University of Huddersfield
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Huddersfield announced as University of the Year
HUDDERSFIELD has been declared University of the Year by one of the UK’s leading publications. The announcement was made during a ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, venue for the 2013 Times Higher Education Awards. “This is the most fantastic honour!” said a delighted Professor Bob Cryan, theUniversity of Huddersfield’s Vice-Chancellor, who accepted the award in person. “It is a tribute to all the staff who have worked so hard to get us where we are today. …
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Undergraduate Support to be cut
With students already struggling to face the prospect of anything up to £53,000 debt at the end of their degree, the news of George Osborne cutting the undergraduate support budget by £150 million won’t be taken lightly. This means axing the National Scholarship Programme – but it doesn’t stop there! The way the NSP works…
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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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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…