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Welcome to BBC London News. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:13 | |
I'm Claudia-Liza Armah. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
New figures out today reveal that not only London universities | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
have the worst drop-out rate in England. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
But those students are more likely to be black or from poorer families. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
The University Partnerships Programme Foundation found | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
on the whole, nearly one in ten drop out during their | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
first year of study. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
Something it says needs to be tackled, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
as Sonja Jessup has the story. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:36 | |
Well, here in London, of course, we boast some | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
of the world's top universities, such as here at UCL but it seems | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
that across the capital, although we are very good | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
at attracting students to university, we're really not | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
so good at retaining them. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
In fact, one in ten drop out during their first year. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
We can find out more about these findings by speaking | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
to the report's author, thank you for joining us. | 0:00:55 | 0:01:00 | |
Why do you think so many students are dropping out? | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
I think there are three sets of factors. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
The first issue was about who's studying in London. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:10 | |
We know the population of students there's actually a high of black | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
students in most universities. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
Other research tells us that black students are more likely | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
to drop out than average. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
That is partly an issue of who is going into university. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
The second set of factors are around the institutions themselves | 0:01:22 | 0:01:28 | |
so if you look at national student survey, you look at what students | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
say about the universities they going to and the courses | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
they are studying, you see a lower satisfaction score on average | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
for London universities than for other universities outside London. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
There is an association between lower satisfaction scores | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
and higher drop out rates. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
And then there's a third set of factors which are very important | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
but probably harder to get to the bottom of, which are around | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
the affordability of London. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
We also know that students who live in London also have to commute | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
longer distances to go to university so they may be able to spend less | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
time on their courses. | 0:01:58 | 0:01:59 | |
So, what do we do about this? | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
How do we address this problem? | 0:02:01 | 0:02:02 | |
I think first point is to hold the government to account. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
So, we suggest there should be a target specifically | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
on ethnic minority groups, so we bring that down to the average | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
score in terms of dropout rates. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
We also think there's something the Mayor of London could do, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
so it might be around housing, it might be around facilities | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
that universities have and the planning consent. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
It might be around transport connections. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
There's also a lot universities themselves can do. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
OK, thank you very much. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
So, lots of challenges for universities to consider if they | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
want to address these issues. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
And if they want students not just to sign up but also | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
to state on their course. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
More details are emerging on the cladding used | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
on Grenfell Tower. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
Burning cladding on the tower could have released 14 times more | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
heat than a key government safety test allows. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:53 | |
According to research by the University of Leeds, | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
its plastic core would have burned "as quickly as petrol." | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
The contractors who fitted the cladding and insulation say | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
they both passed all regulations. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
Hundreds of passengers landing at Gatwick Airport are being left | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
stranded after the company they parked their cars | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
with appears to have gone bust. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
Gatwick First Parking, is not an approved | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
meet-and-greet parking company. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Police have been receiving reports over the last few days of people | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
unable to collect their cars. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:19 | |
Ian Palmer reports. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
Frustration at the car pound. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:28 | |
The baby was with us. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
He's an eight-month-old baby so trying to keep him asleep | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
while we're waiting around at Gatwick at stupid | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
hour this morning has been a tough 24 hours. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
Gatwick First Parking is a meet and greet company. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
The firm went bust leaving customers stranded without their vehicles. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
Libby, who went to Gatwick last Saturday, at 11 at night. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
She, her husband and twins had no way of getting home to Kent. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
Two screaming one-year-olds. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
Hungry one-year-olds. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
Finally, we decided we needed to get a taxi because we just | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
needed to get home. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
So we got in a taxi, ?130 later we got home. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
Two hours almost later as well, got home at 2:30am. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:11 | |
It is not known how many people are affected but Sussex police have | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
told us they have at least 150 cars. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
People coming back late at night, they've got children, | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
they want to get home, they've got long journeys, | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
they ring this company to get their car back to travel home | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
and, of course, there's no answer. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:26 | |
The website's shut down. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
They can't get hold of anybody. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
And they are really stuck, what can we do at this time of night? | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
Of course, they're calling Sussex police. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:35 | |
Whereas, as I say, this is a civil matter, and we're very hands tied, | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
to a certain extent. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:40 | |
Anyone affected by Gatwick First Parking going bust is being advised | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
to contact trading standards. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
We are working with Sussex police and Gatwick airport itself. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Hopefully to try and resolve this issue, get consumers their keys back | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
and then hopefully they can return home safely. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
The Augustin family have a disabled daughter. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
They need their car because it has specialist equipment inside. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
This seat is for my disabled daughter. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
Without it, she struggles to sit. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
In the end, this was just a car but the seat was what really | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
she needs on a daily basis. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:13 | |
So that's really bad. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
Mr Augustin will now return home to Kent with the family car | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
but there are flights arriving at Gatwick or the time. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
And on those planes will be more Gatwick First Parking customers. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
Ian Palmer reporting there. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
The BBC has been unable to contact Gatwick First for comment. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:37 | |
Now, when's the last time you used a red phonebox? | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Well, a growing number of companies are renting them | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
to use as office space, mobile repair shops | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
or even coffee shops. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:44 | |
There are already 20 in the capital. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
And it's giving firms a chance to be in prime parts of Central London, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
for a fraction of the price, as Nicola Ford found out. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
It's a shop in a prime London location but there's no place | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
to make a cup of tea or go to the loo, and the customers | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
definitely can't come in. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
That's because the shop is in a disused red telephone box. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:10 | |
It's where Farwad spends 7.5 hours a day repairing mobile handsets. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
The advantage is you never bored. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
Because you are sitting in the street. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
Looking at people. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
The disadvantage is sometimes the noise and cars, | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
and the pollution. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
This phone box lies on the old Brompton Road in between | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
Harvey Nichols and Harrods. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:33 | |
So, how does it feel to work in one of London's most | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
recognisable landmarks? | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
You start to be iconic as well if you work in an iconic | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
place, you are iconic... | 0:06:41 | 0:06:43 | |
Too! | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
For the founder of the mobile repair company Love Fone it makes sense | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
for them to work out of disused phone boxes. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
I guess it's funny that, you know, obviously the mobile phone has made | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
the phone box obsolete. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:57 | |
So we are now bringing them back into service. | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
It is the next revolution, the next form of life | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
for these phone boxes. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
And with rent at ?300 a month, it is cheap compared to the average | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
rent in Knightsbridge. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
But one question remains - what do they do when they need the loo? | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
We have a good agreement with some local pubs. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:21 | |
Yeah, they let us use the loo. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
And we fix their phones for free. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
Well, after the overnight storms and lightening, | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
is today going to be a bit calmer? | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
Here's kate Kinsella. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
Good afternoon. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
Well, the storms last night you'd have thought may have | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
cleared the air somewhat. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:46 | |
Unfortunately, that's not the case. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:47 | |
Let's look at some pictures from last night. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
Hundreds of flashes of lightning created some very beautiful pictures | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
from our weather watchers. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
The post-storm pictures more like this. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
Lots of standing water first thing this morning but it's been very warm | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
so that's all evaporated away, bright spells this afternoon but it | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
will remain pretty warm and humid. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
There is quite a lot of cloud, it's thinning, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
not necessarily breaking, though, so you may get some hazy | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
brightness out there. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
If the sun comes out, the temperature will shoot up. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
In the meantime, temperatures between 23-26. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
Just feeling very sticky, warm and humid. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
Overnight tonight, looks like a dryer affair | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
compared to last and. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
Still the chance of one or two showers, nothing | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
too significant but, again, it's going to be quite a warm | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
one, the minimum around 17. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:34 | |
So, a warm, humid start tomorrow, some showers moving through. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
Now, these are a cold front and that gradually moves away eastwards | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
through Thursday morning. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
Behind it, it clears slightly, we get some brighter and sunny | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
spells but it introduces some much fresher air. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
It will feel pretty cool tomorrow afternoon compared | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
to today, around 23. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
For Friday, we've got some low pressure to the west of the UK, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
starting to fling some weather fronts towards us. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
That's going to make the weather changeable heading into the weekend. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
Looks drier for Friday but then a showery regime as we head | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
through Saturday and Sunday and it is going to feel | 0:09:07 | 0:09:09 | |
quite a bit fresher. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:15 | |
And there'll be more on last night's weather at 6:30pm. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
If you have any pictures or videos you can tweet them to us at BBC | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
London News or email us. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
But for now that's it from the lunch team. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
Goodbye. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:27 |