News for July 2006

Edge Hill University graduate Joanne McComb has gone back to school to encourage young people to follow in her footsteps.

As the demise of what was once the BBC?s flagship music programme looms, a leading North West academic has voiced concerns that the it is failing its youth audience by axing Top of the Pops.

Edge Hill University is ranked first in the North West for widening participation in higher education, according to performance indicators published today.

Wigan mother Stephanie Quinn has proved to be a 'first class? student after graduating with an Education and Literacy degree from Edge Hill University ? although the course of her studies didn?t exactly run smooth!

An Edge Hill University student is celebrating after picking up a prize for achieving the highest average percentage mark during her first and second years of study.

A celebration of learning took place at Edge Hill University to mark the end of its current contract with Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust.

Prize winners from Edge Hill University learned of their success at a special presentation event at the Ormskirk Campus.

PUPILS from Parkside Community College in Cambridge discovered the winning formula in a national mathematics competition held at Edge Hill University.

Edge Hill University?s Ormskirk Campus welcomed students eager to collect their degree results yesterday.

Two leading North West academics have found that having A-levels has no bearing on what class of degree students will achieve at University.

Experts from Edge Hill University will be uncovering the secrets in the sands as part of National Archaeology Week, at a workshop event on Saturday 15th July at the Ainsdale Discovery Centre.

Colleges from across the North of England have gathered at Edge Hill University to learn more about the implementation of a Government White Paper ? 14-19 Education and Skills.

Former air stewardess Carol Cooper has swapped business class for front of class after forging a career in education.

A MAJOR workshop to be held in Birmingham just after the first anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings will be told that Muslim communities in England are being victimised.

A nursing academic from Edge Hill University has called for the restoration of a Florence Nightingale statue, located in Toxteth, in time for the centenary of her death in 2010.