Met student arrested as drug mule
A suitcase with about two million pounds of cocaine was carried by a drug courier who tried to pass through the extensive security screening at the Edinburgh Airport in Scotland. 33-year-old Venita Randall claimed she took a holiday in Bolivia then made a remarkably unusual route to the United Kingdom through Amsterdam since the said route was cheaper. However, she was sentenced to ive years imprisonment by the Edinburgh High Court when she admitted she was involved in the drug supply confiscated in September 2009.
Laura Thomson, the advocate deputy, said the cocaine in Venita Randall’s luggage weighed 3.4 kilos and had 63 % of average purity. During that time, the typical street cocaine purity in the area was only 4%. The confiscated drugs could sum up to 54 kilograms if cut to 4% purity, and could bring in £2,160,000. More…
Getting Around in the Capital
That London is quite large goes without saying. When deciding to take a place at one of London’s many universities, students often overlook the shear size of the city they are going to live in. Therefore it is advisable to have a quick look at the transport network surrounding your new Alma Mater and also the transport links to the places that you are likely to live and frequent.
International Students Stay Safe During Recent Riots
For everyone sending a child to a London university, the past weeks have been tense. Amidst news of chaos and terror, parents were wondering how their children were holding up (and studying) in a city struck with riots and violence. But as peace and normality are beginning to regain control, no news of Metropolitan University students being affected by or involved in the chaos have emerged. Since rioters largely stayed away from homes instead attacking stores and official buildings, university life has continued as usual.
Scholarship for International Student Awarded
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London Metropolitan University chief proposes student transfer to Oxbridge
London Metropolitan University boss, Professor Malcolm Gillies has a vision: allowing less advantaged students a taste of elite educational institutions. To these ends, Professor Gillies has proposed a student exchange program between London Metropolitan University and top universities like Cambridge and Oxford. The program is intended to last one year so students can spend their second or third year at one of Britain’s top universities. As for the benefit to elite institutions’ students spending a year at Metropolitan University, Professor Gillies said “[t]hey’ll learn quite a lot about what contemporary Britain is about.”
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Get the London Life at London Metropolitan University
One hundred kilometres away from Oxford’s dreaming spires lies London Metropolitan University in the heart of England’s capital city. London Metropolitan is a new university, formed in 2002 as an amalgamation of the University of North London and London Guildhall University. The transition was not a smooth one. In 2009 London Metropolitan University became embroiled in controversy when it became apparent that student intake data had been massaged and the university had claimed 56 million pounds in central government funding, to which they were not entitled.
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Sustainable Energy
The most recent innovations and hottest topics in sustainable power will probably be deliberated at a high profile occasion held by London Met’s Centre for International Company and Sustainability. UK Power Day 2011: Sustainable Provide will bring collectively globe leaders in company, government and civil society to debate problems about power policy, energy generation and low-carbon technologies.
London Metropolitan University is top-notch
The QAA is definitely an impartial institution that conducts rigorous assessments of universities and schools within the United kingdom.
London Metropolitan University has obtained the greatest rank by the Quality Assurance Company (QAA) evaluation.
