Our undergraduate post-application ‘taster’ days (in March and April) attracted over 1000 bookings from students keen to find out more about studying at Kingston. The events were geared around giving potential students a real experience of what it would be like to live and study in Kingston – plus an opportunity to talk, face to face, ...
Dr Hsein Kew, our Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, recently played host to a group of 20 first year Civil Engineering students from Hogeschool INHOLLAND (Netherlands) during their 4-day study trip to London. Dr Kew talked to the group about the Faculty - and the excellent courses available in the School of Civil Engineering and Construction. ...
As part of a Sustainable Cities module third year students from GGE studying courses in geography, sustainable development and environmental hazards presented to Kingstonfirst (the town centre management team) and the Old London Road Trade Association their recommendations for enhancing the Market Place, the Grade II listed Market House and Old London Road. The objective ...
An exercise physiology laboratory is probably the last place you would expect to find the crew from an award-winning national breakfast radio show, but not top radio presenters Christian O'Connell and co-host Richie Firth. The duo, whose voices are beamed into homes across the country every weekday morning, have just found themselves back in the ...
Having just won the HEA STEM Student Photography Competition with her stunning photograph of ‘latent fingerprints on a water bottle’ - Carina tells us about herself, the competition and the origins of her photo. “I’m currently in my third year of the Forensic Science and Investigative Analysis course – and I love it.” Choosing my course... “I got ...
Research carried out at London's Kingston University has revealed that athletes could mask illegal doping with testosterone by drinking green and white tea. A team headed by Professor Declan Naughton, from the University's School of Life Sciences, found drinking the beverages had the potential to reduce the amount of the performance-enhancing hormone present in urine ...
Congratulations to Professor Robert Istepanian on his Vice Chair election to the Focus Group for machine-to-machine communication, within the International Telecommunication Union, ITU – the world authority in defining comms standards. Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is considered to be a key enabler of applications and services across a broad range of vertical markets including health-care, logistics, transport ...
A new scholarship funded by a London livery company in memory of renowned aircraft engineer and designer Sir Sydney Camm will allow one student a year in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing (SEC) to make a start on a career in aerospace engineering. Following initial fundraising by the Sir Sydney Camm Commemorative Society of ...
CIS hosted its Annual Industrial Lecture on ‘The Challenges in ICT: Debunking the Hype’. The lecture was given by Professor Keith G Jeffery, Director of International Relations, Science & Technology Facilities Council. The event was opened up with an address from Edith Sim, SEC Dean who introduced Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), and highlighted ...
SEC is proud to support the Universities Week again this year. Last year we received great press coverage so once again we will showcase to the public our automotive and mechanical technology and equipment. We will be displaying 2 robots, our Lotus car and our champion electric racing motorbike, for which we ...