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School children in Africa
According to the UN, more than 60 million children go to school hungry every day worldwide. To help combat the problem, Imperial College London has launched a new project to help local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa provide healthy school meals for local children.
The project will help governments to run school meal programmes using locally-sourced food, providing regular orders and a reliable income for local farmers. The project will also conduct a series of studies to analyse the cost and impact of the school meal programmes.
Supported by a $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project aims to ensure a reliable and fair market for local farmers’ products in countries such as Mali, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi and Kenya.
Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk
Cherie Blair with students (source: UEL)
The University of East London’s (UEL) new Sir John Cass School of Education was recently opened by Cherie Blair QC, a leading barrister and campaigner for equality and human rights.
The School of Education is one of London’s foremost centres for teacher training and will become a unique community resource for children and schools around London.
Accommodating almost 2,500 students, the School’s range of impressive facilities include:
- Research and specially equipped teaching areas
- A music, dance and drama studio
- ICT and science laboratories
- An art, design & textiles studio
Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk
University College London
London has more universities in the top 100 universities than any other city in the world, according to the 2009 Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings.
University College London was ranked 4th in the world, rising 3 places since last year and an incredible 30 places since 2004. The college is now ranked higher than Oxford University, which is ranked joint 5th together with another of London’s universities, Imperial College London.
Other notable entries in the top 100 include King’s College London at number 23 and the London School Economics (LSE) at number 67.
The Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings measure universities using a number of criteria including academic peer review, employer review, the faculty staff to student ratio, citations per faculty and the proportion of international students and international staff at each university.
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
The National Gallery
Inside Out is a major new arts festival organised by nine of London’s leading creative universities.
It is the UK’s first-ever festival of higher education and will see a range of cultural events taking place all over the city, both on-campus and at leading cultural venues in the city including King’s Place, Somerset House and the National Portrait Gallery.
From film and music to theatre and visual art, from exhibitions and screenings to workshops and debates, the Inside Out Festival will add an extra splash of colour and energy to the city’s university campuses in October.
The participating universities are:
- University of the Arts London
- Birkbeck, University of London
- City University London
- The Courtauld Institute of Art
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Guildhall School of Music & Drama
- King’s College London
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Royal Holloway, University of London
Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk
Roehampton University
Roehampton University has signed a cooperation agreement with the College of Technology at the Vietnam National University to develop a joint Master’s degree in information management.
The degree is the first in a number of Master’s degrees that the institutions will develop together, with a business Master’s next on the agenda.
This is the second South East Asia partnership for Roehampton, who recently established a relationship with the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia to run a joint MSc in Psychology, helping to address Cambodia’s shortage of psychology practitioners.
Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk
Marta Rabikowska (centre), leading the research
The University of East London and Queen Mary, University of London have been awarded £125,000 by the Leverhulme Trust to fund a two-year project on the health of immigrants living in London.
The project will investigate the types of healthcare different ethnic minority groups living in London receive, including those in the Indian, Nigerian and Polish communities. The study will use filmed interviews to document how migrants from the three countries keep healthy and treat illness, including how traditional knowledge and practices may have changed since they first arrived in the UK.
It is hoped that the research will help doctors and other healthcare professionals to recognise the importance of culture when they treat different ethnic groups.
Kevin – www.studylondon.ac.uk
The Queen at Thames Valley University
Thames Valley University (TVU) recently welcomed Her Majesty The Queen to open its award-winning building, Paragon House. The new building is home to the Health and Human Sciences faculty, providing students with a state-of-the-art Nursing Simulation Centre and panoramic views across the London skyline.
TVU is one of the largest providers of student nurses and midwives to the NHS. The new lecture theatres at Paragon House will be used to teach and train the next generation of nurses as part of the university’s 10-year teaching contract with the NHS.
During the opening ceremony, The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh watched a live dance performance by arts students and a hospital demonstration by nursing students using a state-of-the-art electronic dummy.
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
It’s official, London is a cheaper city to live in than New York and many European cities.
There has never been a better time to study in London. For example, it is now 25 percent cheaper for American students to study in London than it was last year.
Weakening exchange rates helped London fall 19 places to number 27 in this year’s Economist Intelligence Unit survey. This represents great value for students who want to study in a global city and gain a world-class education. It is no wonder London is home to more international students than any other city in the world.
The Worldwide Cost of Living survey is an unbiased and independent guide to prices and products in 140 cities around the world. The survey considers costs such as accommodation, entertainment and also everyday costs such as buying a loaf of bread.
Simon – www.studylondon.ac.uk
St Mary’s University College, Twickenham
St Mary’s University College, Twickenham
St Mary’s was ranked third for university colleges behind two highly specialised university colleges and fourth for media and arts.
St Mary’s is a high performance centre for sport and has strong links with the English Institute of Sport and UK Athletics which are both based at St. Mary’s. The College has strong links with local employers through credit bearing work experience modules on many study programmes.
Quick facts:
- 3,850 students, 180 academic staff; income of £26 million.
- Over 60 programmes covering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, foundation degrees and short courses.
Contact details
St Mary’s University College
Waldegrave Road
Twickenham, TW1 4SX
Tel: +44 (0)20 8240 4004
Web: www.smuc.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.**
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