UCL in the media
How likely am I to become an astronaut?
Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) explains how manned missions to space can inspire young people but that the future of space exploration is in robotics and unmanned missions.
Read: BBC NewsPrince Charles and cabinet papers
Professor Robert Hazell (UCL Constitution Unit) discusses whether the Prince of Wales should be receiving confidential cabinet documents.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'The World Tonight' (from 19 mins 34 secs)As Britain plans to regulate madrasas, let's understand their history
In an opinion piece Dr Farid Panjwani (UCL Institute of Education) explains why British Muslims have mixed emotions about the motives behind moves to inspect madrasas.
Read: The ConversationScientists study whether hyperthermia treatment makes chemo more effective
A study, led by Professor John Kelly (UCL Research Department of General Surgery), looked at the effect hyperthermia had on patients with bladder cancer who failed immunotherapy treatment and found that there was a benefit in some but not all patients.
Read: Wall Street JournalThomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty, who spoke at UCL as part of the SSEES Centenary Conference, discusses the world economy and whether the arguments made in his book Capital In the Twenty-First Century still stand.
Watch: BBC Two 'Newsnight' (from 29 mins 46 secs), More: Full interview, Sunday Times (£)A university funding system designed to crush the aspirations of the poor
In an op-ed piece, Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy) looks at how changes to university funding in the government's spending review will be detrimental to the poorest students.
Read: Guardian'Delusional' to compare universities using graduate employment
Speaking at the SRHE conference, Professor Simon Marginson (UCL Institute of Education) says it is "delusional" to attempt to measure the success of higher education institutions using data on graduate employment.
Read: THE (£)Two crucial omissions that could jeopardise Paris climate hopes
Following the Paris climate agreement, Dr Tristan Smith (UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources) explains why shipping and aviation need to rein in their emissions if we are to limit global warming.
Read: The Conversation, More: IndependentChildren who go to high quality pre-school 'twice as likely' to go on to Sixth Form
The latest analysis of data from the Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education project has found that students who attended pre-school were more likely to take AS-level exams than those who had not.
Read: Nursery WorldU.K. research wins hollow victory
Commenting on the government's spending review, Dr Jenny Rohn (UCL Nephrology) says "as the dust settles, more people are thinking this is not such a good deal".
Read: Science (£)