Open University - No time for the soft sell
Small and medium-sized businesses have been advised to increase their spend on marketing to help steer themselves through the worst of the economic downturn. Two surveys conducted by the Small...
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Durham University - Anthropology hits the road
"Anthropology and development" days will be delivered in schools across the UK by Durham University postgraduates in a bid to raise awareness of the discipline among secondary-school pupils. They...
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UCL and Queen Mary - Big Draw unites art and science
Animators and illustrators are set to join forces with neurologists and geneticists to help launch an annual national drawing festival. Scientists from University College London and Queen Mary,...
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University of Warwick - Clever kids' rare opportunity
An overseas school for gifted youth is to be hosted by the University of Warwick this year, it has been announced. The winter school, which will last a week and a half, will take place in December in...
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University of Gloucestershire - Coroner records drug death
A man found dead in a storeroom at a University of Gloucestershire campus died from an overdose of opiates and alcohol, an inquest has heard. A cleaner found the body of Ian Lockey, 43, at the...
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London School of Economics - Workshops for Gulf businesses
The Abu Dhabi Government and business community is to receive executive training and research support through a London university's commercial arm. LSE Enterprise, a wholly owned subsidiary of the...
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University of East London - A gift to develop genius
Nine year-old piano prodigy Marc Yu gave a concert at the University of East London to celebrate his acceptance of the first ever Genius Scholarship Award, a new annual prize established by the...
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University of Bath - Climate change summit
Academic experts in engineering, chemistry, architecture, physics and economics gathered at the University of Bath last week to discuss how they could tackle climate change together. The researchers...
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Liverpool John Moores University - Board of trustees disbanded
The board of trustees at Liverpool John Moores University - which included Everton Football Club life president Sir Philip Carter and Phil Redmond, creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks -...
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Buckinghamshire New University - V-c awarded beard and badge
A doctorate from the fictional "Unseen University" has been handed to the vice-chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University by author Terry Pratchett. Mr Pratchett received his own honorary doctorate...
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University of Teesside - First takes
The University of Teesside's new digital TV and sound studio has been put to good use by Das Wanderlust, a band based in the Tees Valley. The £750,000 studio, a collaboration between the university's...
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Grant winners - Medical Research Council
The MRC has awarded £10.6 million to projects to develop better models of human disease, including diabetes, stroke, heart disease and age-related macular degeneration. Twenty research groups will...
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Hot Papers in Social Sciences 2006-08
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998 - 30 June 2008Hot Papers in Social Sciences 2006-08RankPaper Author(s), JournalCitations1 Social...
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Bring on enlightenment
Education should create more rounded individuals and a better society, not just a better-trained workforce, says Rudi Bogni
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