University of Aberdeen - Artefacts opened up online
A project to open up Scotland's important museum collections to an international online audience has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. Scottish universities hold more than 1.8 million...
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Heriot-Watt University - Snow excuse for falling behind
A Scottish university's online-study programme has helped snowed-in residents of Highland villages to continue studying for their Higher and Advanced Higher examinations. Heriot-Watt University's...
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Queen Mary, University of London - The Woolworths triangle
The locations of the now-defunct Woolworths chain of stores have been found to form "precise geometric patterns" by a researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. Matt Parker, of the School of...
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Queen's University Belfast - Time to care
A part-time social work degree is to be introduced at Queen's University Belfast. The five-year bachelor of social work will see students attend classes for two and a half days a week. "People with...
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Institute of Education - Bring the noise
Parents can rest easy - the thumping music coming from their children's bedrooms does not impede their ability to study, research at the Institute of Education, University of London has found. From...
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King's College London - New way to the heart
An MRI scan has been successfully used in place of X-ray imaging in an operation to widen a heart valve. The technique involves using a new fibreglass guide wire to direct a catheter through a blood...
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Royal Holloway/Lancaster - Driven to distraction
The potential dangers of "sat-navs" are being studied by a team of psychologists at Royal Holloway, University of London and spatial scientists at Lancaster University. Although the use of mobile...
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Kent/Ghent - Rhyming couple get closer
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the universities of Kent and Ghent. Julia Goodfellow, Kent's vice-chancellor, signed the deal during a visit to the Belgian university to bolster...
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The Open University - Matter of birth and life
A new distance-learning programme for Ethiopia's 31,000 rural community health workers has been awarded $4 million (£2.4 million) by the United Nations Children's Fund. A cohort of 1,000 community...
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University of Wolverhampton - Survivor's hidden childhood
A concentration camp survivor who was hidden by friends close to Anne Frank's house was due to give the University of Wolverhampton's annual Holocaust lecture this week. Martin Stern was set to give...
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University of Leeds - Junk reigns in the lunch box
British children eat 5.5 billion packed lunches a year, but research from the University of Leeds shows that only 1 per cent of their lunch boxes are suitably nutritional. The study, commissioned by...
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University of Bolton - Changing the narrative
A programme at the University of Bolton aims to have an impact on the statistic that 75 per cent of children in state care leave school with no qualifications - and less than one in 100 go on to...
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Stay frosty
The recent cold snap saw the burden of lectures, essay marking and research impact proposals fleetingly forgotten for the delights of snowmen, snow angels and snowball fights. Although the sub-zero...
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Odds and quads
This is one of the few complete skeletons of Megaloceros giganteus, the largest member of the deer family known to science.Though sometimes called an "Irish elk", the animal ranged across Europe and...
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Plymouth's 'enterprising' spirit is called into question
Businessman complains to ASA over 'misleading' brand slogan. Hannah Fearn reports