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CEER Report on University Admissions
The Green Paper proposes to double the entry rate of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and raise the number of black and minority ethnic students by 20 per cent by 2020.…
Press release: Margaret Thatcher Centre to be Sited at University Of Buckingham
3 November 2015 The University of Buckingham, which had long and close ties with Lady Thatcher, is to house a library and museum devoted to the life and ideals of…
CEER detects damaging HEFCE blunder
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has made a crucial error in its latest report on degree outcomes (2015/21). It said that 82 per cent of graduates getting firsts…
Publication of the week: Dr Julian Richards
Richards, J., “The Rise of Far-Right Extremism in Contemporary Great Britain and Continental Europe”, Concordia Discors (Russia) 3/26 (2015), 166-175 A number of Far Right and “radical right” parties have…
Press release: Stone Age “eco” home found at Stonehenge dig
The ground-breaking discovery of a Stone Age “eco” home – the oldest sign of settlement yet found in the Stonehenge landscape – could be under threat if controversial Government-backed plans…
Stone Age “eco” home found at Stonehenge dig
The ground-breaking discovery of a Stone Age “eco” home – the oldest sign of settlement yet found in the Stonehenge landscape – could be under threat if controversial Government-backed plans…
Work-in-Progress Seminars in Applied Computing Department, Autumn 2015
The Work in Progress Seminars continue this term with the following 4 seminars. Week Date Speaker Title Friday (week 5) 30 October Alan Abdulla Exploiting Similarities between Secret and Cover…
In the news – 27 October & 3 November 2015
Professor Anthony Glees was quoted in an article in The Independent (25 November): “Syria crisis: Terror groups being funded by car thefts and scams in the UK”. To read this…
62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (April 2016)
Dr Adriano Aymonino will give a paper at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016): “From practice to theory: the role of…
Paper by Adriano Aymonino at Georgian Group symposium
Dr Adriano Aymonino spoke at the Georgian Group’s symposium on Robert Adam and His Brothers (23-24 September 2015). His paper was entitled “Robert Adam and the birth of the ‘true…