University of Sheffield - Beyond the veil
The first academic forum for female Saudi Arabian students has been held in the UK. The inaugural forum, at the University of Sheffield, brought together more than 100 women from the Middle Eastern...
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Dundee/York - Shaking the disease
A team of scientists has made a breakthrough in identifying new treatments for a parasitic disease that kills tens of thousands of Africans each year. Researchers at the University of York and the...
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Swansea University - Next-generation skills
A £20 million Welsh Assembly scheme to increase the number of highly skilled workers in Wales is to be led by Swansea University. The Access to Master's programme will provide annual bursaries and...
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University of Essex - The banks and the disappeared
Academic experts have intervened in a legal case and called for an investigation into the role of banks in financing those who committed human-rights violations in Argentina between 1976 and 1983....
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Newcastle University - Electric dreams a reality
Students and staff with electric cars will soon be plugging themselves in and charging up on campus. Newcastle University has joined the Plugged in Places project, which will introduce vehicle...
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Kingston University - Air link: we shall remember him
A new library has been named in honour of an aeronautical hero. Kingston University's Sir Sydney Camm Centre bears the name of the engineer behind the Hawker Hurricane, the Royal Air Force's first...
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University of Aberdeen - Bog-standard maintenance
Scientists are working to protect peat bogs, a crucial natural resource, from the threat of climate change. Peat bogs provide vast quantities of drinking water, are the UK's largest carbon store (...
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Queen's University Belfast - Sugar's sour effects
Researchers studying diet and health have confirmed a link between sugar intake in the teenage years and risk factors for diabetes and heart disease in later life. The findings were outlined by...
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St Mary's University College - On the side of the angels
The role of angels in theology, philosophy and culture will be discussed in a lecture by the author of a new academic book. Angels, A History looks at how the messengers of God have been imagined in...
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Royal Holloway, University of London - Height of conflict
Iraqi children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are shorter than those born in less violent areas, academics have found. Research using data from three independent surveys conducted...
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Thames Valley University - Creative connection
A new group will see a university collaborate with a network of specialists from the worlds of music, performing arts, film, media, photography, fashion and digital design. Thames Valley University's...
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Canterbury Christ Church/Hertfordshire - Graduate teaching
Malaysia is a step closer to its target to have an all-graduate teaching workforce by 2020 thanks to the universities of Hertfordshire and Canterbury Christ Church. They have worked with ߣߣÊÓƵ's...
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Cardiff saves rare-book riches from dispersal
University acquires 14,000-title collection of works spanning four centuries. Matthew Reisz reports
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Odds and quads
It was at Exeter railway station in 1935, after paying a visit to the author Agatha Christie in Devon, that the publisher Sir Allen Lane came up with the idea for Penguin Books.Appalled by the...
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Outsourcing grows as institutions find silver lining in cloud computing
Hannah Fearn on the bottom-line benefits of transferring IT functions to Google and Microsoft