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Students showcasing their ideas to potential investors
Made in Brunel showcases the fresh talent and creativity of students from Brunel University’s School of Engineering and Design. This year’s show is entitled ‘Thinking out Loud’ and will take place in the city’s Business Design Centre from the 9-10 June.
The show, now in its 19th year, showcases an array of design, engineering and multimedia projects that have been specifically developed to address some of the modern world’s biggest issues; such as climate change, well-being and health, transport, personal safety and security.
A wide range of industry professionals attend the show looking to find tomorrow’s talented designers and engineers. This provides Brunel’s students with a unique opportunity to network with important industry figures while attracting investors to their products, concepts and technologies.
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
The Love London Green Festival will host hundreds of free events to help Londoners save the planet. The festival aims to make the city a greener, cleaner and healthier place to live.
The festival inspires local communities to get passionate about our planet with a variety of interesting and fun events. This year the festival will be based upon the themes of green places, green living and green innovations.
Many events will even show you how to save money by protecting the environment, whether it be growing your own vegetables or cancelling your gym membership and cycling to work.
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
Aerial view of the Olympic stadium (source: LOCOG)
Construction of the 80,000 seat Olympic Stadium for the 2012 Games started just 11 months ago and work is well underway on the roof as the 53m high Olympic Stadium takes shape in the east London skyline.
The stadium is just one of many engineering projects providing London’s students with a great opportunity make contact with some of the world’s top construction and engineering companies or even gain some invaluable work experience.
Once built, a 20m-high mural ‘wrap’ will encircle the Stadium. Artists will decorate the wrap with historical sporting champions and participating countries’ flags to give the Stadium its distinctive appearance.
This massive engineering project will be complete in 2011. A year later the Stadium will host all athletics events for the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games as well as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, watched by millions of people around the world.
After the Games, the Stadium will be transformed into a 25,000 seat venue to host sporting, educational and cultural events. This will ensure the stadium remains at the heart of the local community for years to come.
To find out more visit: www.london2012.com
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Institute provides exceptional facilities for students, including outstanding libraries and the Gallery collection of paintings, drawings and prints, and sculpture and decorative arts.
Staff supervise research from Antiquity to the present, and the Research Forum offers access to visiting speakers from around the world. In the Courtauld Gallery you will find iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, as well as numerous other important works from the Renaissance through to the 20th century.
Quick facts:
- 405 students; 34 academic staff with a further 11 who teach specific courses; income of £9 million.
- Six undergraduate and postgraduate courses including MA in Painting Conservation (Wall Paintings) and Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings.
- Notable alumni include novelist, Anita Brookner; art historian, T.J. Clark; Director of the V&A, Mark Jones.
Contact details
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London, WC2R 0RN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2777
Web: www.courtauld.ac.uk
**This profile is part of a series which forms a directory of London’s universities. You can read more university profiles here as they are published.**
Tinchy Stryder is rapidly becoming one of the biggest stars in urban music
University of East London student Tinchy Stryder remains at the top of the UK music chart with his song Number One for the third week running.
Tinchy, whose real name is Kwasi Danquah, is in his final year at UEL studying for a BA Honours in Moving Image and Animation. Having grown up in Bow, East London, Tinchy has been around the grime scene, England’s version of home-grown garage and rap, for many years and has worked with major artists on the scene including fellow East Londoner Dizzee Rascal.
London’s universities have a history educating famous musicians. David Bowie, Leslie Jarret, Elton John, Andrew Llloyd Webber along with members from Blur, Coldplay, the Rolling Stones all studied in the city.
Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk
London School of Economics and Political Science
London School of Economics and Political Science (image: N.Stead/LSE)
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a world-class centre for its concentration of teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. Founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, LSE has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence.
Few university institutions in the world are as international as the LSE. The study of social, economic and political problems covers not only the UK and European Union, but also countries of every continent. From its foundation LSE has aimed to be a laboratory of the social sciences, a place where ideas are developed, analysed, evaluated and disseminated around the globe.
LSE has a cosmopolitan staff and student body with around 8,700 full-time students and over 800 part-time students at LSE. Students come from 140 countries around the world with 32 per cent from the UK, 19 per cent from other European Union countries and 49 per cent from other countries around the world. The student body is split 45 per cent undergraduates and 55 per cent on postgraduate programmes.
Quick facts:
- The School has over 1,460 full-time and 1,320 part-time members of staff – over 90 per cent of the academic staff are actively engaged in research, and 45 per cent are from countries other than the UK.
- Notable alumni: Fifteen Nobel Prize winners in economics, literature and peace have been either LSE staff or alumni.
- 32 past or present heads of state have studied or taught at LSE, 28 members of the British House of Commons and 42 members of the House of Lords have either studied or taught at LSE.
Contact details
LSE
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
Email: stu.rec@lse.ac.uk
Web: www.lse.ac.uk
**This profile is part of a series which forms a directory of London’s universities. You can read more university profiles here as they are published.**
Greenwich Park will host the Equestrian and Modern Pentathlon events.
The London 2012 Games will be the Green Games. The Olympic Park is located in an area of untapped potential and sustainability is at the heart of all building and legacy plans. A 35-tonne recycling machine is already sifting and sorting 70,000 cubic metres of industrial and domestic rubbish from under the VeloPark and Olympic Village sites.
Elsewhere, the cleaning and clearing of the Park is already ahead of plan and so far more than 90 percent of demolition material has been recycled and new habitats have been created to relocate local wildlife displaced by building works. Hundreds of tonnes of materials have been reclaimed including lampposts, bricks and manhole covers that will all be used to create aesthetic and practical features for the Park including paths, benches, lighting and water features.
The green vision for the Games continues beyond 2012, when the area will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years.
To find our more visit www.london2012.com
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
Conservatoire for Dance and Drama
Conservatoire for Dance and Drama
The Conservatoire provides world-class vocational training in dance, drama and circus arts.
Affiliate schools in London are Central School of Ballet; The Circus Space; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; London Contemporary Dance School; Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance; and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The schools have the very best facilities including eight theatre spaces and award-winning premises.
Recent graduates have gone on to work with leading dance and theatre companies including the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, the Globe Theatre, English National Ballet, Richard Alston Dance Company, and Cirque du Soleil. Technical theatre graduates can be found in every theatre in the country.
Quick facts:
- 1,124 students (95% undergraduate); 500 teaching staff; income of nearly £13 million.
- The schools offer vocational courses covering acting, circus arts, classical ballet, contemporary dance, stage management, theatre directing, lighting, costume and scenic design.
- Notable alumni include actors, Daniel Day-Lewis and Imelda Staunton; dancer, Siobhan Davies.
Contact details
Conservatoire for Dance and Drama
1-7 Woburn Walk
London, WC1H 0JJ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7387 5101
Email: info@cdd.ac.uk
Web: www.cdd.ac.uk
**This profile is part of a series which forms a directory of London’s universities. You can read more university profiles here as they are published.**
The orange pod above Queen Mary's science laboratory
A groundbreaking new science education centre will open at Queen Mary, University of London in September.
Centre of the Cell is the first science education centre in the world to be sited within working biomedical research laboratories.
Over 30,000 people are expected to visit the futuristic orange cell-shaped ‘Pod’ suspended within the award-winning Blizard Building in Whitechapel. Students will be able to watch scientists at work while inside the Pod.
The Centre will also provide students with the opportunity to use a combination of digital interactives, films and high powered microscopes. Students can even grow their own virtual stem cells for research.
Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk
London's cultural events highlight why the city is the creative capital
The Olympic Games may be over three years away but Londoners are already celebrating and opening their arms to the world with the Cultural Olympiad, a series of events that showcase our unique internationalism and cultural diversity.
The 2012 Games are a tremendous opportunity for London to display why it is the world leader not only in finance but in culture and creative industries. The Cultural Olympiad has already hosted a variety of events and students are enjoying some of the most creative, diverse and colourful cultural events ever seen at London’s famous landmarks, in its streets, squares and parks.
The Cultural Olympiad brings together culture and sport, encouraging a wide range of audience participation. During events, the streets of London become alive with animated and humanised public spaces, through street theatre, public art, circus skills and live big screen sites.
With such creativity in the city, there are unprecedented opportunities for emerging talents to work alongside great artists, musicians, dancers, performers, singers and other creative professionals.
To find out more visit: www.london2012.com
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
“London is a city where different cultures and thoughts meet. Living in this city, I never feel bored.
