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A London Metropolitan University student has scooped first prize in the British Glove Association’s Glove Design Competition. Eva Pospisilova is studying the accredited Foundation Degree in Fashion and Textiles at City and Islington College.

The London Met student won her prize in the ‘Design a glove for a pop star, past or present’ competition. Eva designed her glove for Madonna and incorporated a diamond motif on a printed fabric sleeve. Her prize will be GBP 300, three days’ work experience at the Textile Conservation Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and an invitation to an awards ceremony at The Drapers Hall. Read more…

The University of Brighton International Events Management BA (hons) course has always offered a practical stepping stone into the glamorous and challenging world of managing large events – but for four lucky students, it also catapulted them directly to the recent Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Four lucky University of Brighton students recently completed work experience at the Grand Prix of Bahrain, working hard to organise and entertain guests as well as selling merchandise and soaking in the atmosphere.
The trip began with training to prepare the students for the upcoming challenges over the four hard days of work. “During the day we worked in the hospitality tents, selling merchandise and promoting products,” said Amy Hooper, one of the students who travelled to Bahrain for the event. Read more…

Thames Valley University (TVU) has today (Wednesday 1 July) become the first university in England to have its own iPhone prospectus app. The application, iUni, is free and features details on TVU’s entire portfolio of courses and clear and easy to access information for students and parents. iUni allows potential students to apply online, go to the website, email through the auto-enquiry function or call TVU directly to learn more.

Young people are used to gathering information on the web, getting their email, listening to music, watching videos, getting directions, or pinpointing exactly where their friends are – anytime and anywhere – and iUni is a natural extension of this. The introduction of this application sees TVU pioneering the use of mobile technology in the education sector. Read more…

HSBC is providing £120,000 in university bursaries to help four promising students realise their potential and make the most of their time at university.

The bursaries will be awarded to the four students in November 2009, with £10,000 made available every year for three years. To enter, students1 need to complete a short online application2 explaining why they chose their degree and how they plan to use the funding. Read more…

Thames Valley University has been awarded for its innovative ‘Love Your Campus’ campaign.

The Further Education Award in the Internal Communications category was awarded to Thames Valley University (TVU) at The College Marketing Network’s 21st Anniversary Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Warwick.

TVU’s Love Your Campus campaign is the university’s way of promoting better conditions for students and staff by encouraging positive behaviour. A survey of university users revealed that life is pretty good at Thames Valley; but it also revealed a slew of simple things people can do to improve the environment further.

Arriving to lectures on time, having mobile phones switched off and refraining from swearing are just some of the things staff and students would like to see in fellow university users.

The university set about creating an imaginative and inspiring internal advertising campaign to promote a simple set of positive behaviour guidelines called Love Your Campus.

The College Marketing Network’s FE First Awards are now well established as the sector’s annual opportunity to celebrate marketing best practice. They showcase the excellent and imaginative work that is being achieved in further education colleges across the UK.

TVU is proud of being recognised for its work in making university life better. The campaign had already won a Heist award and now boasts an FE Award too!

The FE First Award judges said: “‘Love Your Campus’ was an excellent imaginative campaign which worked well with the college’s corporate image. The aim was to engage with students from all backgrounds, give them a sense of pride in the college and get them to change behaviour: a challenging task, based on research. Evaluation showed a good rate of student awareness. The entry was clear and well-presented.”

For more information on the work of Thames Valley University across a wide variety of disciplines in London, Reading and Slough, please visit www.tvu.ac.uk

Students grinding their way through the clearing process will be interested to know that official figures reveal that Thames Valley University (TVU) has the best graduate employment record against its benchmark in the country, with almost 95% employed within six months of graduating.

Students disappointed with their A-Level or Scottish Higher results needn’t be disappointed with the university Clearing gets them into: TVU is still accepting applicants, and offers unsurpassed career prospects for the future.

TVU, according to Times Higher Education magazine, has the “Best record for getting their students into employment” within the HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) survey of the destinations of graduates six months after leaving higher education. The survey compared employment performance indicators for all universities across the UK.

94.8 percent of graduates from TVU were employed or in full-time education within six months of leaving their course, which exceeds the university’s benchmark figure of 89.8 percent by a whole 5 percent – the widest margin of any of the general universities in the league table (excluding specialist institutions) – making TVU the best in the country for graduate recruitment.

The news that TVU graduates are amongst those with the highest employment prospects will no doubt be reassuring to the university’s current students, as well as those applicants who hope to begin studying at TVU in the coming academic year – and many students in the clearing process would be wise to consider the options available at the university as well.

Commenting on the figures, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter John said: “Our vision is to be the foremost employer engagement university in the country and these new figures, supported by our outstanding employer and industry links, show that we are well on the way to achieving this. At TVU we believe in helping students learn from work, learn for work and learn in work and we will continue to prepare students for their future careers from the moment they set foot in the door to the moment they leave.”

Thames Valley has been a full university since 1992, but has over 140 years experience in technical and vocational education. For more information on Thames Valley University and the clearing process, visit www.tvu.ac.uk