UCL in the media
'Sugar gel' helps premature babies
Professor Neil Marlow (UCL Institute for Women's Health) comments on the use of dextrose gel to protect premature babies against brain damage.
Read: BBC NewsLog off and run wild instead, children told
Research by UCL's Institute of Child Health has found that only half of seven-year-olds achieved the recommended minimum of at least an hour a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity.
Read: The Times (£) More: ExpressReasons to be chirpful
Budge over Bluetooth. The latest way to send pictures, messages and data is by birdsong using Chirp, a UCL spin-out.
Read: Evening StandardLondon: Tomorrow's city
Dr Andy Hudson Smith (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) comments on how technology can play a bigger role in helping to make smart cities.
Watch: BBC News More: BBC News IICarbuncle Cup award for UCL student accommodation is 'unfair'
Lack of university control and restrictive council policy towards student housing is often overlooked, says Andrew Grainger (UCL Estates).
Read: GuardianStudents 'demanding more from academics'
Undergraduate surveys conducted by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) show an improvement in academic feedback at universities, but the picture varies sharply across the sector.
Read: The Times (£)Complex transmission of deadly MERS virus
Research led by Professors Alimuddin Zumla and Paul Kellam (UCL Infection) shows that the deadly MERS virus might have jumped from animals to humans several times.
Read: Shanghai Daily More: UCL News Reuters Voice of America The Scientist Arab News Der Spiegel (German)Housing boom brings year of the £40k brickie
John Kelsey (UCL Bartlett) comments on labour shortages in the construction industry, saying that the UK has previously depended on importing labour and no longer has an efficient system for training apprentices.
Read: The ObserverThe future's bright, but don't let it blindside you
The question for most people, rightly concerned with the future, is how far ahead you can look with any certainty that predictions will come true, says Professor Adrian Furnham (UCL Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology). Read: Sunday Times (£)
US-style university degree marks to end grade inflation
The government has established an advisory board to examine the benefits of the grade point average (GPA) system. Member of the advisory board Professor Mike Ewing (UCL Dean of Students, Education) said: "You can argue about details, but the case for GPA is tremendously persuasive."
Read: Sunday Times (£)