The School of Business and Law at the University of East London has been successful in gaining Graduate Gateway accreditation for its newly validated BSc Marketing course from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). The CIM Graduate Gateway programme gives students and graduates the opportunity to gain a professional qualification along with their marketing degree. The accreditation is an ...

“I’m not sure that we can look the nation in the eye and say that was a good day.” That’s how a Conservative MP has described the torrid scenes in the Commons in the last 24 hours. Did the prime minister alight on the frustration of many members of the public who may feel that Parliament has simply failed to ...

MPs have condemned the PM’s language and urged him to apologise after he said the best way to honour Jo Cox, the MP murdered during the EU referendum campaign, was to get “Brexit done”. He was also criticised for calling the law aimed at blocking a no-deal Brexit the “surrender bill”. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the PM’s words were ...

The Houston building where Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong and his colleagues were quarantined after their 1969 moon mission has fallen into disrepair and will be demolished, NASA said. The Lunar Receiving Laboratory at Johnson Space Center hasn’t been used for two years and will likely be torn down next year, the Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday. The building, completed in ...

The US and Japan have agreed an initial trade deal that will eliminate or lower tariffs on certain products traded between them. Duties on some agricultural goods will be removed or lowered, while digital products will also benefit.US President Donald Trump said the world’s first and third largest economies achieved a “tremendous” deal, reports BBC. The trade agreement did not ...

  Families flocked to Roman Road Market as Tower Hamlets residents joined cities around the world in celebrating Car Free Day on Sunday 22 September. People took to the streets for walking, cycling and a range of free fun activities to show the potential of traffic-free public spaces for everyone to enjoy. Housing estates in Bromley-by-Bow, Spitalfields and Poplar also ...

  The Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, visited the London East Alternative Provision, (LEAP) on 18 September. Based in Bethnal Green, LEAP offers an educational programme for young people who for whatever reason, have not managed to succeed in mainstream schools. In 2019, 85 per cent of pupils at LEAP received a GCSE or equivalent in English and ...

Tower Hamlets Council members have agreed a motion in opposition to London City Airport growth proposals. The motion was debated at a full council meeting on Wednesday 18th September. Members criticised the environmental damage that would be done through any increases in operations and highlighted the detrimental impact that the airport has on residents living in the East End, including Tower ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has presided over the inauguration of a second international airport for Beijing with a terminal billed as the world’s biggest. Beijing Daxing International Airport, built in less than five years at a cost of 120 billion yuan ($17 billion), is designed to handle 72 million passengers a year, reports AP.The Chinese capital’s main airport is the ...

Brussels, Sept 25 : Handing Google a major victory, the European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday that the EU’s “right to be forgotten” rules that allow people to control what comes up when their name is searched online do not apply outside the 28-nation bloc. Over the past five years, people in Europe have had the right to ask Google ...