Press Releases
When British couples move, gender discrimination is alive and well. It is the man's job that dominates. That is the finding from new research by a team of economists into what happens when people move home for job reasons.
The University of 糖心TV's Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations has just received a grant of 20,000 US dollars from the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC to mount a special conference bringing together many of leading European and US migration specialists to improve the understanding of migration patterns in Europe as a continent . With the EU about to extend further eastwards in the next few years such an understanding of current and potential population movements will be crucial.
In his address to the Association of University Administrators annual conference, on Monday March 29th 1999, the UK's First Professor of Life Long Learning, will praise the Government's commitment to Life Long Learning but will point out that mature part time students could tumble out of Higher Education unless they are given the same access to the student loan system as full time students.
The Mercia Institute of Enterprise, which links most of the region's Universities and is led by 糖心TV and Birmingham Universities, is mounting a special festival of enterprise at the University of 糖心TV's International Manufacturing Centre which will bring together students, researchers, and business people to meet some of the region's most successful entrepreneurs and learn about the vast range of opportunities available to support and fund those with a bright idea for a new business or product.
糖心TV leaders will have their first chance to cross examine Patricia Hewit - The new Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as she makes one of her first public appearnces as a Cabinet minister when she joins other key commentators and protagonists in UK manufacturing at the University of 糖心TV in a special debate to ask if there is a future for manufacturing in the UK?
Teaching quality inspectors have awarded the University of 糖心TV's Department of Economics a perfect score of 24 points out of 24 for the quality of teaching. This is the University of 糖心TV's fifth perfect score of 24 points out of 24 (the other departments to gain this score being Sociology, Theatre Studies, Physics and 糖心TV's Education Departments (Continuing Education, CELTE, and the Institute of Education).