University of Edinburgh - Aviation veteran honoured
One of the greatest pilots in aviation history is to get an honorary degree from his alma mater. Eric Brown, born in 1919, learnt to fly as a student at the University of Edinburgh and was on an...
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Edge Hill University - £1.8m for primary school training
A £1.8 million government contract has been awarded to Edge Hill University to run a national training programme for primary school teachers. The money from the Department for Children, Schools and...
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Bangor University - Solar leaf gets chance to shine
A group of chemists is beginning a feasibility study into a "super-leaf" that could be used as an innovative and cost-effective solar technology. Peter Holliman is leading the Bangor University team...
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Staffordshire University - Screen scheme with prize lustre
An agreement has been struck that will allow Staffordshire University to run "Bafta-branded" lectures, workshops, masterclasses and seminars. The deal between the university and the British Academy...
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University of Cumbria - A place to check out the birds
They spend ages in isolation, looking for things never seen before while their relatives wonder why they do it. That may sound like a description of many academics, but these solitary souls are the...
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University of St Andrews - Auld Acts given new byte
Fuel shortages, arguments over tolls to cross the Firth of Forth, binge drinking, the credit crunch and the sensitive subject of MPs' expenses - Scottish politicians were debating them all in the...
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University of Reading - Food from farm to fork to fitness
Multimillion-pound animal science and nutrition research facilities at the Centre for Dairy Research have opened at the University of Reading. The centre is one of only three in the European Union to...
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University of Stirling - A sporting chance to excel
The £600,000 hub of a national network of excellence supporting elite student athletes will be based at the University of Stirling, the Scottish Funding Council has announced. It will help create...
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Bolton/Manchester School of Sound Recording - A musical spectacle
A degree in music video production will be a first for the UK. The BSc course, currently in the process of being validated, is to be launched by the University of Bolton and the Manchester School of...
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Ulster/Queen's Belfast - Mixed couples are better off
Couples in mixed Protestant-Catholic relationships in Northern Ireland tend to be more educated and to have higher incomes than those in traditional relationships, according to research from the...
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University of Dundee - A Dandy place for comic meeting
The birthplace of Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx will host the second international comic conference next month. Dundee's history is inextricably linked with the DC Thomson empire that...
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Edge Hill University - An academic ear on Eurovision
An academic is to travel to the Eurovision Song Contest as an expert commentator. Phil Jackson, a senior lecturer in media at Edge Hill University, has been selected by the BBC to attend the contest...
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Newport School of Art, Media and Design - Show of self-portraits
Emma Henley, a student at Newport School of Art, Media and Design, will show a series of self-portraits entitled Newport Bus Station at the school's annual graduate show, which starts next week at...
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Virtual practice leads list of HEA award winners
A professor who has helped develop technology allowing law students to act on behalf of "virtual" clients is among this year's batch of Higher Education Academy senior fellows.Students of Paul Maharg...
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'We must focus on students as learners'
HEA chief executive says that inspiration not consumerisation is key to university experience, says Rebecca Attwood