by Ellee Seymour | Oct 25, 2010 | News, university
I learned about a very special woman last week during a visit to Girton College, Cambridge. This was established as the UK’s first woman’s college in 1869 and located two miles north of the city centre to discourage “marauding male”...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 22, 2010 | News
Wayne Rooney brilliantly played Alex Ferguson and Manchester United with his sure footed manoeuvres to score his best victory yet – reportedly doubling his £90,000 a week salary following lame threats to join Manchester City. This has been calculated to equate...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 19, 2010 | News, university
My younger son James wanted to visit Sheffield Hallam University’s open day to have some back-up in case he fails to get into his first choice, which is Nottingham Trent, a firm favourite with many students I speak to, and well oversubscribed. As we approached...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 15, 2010 | News
I was confused when I saw Made in Dagenham last week as at the end it included some black and white news clippings from the 1960s showing older women on strike, while the film used much younger women. The successful and inspiring film is a dramatisation of the 1968...
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 13, 2010 | News
I had planned to stay up and watch the first Chilean miner being brought to the surface – ending 69 agonising days beneath the earth’s surface. I had wanted to share their exhilaration and see their faces as they were reunited with their loved ones....
by Ellee Seymour | Oct 12, 2010 | News, university, updates
The radical review of university tuition fees by Lord Browne will allow universities to charge unlimited fees. It proposes a free market in fees, though universities charging more than £6,000 a year would lose a proportion of the fee to help cover the cost of student...
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