The FINANCIAL -- Aston Business School’s Professional Mentoring Scheme for 2011/12 has proved a real success providing second year undergraduates with ‘real life’ business advice and an insight into leading organisations.

The FINANCIAL -- An optometrist at Aston University in Birmingham has been awarded a Fellowship from the European Academy of Optometry and Optics in recognition of his commitment to the profession.

The FINANCIAL -- The University’s Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems recognised young people’s efforts at an event attended by academics from across the UK.

The FINANCIAL -- The UK’s leading contemporary taxidermy artist, Polly Morgan, will give a live demonstration of her art process and discuss the inspiration behind her works.

The FINANCIAL -- The Right Honourable Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for Transport and alumna of London Business School, was guest speaker in an MBA class, Leading Teams and Organisation.

The FINANCIAL -- Most Londoners - including Boris Johnson supporters - see themselves as social liberals, according to the findings of a new online tool designed to help voters compare their political positions to those of the mayoral candidates.

The FINANCIAL -- The University of Auckland’s Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is taking part in the largest gathering of the world’s poets in history.

The FINANCIAL -- The Faculty of Engineering is to undergo a multi-million dollar redevelopment, which includes the creation of high-tech laboratories, a new engineering research facility and the expansion of an existing building.

The FINANCIAL -- Scientists at the University have found that mice and rats have evolved to gnaw with their front teeth and chew with their back teeth more successfully than rodents that ‘specialise’ in one or other of these biting mechanisms.

The FINANCIAL -- Ten students from across London Business School's degree programmes have taken part in the School’s first India Private Equity Trek.