London Met does the Harlem Shake for Comic Relief
By Paula Cogan If you’ve been at university rececntly, might have noticed one or two purple posters around the university. Don’t worry, we’re not asking you to join a cult or donate any organs to science (that’s your call) but soemthing special is going on this friday: Staff & students at London Met are doing the Harlem Shake for Comic Relief! Jumping... Read More
Business Students Help Students Find Jobs
By Charlie Allen London Metropolitan University. Image by Geoff Holland London Metropolitan University’s business and PR faculty have set up a ‘Met Temp ‘project which will be run by students to help students find temporary work. Met Temps is a new service available at London Met and it is run by business students and the LMBS (London Metropolitan Business School) faculty.... Read More
London Met Performing Arts students tackle Slawomir Mrozek
There are a lot of potential problems when it comes to acting. There are lines to remember, cues to hit, auditions to pass and directors to deal with. On top of all that, sometimes you have to be funny too. That’s the task facing London Metropolitan Performing Arts students as they tackle Slawomir Mrozek Mrozek’s democratic fable Out At Sea. Written by Polish polemicist... Read More
London Met Street Kids Initiative
London Met students are being recruited to organise, fundraise and visit projects abroad, by the Students Supporting Street Kids charity. Students Supporting Street Kids (SSSK) were among the stalls set out in the Atrium at City Campus last Wednesday. Where Reach, the Student Services initiative, had invited charities to come and talk to students about volunteering. SSSK was started... Read More
Start the new term with Re-Freshers Week!
A whole week of events for new and returning students of London Met is hitting Holloway Road’s Rocket Complex. Read More Read More
Earnings boost
By Georgie Ellmore and Jane Evans Students from London Met are attracting some of the highest graduate salaries. A new study reveals that our students rank 15th in the country’s top graduate wages. Competing with students from the country’s best universities. But does this owe more to geography than the “added value” spoken of in the report? The results of the Parthenon... Read More
StARs, in their eyes
By Sanna Pauliina Aaltonen Ever had an issue regarding uni life that you felt like you couldn’t tackle alone; not getting enough feedback from a seminar tutor, or maybe sitting in a lecture that just felt too rushed and not really worthwhile? Ever heard of the StARs? Stefan Rusu, a second-year StAR student says: “Usually when students have complaints, they are keen to moan about... Read More
What makes you so special?
By Matthew Warcup & Jane Evans Youth unemployment has never been this bad. With unemployment at its highest in seventeen years, what are you doing to make sure you don’t end up as the best qualified shelf stacker, back at home? Recent figures show the number of people out of work in the UK increased by 114,000 this summer. The total hit 2.57 million – that’s over five... Read More
You pay how much rent?!?
By Jane Evans London Met student halls cost almost double the average for student rent and utilities bills. Figures published by Standard Life, say students pay an average of £378 a month on rent and bills. London Met recognises thirty-seven halls on it’s availability guide. The average rent is £751.6 a month. Clandon House is the cheapest with 248 rooms at £336 – £403... Read More
Uni food
By Dima Slavova Waitrose’s chicken sandwich costs over 45% LESS than the ones sold in the London Met canteen. With students complaining of lousy quality and a selection that is at best monotonous, Verve asks ‘are we, the students of London Met, being taken for mugs? The Piazza based on the second floor of the Tower Building on Holloway Road is one of the seven canteens throughout... Read More