The University and College Union (UCU), which represents academics, lecturers and researchers, has attacked plans for two-year undergraduate degrees as proposed in the project to develop a ‘multiversity’ in Croydon, as reported by ELL earlier this week.
Gavin Barwell, MP for Croydon Central, led a delegation of senior Croydon councillors on Wednesday to meet David Willetts, Minister for Universities, to push for the establishment of a new ‘multiversity’ in Croydon.
The future of the Olympic Stadium is in doubt again. Leyton Orient Chairman, Barry Hearn, launched a last-ditch campaign on Wednesday to prevent Premier League West Ham United from taking over the Olympic Stadium as their new home from August 2014.
East London councils have welcomed the softening of tough guidelines regulating street parties for the upcoming royal wedding.
The Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls in Hackney received the worst value-for-money rating for any comprehensive school offering A-level courses in England in 2010, according to official data released by Michael Gove, the education secretary.
ELL EXCLUSIVE: Drugs are being openly sold outside the main entrance to the Croydon Jobcentre Plus in the town centre. ELL reporters saw the dealers selling directly to people leaving the centre, which is in Dingwall Road, and within a few minutes of East Croydon rail and tram station.
Figures obtained from the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) have revealed that three out of the four boroughs covered by ELL feature in the top ten areas of youth unemployment in Britain.
The Fairbridge charity – which has a major centre in Hackney – has announced plans to merge with The Prince’s Trust in April.
The River Thames in East London forms part of the busiest stretch of water for lifeboat rescues in the United Kingdom, according to data released yesterday by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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