Bangor University - Wonder twins, activate
Academics from Wales and Tanzania are to be united under a new twinning agreement. Bangor University is the first UK institution to lead a pairing under the University Twinning and Networking Scheme...
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University of Stirling - Off the court, on to the campus
Britain's top wheelchair tennis player has put down his racket and picked up a pen, enrolling for a degree in sports studies and psychology at the University of Stirling. Gordon Reid arrived on...
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University of Southampton - Just say 'no' to oil, group tells v-c
A group of academics is calling on the University of Southampton's new vice-chancellor to transform the institution into the country's first "transition" university. The transition movement aims to...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - The secret is out
Four hundred years of intimate English secrets are being revealed thanks to a professor of history. Amanda Vickery, from the department of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, has...
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School of Hygiene/Tropical Medicine - Birth of hope
A new centre is to bring together experts on the health of pregnant women and their babies. Poor maternal, reproductive and child health are major contributors to ill-health worldwide, leading to...
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University of Aberdeen - Because patients are people, too
The "human side" of the medical profession is to be explored at the University of Aberdeen. It has launched courses based on the premise that there is more to caring for the human body and mind than...
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The Open University - Old hands, new gadgets
Researchers will examine how older people deal with technology in their everyday lives. The Open University is part of a European team that has been awarded funding for the Older People and...
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Liverpool Hope University - It's got the power
Research degree-awarding powers have been handed to Liverpool Hope University. Previously its research degrees had been awarded through the University of Liverpool. In a recommendation to the Privy...
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Leeds Metropolitan University - Beyond war
A group of leading international experts on landmines will work with Leeds Metropolitan University to further the study of post-conflict reconstruction. The Mines Advisory Group, which was a co-...
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Bath, West of England and Exeter - Booster for workplace wellbeing
Academics in the South West are leading a region-wide project that aims to cut sickness absence by 25 per cent by improving wellbeing at work. The project will unite businesses, including Royal Mail...
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City University London - A kinder, gentler City
Business experts have taken part in a "big City brainstorm", generating ideas to help London recover its reputation as the world's leading financial centre. The event at City University London...
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University of Bournemouth - What downturn? We're growing
A university is bucking the sector's trend of shedding staff and recruiting 36 academics. According to Paul Curran, vice-chancellor of the University of Bournemouth, its expansion was made possible...
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Bat's not where I expected it to be
One of Britain's rarest bats, the Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii), has been found by a PhD student at its most westerly site ever recorded in the UK. Discovered on National Trust land in...
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Overseas briefing
SpainSun won't shine on Israeli teamThe Spanish Government has disqualified a team from an Israeli university from taking part in a biennial competition to design and build houses using solar power...
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Finances of e-school are not making the grade
Four UK institutions receive tiny return on millions invested in U21Global. Melanie Newman writes