Anglia Ruskin University - Ticket to Bollywood
A team of Anglia Ruskin academics has travelled to India to pair up with animation training company Frameboxx. The organisation, which trains animators based in India for the work required by...
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University of Northampton - Family values pay dividends
Students whose parents are staff at the University of Northampton will receive £250 a year if they join the university as undergraduates in the next academic year. Registrar Jane Bunce said the...
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University of East Anglia - Paris match for South Seas art
An exhibition of Polynesian art, first shown as part of a University of East Anglia research programme, is to be recreated in Paris. The project, run by Steven Hooper at UEA, aimed to investigate the...
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Scottish Agricultural College - Formal status conferred
Formal status as a designated higher education institute, financed by the Scottish Funding Council, has been attained by the Scottish Agricultural College. The SAC was the last remaining "central...
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University of Warwick - Licence for hybrid embryos
A third British university has been granted a licence to work on human-animal hybrid embryos for research. The licence, granted to the University of Warwick by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
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Nottingham Trent University - Noted pen friend remembered
About 700 personal letters by the American poet and short-story writer Laura (Riding) Jackson have been donated to Nottingham Trent University. The donation was made by a research fellow at the...
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University of Teesside - Reclaiming British steel's history
A £1.6 million project to explore, conserve and catalogue more than 600 feet of material relating to the steel industry in the Teesside area, between the University of Teesside and Teesside Archives...
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University of Sunderland - They say it's champion, pet
A new map of the North East of England reveals a host of hitherto unrecorded boundaries that will variously be hailed as "ace", "champion", "choz", "cushty", "daza" or "mint". Michael Pearce of the...
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University of Stirling - Charter plans draw union's fire
A Scottish university is pressing ahead with plans that the University and College Union Scotland fears could undermine academics' employment rights. The University of Stirling court has agreed to...
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Queen's University Belfast - Geoscience's greatest hits
Two papers from Queen's University Belfast have been declared "current classics" by Thomson Scientific, which says that they are among the most referenced in the world by geoscientists. Twenty-five...
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Aberystwyth University - Bringing beetles to the party
Predicting the spread of the mountain pine beetle, currently devastating the lodgepole pine forests of British Columbia, is like watching party guests, according to an ecology expert. Javier Gamarra...
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King's College London - Lions on the catwalk
Students at King's College London will don "designer" dress at their graduation ceremonies this summer after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was recruited to design the college's academic attire....
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Two-year graduate visa gives UK prestige a fillip abroad
The prospect of sought-after jobs in the UK will create an influx of students, says John Gill
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UK urged to consider ߣߣÊÓƵn fees model
The UK should look to the student tuition fee system in ߣߣÊÓƵ as it decides whether the level of fees currently charged should be increased, ߣߣÊÓƵ's new Minister for Education and Deputy...
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New law raises creationism fears
Louisiana academics oppose Bill that could allow teaching of 'intelligent design'. John Gill reports