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Last Orders Please – The SU Bar/Cafe to Close In January
by Kevin Lawson Yesterday SU staff were told that the Bar and Cafe run in the Students Union building would close in January as part of the move to the new building. The news finally confirms the rumours that been circling ever since the new £22.5 million Learning Leisure Centre was announced. Whilst the initial press…
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Uni Registry wins top award
THE University of Huddersfield’s Registry Team – responsible for assuring the quality of all courses and overseeing rules and regulations – has been voted the nation’s best at the 2013 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards. One of the achievements that earned the award was a new system leading to dramatic falls in student problems…
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Education goes green: 25 universities receive HEFCE sustainability funding
The National Union of Students (NUS) today announced details of a ground breaking Students’ Green Fund, worth £5 million and involving sustainability projects from 25 universities across the country. Diverse projects such as the sustainable food focus of ‘Sheffield on a plate’, to the community focused ‘Guerrilla Gardeners’ in Newcastle, to Staffordshire’s ‘Green Pad’ on…
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Duke of York becomes Patron of the University
Good news! His Royal Highness The Duke of York, KG, has agreed to become Patron of our University. We share a commitment with His Royal Highness to boost the UK economy via entrepreneurship and enterprise. The Duke of York has been a regular visitor here and in May 2013 he was on campus to officially…
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Fourth Queen’s Nurse for Uni
HEALTH visitors are to set play an increasingly important role and University of Huddersfield lecturer Karen Adams aims to make sure that her appointment as a Queen’s Nurse will help to boost awareness of the profession and its contribution to the health and well-being of families and communities in Britain. A health visitor by background,…
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University of Huddersfield in multi-million euro HARCO Project
MACHINE tools and manufacturing machinery are set to be revolutionised – achieving much greater levels of accuracy with the fitting of highly-affordable smart components – after a multi-million Euro research project in which University of Huddersfield experts played a key role. Named HARCO (Hierarchical and Adaptive Smart Components for precision production systems application), the three-year…