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Geography and environmental sciences• Critical Transitions in Nature and SocietyBy Marten Scheffer, professor of environmental sciences, Wageningen UniversityPrinceton University Press, £26.95 ISBN...
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University of Edinburgh - Come blow your Lituus
Software developed by a University of Edinburgh PhD student will enable a long-lost trumpet-like instrument favoured by Johann Sebastian Bach to sound once more. The creation will allow one of Bach's...
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University of Leeds - Now then, Jim fixes it again
Sir Jimmy Savile, the former Radio 1 DJ best known for his television show Jim'll Fix It, has pledged up to £300,000 to support aspiring medical researchers at the University of Leeds. Sir Jimmy has...
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Cardiff University - This slug has no need for lettuce
A flesh-eating slug discovered by scientists at Cardiff University has been named by New Scientist magazine as one of the ten strangest species identified in recent years. Bill Symondson, faculty...
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University College London - Legacy of bondage
The debt owed by modern Britain to slavery is to be investigated by historians at University College London. The team aims to create the first encyclopaedia of British slave owners, an online...
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University of Greenwich - Pied piper of Chittagong
An explosion in Bangladesh's rat population will be tackled by a scientist based at the University of Greenwich. Steve Belmain, an applied ecologist in the university's Natural Resources Institute,...
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University of East Anglia - Basket cases
Basketry, one of the oldest forms of human technology, is the focus of a major research project at the University of East Anglia. The two-and-a-half-year programme, nicknamed "Beyond the Basket",...
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Newman University College - We must talk
A unique masters qualification promoting better communication between adults working with children and young people has been launched by Newman University College, Birmingham. Hilary Dunphy,...
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Liverpool Hope University - Humanitarian interventions
A group of 26 students at Liverpool Hope University will take part in an international volunteering programme. The team will spend between two and four weeks abroad, helping with schemes ranging from...
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University of Sussex - Relationship renewed
The contract between the University of Sussex and Study Group, the international education provider, has been renewed. Study Group will continue to manage the International Study Centre at Sussex,...
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University of Central Lancashire - Games plan
Britain's chances of securing an impressive haul of gold medals at the 2012 Olympics will be boosted by the University of Central Lancashire, if all goes to plan. The university has won a contract to...
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Universities of Aberdeen/Dundee - Shared experiences
Scientists from the universities of Dundee and Aberdeen have created software to help disabled children take control of conversations. The programme, called "How was school today?", allows children...
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Brunel University/Goldsmiths - Menace and melancholia
A film by academics at two universities will premier at a conference on Indian cinema. The film by Nirmal Puwar, senior lecturer in the department of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London,...
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The Open University - Pearson partnership
The Open University has partnered Pearson Plc, owner of the Financial Times, to launch a part-time MBA. The pilot Global MBA, to be launched this month, is a 30-month programme aimed at students in...
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University of Brighton - Happy anniversary
Lina Bjorno, a final-year performance and visual arts student at the University of Brighton, puts the finishing touches to her installation at the Burt Brill and Cardens Graduate Show 2009. This year...