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Investigate London’s Photographic Archives

Explore some fascinating collections in the new year

The scene in Finsbury Square, around 3.30pm.

Student Protests Update: Largely Peaceful As March Reaches End

Several thousand students march through London to protest education changes.

'Lighting up London' taken on the Southbank by neal1973

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There was big news from Libya, but here’s what happened closer to home

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Mapping London’s Educational Divide

London’s constituencies mapped according to education levels.

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Higher Education For Sale: Private College To Charge £18,000 A Year

If you can’t beat ‘em, join them: elite private £18,000-a-year university to ‘rival Oxbridge’.

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Lambeth To Run Out Of Primary School Places By 2015

Lambeth Council launches campaign to squeeze more funding from central government.

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New Mayor’s Fund Backs Music Scholarships For Kids

Boris launches a new charity to support young music talent across the capital.

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Why Study At Middlesex University?

Thinking about going back to uni before those tuition fee hikes kick in? Middlesex University has a January intake for both undergraduate and postgraduate study.

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BBC London indulges in some scare-mongering about timber frame buildings. Scandalous school trend of the week: poor white kids in London are faring worse than their peers from ethnic minorities. Scandalous school story of the day: the Friends of St. Thomas More School aren’t very …

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Get A Degree In Shopping From Harrods

School of Harrods by daveograve@ Perhaps in a bid to restore a serious retail reputation to Knightsbridge’s most famous “cornershop” and eclipse the dominant personality of its Chairman and former proprietor, Harrods starts 10 of its employees on a prototype 2 year undergraduate degree course …

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New Courses @ Bishopsgate Institute

Enrolment opened today for a new season of short courses at Bishopsgate Institute, running April to July. Whilst ‘adult education’ has a worthy yet yawn inducing ring to it, the Bish’ has a programme of courses that not only span your usual languages, holistic exercise …