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London Met vows 'ethical' fee shift

Times Higher Education -
Jack Grove reports Domestic and international students will pay the same postgraduate fees at London Metropolitan University under new reforms. The fee of about £8000 a year for full-time master's students was proposed in a draft review of postgraduate ...

Leadership candidates see different futures for UCU

Times Higher Education -
There are only two candidates: Sally Hunt, the incumbent, and Mark Campbell, a senior lecturer in computing at London Metropolitan University backed by the UCU Left. The UCU Left is an increasingly influential presence on the national executive ...

Lost on the road

Times Online -
I wrote to Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, but we need to do more. You can't just say goodbye to your loved one as they cycle off in the morning and never have them come back.

UK university applications fall 8.7%

Financial Times -
London Metropolitan University has started this process with some vigour. London Met, like other institutions, promises strong prospects and value for money - but it has been unusually aggressive in securing both.

More jobs face axe at London Metropolitan University

Islington Tribune newspaper website -
by PETER GRUNER A NEW threatened round of redundancies brought more turmoil to Holloway-based London Metropolitan University this week. With 229 jobs at risk, union officials are threatening strike action in the coming months.

Universities' role: Workplace skills have become the main focus for students

Financial Times -
London Metropolitan University is no stranger to the need to ensure its graduates gain employment, given its beginnings in 1848 as a workingmen's college.

Why can'ta Brit get a job at Pret?

Evening Standard -
Danny Fielding, 18, from Wood Green, a student at London Metropolitan university who wanted one of the part-time roles that Pret offers, says his rejection was too immediate to have received proper attention.

Former interior designer loses fight against MS

Maidenhead Advertiser -
Moira studied at college in Windsor before going to the London College of Furniture, now part of London Metropolitan University, and training as a furniture and interior designer. Her mother Margaret, 88, said: "She was a very artistic person and loved ...

Dan Snow narrates suffragettes documentary for Made in Manchester

How Do -
The indie has worked alongside the Women's Library and London Metropolitan University to compile the programme, which centres around interviews conducted by Oxford historian, Sir Brian Harrison between 1974 and 1981.

Scholars bear brunt of cash-saving plans

Times Higher Education -
By Jack Grove Job losses expected across all faculties as London Metropolitan bids to save £7m. Jack Grove writes More than 200 academics will be made redundant at London Metropolitan University under plans to save £7 million.

Experts slam 'naive' calls to regulate 'toxic' sugar

FoodNavigator.com -
Providing perspective on the Nature commentary for FoodNavigator, Professor Jack Winkler, formerly of the Nutrition Policy Unit at London Metropolitan University, said whilst it is “significant ... that Nature chooses to give a prominent place to such ...

Ex-Roker star inspired Jean

Sunderland Echo -
Jean, who recently retired from her last post as Director of Academic Development and Review at London Metropolitan University, said: “It was a delightful surprise to be honoured. It makes me feel very proud and humble at the same time.

Should alumni have a say in the governance of their alma mater? Photograph ...

The Guardian (blog) -
A 2011 Higher Education Policy Institute report authored by the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, Malcolm Gillies, argued that alumni were exactly the kind of people universities should seek to fill their boards, because they have the ...

Ever wealthier vice chancellors are leaving education behind

The Guardian -
With job security, pay and pensions under attack everywhere, it is no wonder that the University and College Union is up in arms at high managerial pay.

BBC social work film prompts calls for early police support

Children & Young People Now -
Image: NTI Mark Williams-Thomas, child protection expert at Birmingham City University and Dr Liz Davies, reader in child protection at London Metropolitan University, said the BBC2 programme highlighted a lack of input from police child protection ...

Cyclist deaths in Southwark: "carnage has to end" says councillor

London SE1 -
Last December ... Ellie Carey was cycling from her home in Peckham to London Metropolitan University where she had been studying for a Masters in international development.

Unbuilt London: The Best Of The Rest

Londonist -
A new gallery extension on the same site, by Amanda Levete Architects, was approved last year, while Libeskind's sole London work remains the London Metropolitan University graduate centre on Holloway Road. Long before the Millennium Dome was a twinkle ...

Food photography increases the appetite

Powerhouse -
Researchers at London Metropolitan University in London and Cornell University in New York collaborated in investigating how and why children choose particular foods and combinations of foods.

Lord Maurice Glasman, Labour life peer

The Guardian -
Maurice Glasman is a Labour life peer and director of the faith and citizenship programme at London Metropolitan University. Guardian Open Weekend : Lord Maurice Glasman.

No space in EC universities

Bizcommunity.com -
Of those, 280 were admitted to the Alice campus and 180 students in East London. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University spokeswoman Roslyn Baatjies said the university in Port Elizabeth had received 34 629 applications. "Out of this large number only ...
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