to the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) whic...

It is a commonly acknowledged fact amongst UCL’s student population that library facilities leave a lot to be desired. But, whilst...

At a town hall meeting on 1 March, students and staff came together to debate and testify to UCL’s complex relationship with eugen...

Content warning: mentions of suicide, depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating disorders, but no detailed or graphic descriptions...

Campaigners from the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) are stepping up efforts to end outsourcing at the University of L...

Adverts on social media, a ball pit in South Cloisters, and a promise of £500 to the society with the highest percentage of voting...

Voting opened today in elections for Union sabbatical and part-time officers. This year will be the first in which campaigners are...

UCL is finally facing up to its past. An inquiry has been convened to investigate UCL’s history of eugenics and make recommendatio...

'Academic Freedom' or something more? Six UCL academics were among the signatories of an October 2018 letter published in The Gua...

Last November, UCL switched security contractors from CIS to Axis. The roster of security officers at UCL has changed little, but ...

At a heated Union members’ meeting on Monday 21 January, students voted by a margin of 212 to 78 to reject the adoption of the Int...

In a year when UCL accommodations are less accessible to the most financially insecure students due to the scrapping of the Accom...

A report has been passed to The Cheese Grater alleging serious safeguarding failures on an internship attended by over 10 UCL st...

Glittoris, the Student Union’s flagship LGBT+ club night, has come under fire this term after a series of homophobic and transpho...

The Cheese Grater can exclusively reveal that UCL Socialist Worker Student Society (SWSS), affiliated to the Socialist Workers Par...

This academic year, it has often been impossible for students to access WiFi in UCL libraries. Though eduroam functioned fine befo...

Room bookings in 'still bad' shocker. Quelle surprise, UCL facilities have proven insufficient, and students are bearing the brunt...

It has been revealed to The Cheese Grater that a number of students at UCL have had their names listed incorrectly on official rec...

Activists are back at Senate House after UoL reverses outsourcing decision. The University of London has reneged on its promise t...

On 11 October, at the most recent general assembly of SU UCL (not, under any circumstances, to be called ‘suckle’ -ed.), Democracy...

From September 2018, UCL will outsource employment of temporary workers to an external agency, Unitemps in a move which UCU repres...

Recent changes to the attendance monitoring policy for Tier 4 students in several UCL faculties are generating opposition from sta...

This year, instead of being dotted around London in weird conference rooms and dingy church basements, UCL's summer exams were all...

“If we had Muslims or people of colour holding the same conference ... we would have seen counter-terrorism police on our doorstep...

In a bitter twist to the short reign of Charles Hymas (he was hired last April), UCL's now former Head of Media Relations leaves t...

The controversial plan to move AGMs online appears to have been much ado about nothing, with the majority of UCL’s 268 societies o...

It’s hardly the weather for the picket line.All around campus, small pockets of UCL academics are picketing as part of the nat...

Earlier this year, an international student and former vice-warden of UCL accommodation shared her story with The Cheese Grater. H...

In the first successful SU UCL General Assembly for four years, the Union was saddened to discover that their electronic voting ma...

A battle is raging at UCL, one that will define the very nature of the university for decades to come.It all came to a head th...

Back in 2016, UCL won international news coverage when an event with Hen Mazzig, hosted by UCL Friends of Israel, was disrupted by...

Tonight at an Emergency Council Meeting, the debate over whether President and Treasurer elections for societies should go online ...

In a historic night for the Union, Tuesday's General Assembly was the first since 2014 to which enough people showed up for the me...

This morning, London Student published an exposé into the London Conference of Intelligence that has been hosted by UCL for the la...

A series of articles in the Daily Mail accuse various universities, including UCL, of using wealth screening companies to target a...

UCL East students will face central London prices for accommodation in decidedly-not-central London.The primary justification ...

For the fourth year running, last Tuesday’s promised Union General Assembly never took place, because too few students turned up. ...

“They make you run around in circles until you give up.”Imagine having a drink with a friend in Phineas. All around are po...

Although The Times wrote last week that “hundreds of students have protested against University College London’s decision to host ...

Some lecture slides are impossible to decipher, some contain poor puns, and then there are those which are simply tone deaf.Th...

This summer, the dull purple of UCLU was replaced with the ghastly orange of Students Union UCL, also “not known as” SUUCL.The...

It's a story we've all heard before: boy-meets-girl; Faustus-meets-Devil; university-meets-murderous scientist.Earlier this mo...

This evening, the results for UCL's NUS referendum were announced, though you'd be hard-pressed to find a student who actually kne...

Since its inception in 2012, UCL’s campus in Qatar has been a running sore for UCL management.This will come to an end in 2020...

For some weird reason, we all like to one up each other when talking about how much debt we are in to the library. But, as with al...

As students enjoyed a break over the summer, work continued apace on UCL's new campus in Stratford, East London — six miles from B...

The Cheese Grater is thrilled to reveal that we don’t need to write an article about Bloomsbury Theatre’s renovation as it is surp...

"UCL was the first university in the UK to admit women" - surely this has been forced down every fresher’s throat by now? What the...

With significantly fewer students on rent strike this year, how did the student group Cut the Rent achieve such an impressive vict...

The Cheese Grater can exclusively reveal that purchases made under £5 at Union bars and cafes will no longer be subject to card su...

Students' Union UCL (previously known as UCLU) will hold a referendum this October on whether it wants to remain a part of the NUS...

UCL know that there is one person who guarantees electoral success: the President of the Islamic Society (ISoc). In this year’s sp...

For those who still have questions about whether water is wet and whether or not the Pope is Catholic, it may come as a shock to l...

Conflict erupted at the March Union Council meeting, as plans were revealed to cut the hours of UCLU’s contracted cleaners by 30% ...

“They push you around the system until you give up. There is no system to help”.These are the words of a UCL medical student w...

An anonymous letter criticising Sodexo’s management staff, seen by The Cheese Grater, purportedly sent by an employee, has raised ...

With the Fossil Free UCL divestment campaign seemingly gaining momentum, Provost Michael Arthur and co. are deliberately dragging ...

In the face of a national campaign encouraging students to boycott the National Student Survey (NSS), which measures the student s...

UCL provost Michael Arthur has revealed at the latest Academic Board meeting that student numbers will rise by “2% or so” again th...

A covert group of senior academics are plotting a staff revolt over worries that UCL East is endangering the university’s futu...

A UCLU report, released this past week, has laid bare the unfair and exploitative conditions postgraduate teaching assistants (PGT...

At last, there is more news of the much-missed Bloomsbury Theatre, as students were finally briefed on the Bloomsbury renovation c...

UCL is spending over £1 million pounds on short term solutions in an attempt to solve the College’s impending facilities crisis. S...

The slowly wilting corpse of The Independent had a splash this week courtesy of everyone's favourite rent renegades UCL Cut The Re...

When Provost Professor Michael Arthur crossed the Watford gap from his tenure at Leeds, The Cheese Grater reported that his hotel ...

Vice Provost Rex Knight clashes with students as UCL Cut The Rent protests escalate. The Cheese Grater has already said it once ...

Who exactly is the man that students love to hate?Among left-wing and activist circles at UCL, no name inspires quite as much ...

If you’ve seen the six foot tall billboards around UCL encouraging final year students to take part in the National Student Su...

“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, prevent musical theatre from harmonising by taking a sledgehammer to their dreams.” -...

Will UCL find the courage to examine its murky past?A member of the UCL academic board has revealed that they suspect that the...

North Korea is “very egalitarian” and a “democracy from the bottom”, and Stalin’s rule in the USSR was marked by “popular apprecia...

Bloomsbury streets were stained with blood as protestors clashed with police during demonstrations. What began with the occupation...

A young woman was dragged by police from the ULU Cafe this lunchtime as shocked students looked on and tried to remonstrate wi...

What were the biggest issues you faced when you first became Provost of UCL ten years ago?Number one was that the budget was...

The University of London’s Council, made up of the Vice Chancellors of 18 London universities, this morning voted in favour of shu...

Senior managers and academics within the University of London are proposing the closure of the University of London Union (ULU). ...

Last month's CG (CG37) revealed that up to ten new cafés will open on campus, and that, going on previous choices, these are likel...

[Note: this post contains descriptions of violence against women.]UCLU’s newly created full-time Women’s Officer position has...

The incoming UCL Provost has expensive tastes. In the last six years, Professor Michael Arthur, who will replace Professor Malcolm...

In an email sent this morning to all members Pi's president outlined proposals to scrap Pi Newspaper, merging some of its content ...

[Trigger warning: the following post contains description of sexual violence.]‘UCL confessions’ – a Facebook page featuring an...

UCL's proposal to build a £1bn "university quarter" in Stratford was passed by a Newham council meeting tonight, much to the anger...

Leaving the samba bands and banners of the main TUC "march for a future that works" at Trafalgar Square at about 2 o clock, we joi...

About five or six activists turned up at the engineering careers fair in the Jeremy Bentham room this evening attempting to block ...

For background on this story, see CG34 (March 2012) and the September 2012 Welcome Issue.Warren Lubin, chair of the Carpenter...

UCL Union rejects 'No Confidence in Malcolm Grant', becomes pro-choice and will decide international policy through member’s meeti...

James Skuse and Amy Evans are at it again.Student Activities Officer Amy Evans has attempted to censor Cheese Grater reporting...