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A LECTURER from Aston University has won a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy. Dr Robin Clark, from Aston's School of Engineering & Applied Science, has become the university's first ever recipient of a Fellowship after only four years in the profession.

By Shahid Naqvi Universities are being increasingly forced to recruit engineering students from abroad because UK schools are failing to produce suitable candidates, the head of Aston University warned.

By Paul Groves As traditional boundaries become increasingly blurred in today's globalised society, the need to switch comfortably between different countries, cultures and ways of working is more acute.

Britain's most working class university is in the West Midlands, according to the Government. The University of Wolverhampton has topped a league table of higher education institutions with the most students from low income backgrounds.