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Warwick Uni receives £1 million donation

Professor Lord Bhattacharyya has donated £1 million to the University of Warwick. His donation will be given out over a five year period and will be used to “support the stimulation and facilitation of research of the highest quality” and provide an annual reward for a Warwick researcher who has...
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Posted Mar. 2, 2010

Warwick-Birmingham partnership to increase employment chances

Birmingham and Warwick Universities are working together to offer 60 graduates from the West Midlands a head start in the job market. Warwick and Birmingham have been given £96,000 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to set up work experience opportunities in a wide range of local...
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Posted Mar. 2, 2010

Queen’s Anniversary Prize awarded to WMG

The Queen has formally presented WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday 19th February. The award was presented to WMG Director Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick and Mr...
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Posted Mar. 2, 2010

Bisous Baby

Every week, Caitlin Allen brings you the good, the bad, and the ugly from the life of a War wick stu dent abroad. Bisous!
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Posted Mar. 2, 2010

Letters: Lessons from Warwick’s history

Dear Sir, February sees the 40th anniversary of the Warwick Files Affair, an episode in the student militancy of the 1960s which still resonates. The expansion of university education following the Robbins Report and the baby boom post 1945 created new universities. But whether expansion would be intellectually productive or...
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Posted Mar. 2, 2010

Letters: Rap as music

Dear Sir, I think Caitlin Allen must have spent too much time in France to think that Notorious B.I.G.’s “raps mean nothing at all.” The man, may he rest in peace, was one of the greatest story tellers of our time. From Juicy I quote: > We used to fuss...
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Posted Mar. 2, 2010

Letters: On-campus takeaway

Dear Sir, Further to my article last week (‘I went out in the Union last night, and got absolutely Battered’; Feb 16th), I am happy to note that there has been some positive developments towards the return of a take away for the student union. Welfare and Communications Officers Sami...
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Posted Mar. 2, 2010

“Just Coming, Darling”

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, makes a surprise visit to the Economic Summit, amongst a fever-pitch morning here on campus
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Posted Feb. 20, 2010