News for January 2006

This year's opening Six Nations fixtures may not be blessed with the likes of Johnny Wilkinson and Gavin Henson however one Edge Hill lecturer IS set to take the field.

Final year students from Edge Hill have rated the teaching in its Department of Law and Criminology as the best in the country in the first National Student Survey ? an initiative by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

Pupils from Evelyn Community Primary School proved that they have a thing or two to teach us all when they picked up certificates for peer mediation at Edge Hill?s Faculty of Education based at the Ormskirk Campus.

Despite cuts in Government funding and a reduction in the number of children of school age, Edge Hill has been asked to increase its teacher trainee intake by 64 places from next September.

Edge Hill lecturer Theo Bampouras is 'destined for down under? as he leads the Scottish Women?s water polo team into the Commonwealth Games.

Edge Hill is bucking the national trend according to recent applications figures.