Each year, King’s shares updates on the work taking place across the university to improve and enhance your experience. Much of this activity is shaped by feedback gathered through a range of student voice channels, including surveys, focus and advisory groups; and student partnership schemes. By sharing your views, you help us understand students’ evolving needs and respond to them.
You’ve told us how we can better support your academic and career journey, strengthen wellbeing and community, and enhance your campus experience. Below are just some of the improvements King’s has delivered in recent years with the help of student feedback and involvement.
Here's how your insights are making a difference:
Supporting your academic journey
We’ve extended Assessment Period 1 in January from one week to two weeks, so that you have more time to prepare for and complete your examinations.
We’ve launched a new online Academic Skills resource for 2026–27. The expanded KEATS site complements the Academic Skills programme of one-to-one tutorials and workshops available to all King’s students throughout the year.
We’ve expanded our range of AI-related courses available through the King’s Edge platform. These include the AI Starter Pack, Web Design with AI, Building Your First AI Agent with N8N and Slack and Sales Forecasting with Predictive AI. The Library also offers monthly Critical Use of GenAI classes to support your use of AI in your academic work and beyond.
We’ve introduced King’s Answers, a new brand for student enquiries to help you get the information you need quickly.
We’ve introduced Apps Everywhere on student computers across the university, making it quicker and easier to access the software you need for your studies.
We’ve rolled out our attendance and engagement software, Venio, which helps us check-in with you if you have missed multiple classes and offer support.
We’ve streamlined our Stage 1 academic appeals process, reducing the time it takes to receive an outcome. You can now track the progress of a case directly through Student Records, removing the need to email departments for updates.
Our Library & Collections team has introduced neuro-inclusive study clubs to support students who benefit from specific study environments.
Since 2015, the King’s Sanctuary Programme has provided safe harbour to aspiring students affected by conflict and displacement across the world. Over the next five years, King’s will fund 26 new undergraduate scholarships, continuing its history in helping these students to rebuild their lives and thrive within higher education.
We’ve added 200 study spaces at our Guy’s and Waterloo campuses, including the Guy’s Informal Learning Space. We have also introduced new furniture across our campuses, including seating with built-in charging points, giving you more space for independent study before, between and after classes.
Our Libraries & Collections team continues to expand its KLaSS workshop programme. This year, we introduced Critical Appraisal of Racial Bias in Health Research and are providing targeted information literacy training for students taking part in our King’s Plus and Black Excellence programmes, as well as members of the Mature Student Society.
King's Careers & Employability service has continued to expand its support for students
Supporting your career journey
We’ve recently developed King’s Launchpad, offering a range of activities aimed at students in their final year and recent graduates, helping to turn career ambitions into practical next steps. Whether you have a plan or you’re still exploring, you can choose the opportunities that are useful to you and gain recognition for what you do.
For all students, our King’s Edge platform continues to grow, with new features that make it easier to explore, tailor and take part in extracurricular activities that help you develop skills, gain experience and explore interests beyond your studies. After taking part in an activity, you’ll receive a fortnightly opportunities digest highlighting what’s coming up next. So far, the platform has received over 8,000 registrations, engaging 3,300 individual students across 167 different activity types, including our Summer Skills programme.
We’ve introduced Into Academia, a mentoring scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate students from Black and minoritised ethnic groups who are considering a career in academia.
Our Careers & Employability team continues to expand its range of digital tools to support you through your job search, applications and interviews. Recent additions include Student Circus, which offers support with international job hunting and country-specific guidance, and eCareersGrad, an online platform designed to help international students identify suitable UK employers offering sponsorship.
We’ve partnered with GradIntelligence to enable the faster release of digital award certificates once you’ve completed your studies. This helps students who need their documents to sit further examinations, apply for further study or enter job markets around the world.
King's has introduced a new Summer Buddies programme .
Strengthening your wellbeing & community
In November 2026, we held our first Wobble Week – a week of activities, advice and opportunities to connect with others, bringing together support services from across King’s to help you look after your wellbeing and feel supported throughout the semester.
Our Wellbeing Team now offers same-day appointments, which you can book up to two hours in advance. This gives you greater flexibility to access timely wellbeing support when you need it.
Our Chaplaincy offers a range of activities celebrating our multicultural and multifaith community, including the Dean’s Book Club, International Lunches, morning prayers and our Welcome Ceremony for new students.
We introduced our Summer Buddies programme to complement the Winter Buddies programme, helping students who stay in London during the holiday periods to connect with one another.
Our weekly Wellbeing Hubs continue to run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are now student-led initiatives, delivered by our Student Ambassadors in partnership with KCLSU, and provide opportunities for students to connect with others and engage in wellbeing-focused activities.
Our relaxed graduation offer continues for students who prefer to graduate in a less busy setting.
The KCLSU Buddy Scheme connects first- and second-year students at all levels of study with students in later years or at a higher level who share an identity that is important to them.
Our Live Well, Feel Great newsletter is published once a term, offering practical, up-to-date suggestions to support your wellbeing. Many come from our team of Student Life Content Creators, who also produce articles throughout the year to help you find and build your community.
King's is investing across Strand, Waterloo, Guy's and Denmark Hill campuses
Investing in your campuses
At Waterloo, we’ve refurbished the Stamford Street Apartments Lecture Theatre and parts of the Franklin-Wilkins Library, modernised the lifts in the James Clerk Maxwell Building and introduced weeknight dinners in the Franklin-Wilkins canteen from 16.45 to 19.00. You can also receive a 20% discount when you pay using UPAY.
At Guy’s, as well as the opening the Guy’s Informal Learning Space, we’ve also added group study space and upgraded examination beds in New Hunt’s House Library, while Henri’s Café in the Henriette Raphael Building has been converted into an informal learning space and a medical consultation room serving as an outpost of the Strand GP surgery.
At Denmark Hill, the KCLSU reception area has been converted into a coffee bar, appropriately named Café Neuro.
At Strand, we’ve completed a new, state-of-the-art research laboratory space to support our interdisciplinary sciences programme which will open soon. Portable induction loops have been installed in Special Collections and Archives at the Maughan Library, as well as in all other libraries. Redevelopment of the Bush House South-West Wing and North West-Wing is underway, which will create more teaching and study space.
Supporting your living arrangements
Finally, following a successful campaign by KCLSU, and research into the barriers some students face when accessing private rented housing, King's has established a partnership with RentGuarantor to help increase the options available to students seeking accommodation and reduce the cost of accessing a professional guarantor scheme.
Thank you for sharing your feedback in student surveys.
This is just a snapshot of recent activity. Your faculty and department will also be making improvements to your experience inside and outside the classroom.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. Your views play an important part in shaping the work we do to improve the student experience each year. Please continue to use our student voice channels so that we can keep developing our teaching, processes, services and spaces in order to deliver the best student experience possible.
Interested in what we’ve done in previous years? Read the 2025 article and 2024 article.