9.30 history seminar 11.00 pitch for Smith account

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The increasing cost of university fees will mean more students will be looking at ways to support themselves whilst they are studying. Some undergraduates have chosen to start their own businesses. A few universities, such as Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland, actively try to support the students. They feel it is important to help the students plan their work around their business, to give them a wider opportunities and to stop them taking on too much work. Some students felt they had little assistance from their lecturers whilst carrying out their businesses.

Analysis, Management, Students, Business enterprises, Student activities, School activities

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Cerebral escape for sex workers

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Project workers, Rio Vella and Sandra Shanks from Maze Marigold Project in London, England, have been trying to encourage a number of prostitutes to give up sex work and undertake higher education courses. It is hoped they will go on to take a BA degree in voluntary sector studies. The Maze project has been given 20,000 pounds sterling from the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial fund to help them continue their work. Vella and Shanks have also been working with Sister Lynda Dearlove who works for the housing charity, Providence.

Evaluation, Officials and employees, Practice, Education, Charities, Prostitutes, Adult education, Volunteer workers in social service, Social service volunteers, Shanks, Sandra, Vella, Rio

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Britain fails its screen test

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Britain's National Film and Television School (NFTS) no longer appears in a list of top schools in a survey from El Pais, which rates Paris, New York, California and Cuba more highly than Britain. The NFTS has become more focused on TV and has more commissioning editors as visitors than previously.

United Kingdom, Training, Motion picture industry, Movie industry, Film schools

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