University of Derby - Duke becomes chancellor
The 12th Duke of Devonshire, Peregrine Cavendish, has been installed as chancellor of the University of Derby. Almost 400 guests attended the event marking the appointment, including honorary...
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Bucks New University - Wheely green idea
Charity Commonwheels has teamed up with Bucks New University to provide an on-campus green car club for employees and students. The club aims to reduce single-occupancy car journeys to and from the...
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Swansea University - STEM drive in schools
Engineering academics have launched a three-year initiative to persuade more Welsh students to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Swansea University engineers...
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The Open University - India's Moon shot to yield data
India's first mission to the Moon will provide data for two Open University researchers. Mahesh Anand and David Rothery, of the Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research, are co-...
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Bournemouth University - Sharing healthy attitudes
An International Centre for Wellbeing and Quality of Life has been launched at Bournemouth University. The cross-university centre, based in the School of Health and Social Care, will examine and...
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University College London - Where grey matter sees red
When viewing pictures of someone they hate, people display activity in distinct areas of the brain, new research suggests. Semir Zeki and John Romaya of the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology at...
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Keele University - Joint effort to reduce pain
Treatment of a painful joint condition may improve thanks to a project at Keele University. Researchers have won £788,000 in funding for a five-year study of osteoarthritis, a condition that affects...
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De Montfort University - Smart ways to tackle the crunch
Help is at hand for small businesses in Leicestershire worried about how to deal with the threat of recession. De Montfort University is offering a free workshop to assist local businesses from all...
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University of Manchester - Food inflation hits Asia's poorest
Three billion Asians face an impending food crisis, according to research carried out by the University of Manchester. Academics say the escalating cost of rice across Asia is slowing economic growth...
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The Robert Gordon University - Rapid response rehearsed
Businesses' survival may depend on their readiness to deal with terrorist or extremist activity, ranging from bomb threats and chemical or biological contamination to vandalism. The Robert Gordon...
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University of Wales, Newport - 007 tutor shaken but not stirred
One of the special effects in the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, a huge illuminated cube that pulsates to Latin rhythms at a party thrown by the film's villain, was designed and operated...
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University of Edinburgh - Novel appeal for Auden lecture
Fiction was due to turn into poetic fact in Edinburgh this week with Edward Mendelson, professor of humanities at Columbia University in New York, set to recreate a lecture about the poet W.H. Auden...
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Dundee accused of 'running down' child health institute
But university rejects accusations that it has not honoured donors' wishes. John Gill reports
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News in brief
Admissions proceduresLanguage rules may discriminateCertain university admissions procedures may breach equality legislation, the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has warned. Some universities have a...
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Call to abandon four-year degrees
Money saved could go to help poor Scottish students fund masters study. Olga Wojtas reports