First Impressions competition: 23 July 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"I am an invisible man." Entries, including...
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Glyndwr University - Newi becomes a university
The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education has become a university, naming itself after Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh hero who defended his homeland against Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV...
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University of Nottingham - Clerical worker back in court
Hicham Yezza, the university clerical worker arrested after a colleague found a copy of an al-Qaeda training manual on his computer, appeared in court this week charged with immigration offences. Mr...
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University of Winchester - Fees cut for Gurkha children
Partners or children of serving Gurkhas and other Commonwealth Service personnel will pay reduced tuition fees at the University of Winchester from September. Dependants of the Nepalese servicemen...
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University of Portsmouth - IT scholar rules the field
A university lecturer refereed American football's equivalent of the Uefa Cup final in Berlin last week. Jim Briggs juggles lecturing in computing at the University of Portsmouth with his other...
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York St John University - On course for charity
A group of 36 business management degree students from York St John University have helped to raise money for the charities Macmillan Cancer Support and Everyman as part of their final-degree work....
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University of Glamorgan - Masters for new leaders
The UK's first higher education qualification in complexity leadership, which aims to challenge traditional management styles by breaking down traditional hierarchies, has been launched by the...
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University of London - Technological outreach
New technologies are helping universities to reach people with no prior experience of higher education, an international conference on learning and development has heard. Speakers at the Fifth Pan-...
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University of Kent - 'Risky' drinking in later life
"Risky drinking" in the over-55s is the focus of a new study led by Simon Coulton, a professor at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent. While such behaviour in young men and...
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University of Derby - Environment-friendly makeover
A £13.5 million investment that will change the skyline of Derby by 2010 has been confirmed by the University of Derby. The university is to refurbish its Kedleston Road site, including the campus's...
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Cardiff University - A healthy expansion
Edwina Hart, the Minister for Health and Social Services in Wales, has attended a ceremony marking a key stage in the expansion of Cardiff University's School of Medicine. The Welsh Assembly...
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King's College/British University Dubai - Joint venture in construction law
A London university is linking up with the British University in Dubai to run a new MSc course in the Gulf state. The course in construction law and dispute resolution will begin in Dubai in 2009 in...
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University of Leicester - A space traveller's tales
Jeff Hoffman, the 64-year-old former Nasa astronaut with five Space Shuttle missions and more than 20 million miles of space travel under his belt, is to help teach a new generation of physicists...
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University of Salford - BBC signs up to lend a hand
A deal has been struck between the University of Salford and the BBC that will include new joint courses, enterprise training and student placements with the broadcaster. The partnership, the first...
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Lancaster University - Gas guzzlers
A £2.5 million research project into how rainforests control the composition and chemistry of the atmosphere is being led by Lancaster University. The three-year venture, funded by the Natural...