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[24 JAN 02] WARWICK UNI STUDENT AIMS
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University of Warwick student is set to big it up as a DJ
after making it through to the semi-finals of a national DJ
competition. MORE
[08 OCT 01] WARWICK CASH BOOST FOR WORK
WITH BUSINESS
 The
University of Warwick has been awarded £8 million as part of
a £120 million government programme to get UK universities
working with business. MORE
[23 JUL 01]
IMAGING EXPERTS WIN AWARD
 Local
scientific imaging experts, Improvision, have won an award for
their technology transfer work with the University of Warwick.
MORE
[13 MAY 01] WARWICK UNI MOVES AT THE
SPEED OF LIGHT
A new £5 million research centre that
will be at the cutting edge of new technology is to be housed
in Coventry. MORE
[25 APR 01] WARWICK UNI PREDICTS MORE
JOBS AHEAD
A new report from the
University of Warwick predicts continued low unemployment and
up to two million more jobs for the UK by 2010.
MORE
[02 APR 01] HOW FREE IS A COMPREHENSIVE
EDUCATION?
 New
research from the University of Warwick has revealed how much
parents are prepared to pay to move to the catchment areas of
the best state schools.
MORE
[20 MAR 01] COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR
SCHOOLS EXTENDED
A government minister has used a visit
to Coventry to announce the extension of a scheme giving
manufacturing software to schools. MORE
[13 FEB 01] GRADUATES TO CAMPAIGN
AGAINST LAP-TOP IDEA
Warwick University graduates are being
urged to join a campaign against plans to force students to
own their own lap-top computer. MORE
[07 FEB 01] WARWICK PONDERS LAP-TOP
REVOLUTION
Students at the University of Warwick
could be forced to have lap-top computers before being
accepted onto courses. MORE
[02 FEB 01] JOHNNY TO LAUNCH £2.3m
HI-TECH SCHOOL EFFORT
Children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball
will be opening more young minds to the wonders of science in
Coventry next week when he launches a £2.3 million
engineering education programme. MORE
[19 JAN 01] ECONOMICS QUALITY MAKES
WARWICK PERFECT
The University of
Warwick has scored top marks for its teaching yet again
following a visit to the economics department by
inspectors. MORE
[16 JAN 01] FLEXIBLE COURSE TO FAST
TRACK NEW TEACHERS
Teachers can now be
trained in just ten weeks following the launch of a new
flexible course by the University of Warwick. MORE
[20 DEC 00] MOBILE PHONE HEALTH THREAT
REDUCED BY EXPERT
Health fears over
mobile telephones could soon become a thing of the past thanks
to an invention by a professor at the University of
Warwick. MORE
[14 DEC 00] CLINTON LOOKS TO THE
WORLD'S FUTURE
President Clinton took his bow from the
world stage today by addressing an audience at Warwick
University on the challenges facing the world. MORE
[14 DEC 00] TWITS TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT
WARWICK
Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were
visiting Warwick University today, but hundreds of children
were having their fun too. MORE
[12 DEC 00] WATCH CLINTON'S WARWICK
SPEECH ON THE WEB
Bill Clinton’s speech from the
University of Warwick on Thursday will be broadcast on the
internet. MORE
[11 DEC 00] WARWICK UNIVERSITY IN
CLINTON COUP
The President of the United States Bill
Clinton is to visit the University of Warwick on Thursday as
part of his final official visit to the United Kingdom. MORE
[05 DEC 00] NEW DEGREES FOR TALENTED
ENGINEERS
A scheme that allows firms such as
Marconi, BMW and Land Rover to put trainee engineers through a
degree course is to be extended. MORE
[05 DEC 00] SCIENCE MANUFACTURERS PASS
OUT
An international programme run by the
University of Warwick to train some of the top people in
science-based manufacturing has celebrated its first
graduates. MORE
[30 NOV 00] TURNER PRIZE FOUNDER
HONOURED BY WARWICK
The man who founded the Turner Prize and
gave the University of Warwick one of its most famous
sculptures is to be given an honorary doctorate. MORE
[28 NOV 00] WARWICK LAYS FOUNDATION FOR
MORE DEGREES
People who have never had access to
higher education are set to benefit from a new scheme that
will open up universities to them. MORE
[24 NOV 00] RaW TALENT WINS NATIONAL
ACCOLADE
Students from the University of Warwick
will be broadcasting to the nation after the radio station
scooped a hat-trick of awards. MORE
[24 NOV 00] EDUCATION, EDUCATION,
EDUCATION ALL PRAISED
Teachers teaching teachers at the
University of Warwick have been given top marks by government
inspectors for the quality of their work. MORE
[21 NOV 00] CHILDREN 'PREFER PETS TO
ADULTS'
Pets can be more important to children
than their family, according to research by psychologists at
the University of Warwick. MORE
[08 NOV 00] WARWICK APPOINTS NEW
VICE-CHANCELLOR
The University of Warwick has appointed
Professor V David VandeLinde as its next Vice-Chancellor to
replace Sir Brian Follett, who steps down in April. MORE
[01 NOV 00] MORE
CASH FOR FELLOWS AT WARWICK
Warwick University has
launched a £1 million effort to entice the brightest students
in the land to take up PhD study. MORE
[27 OCT 00] NEW
CENTRE TO SOLVE RIDDLE OF MORSE'S KILLER
Author Colin Dexter
will reveal what eventually kills Inspector Morse when he
opens a new centre dedicated to caring for diabetics at the
University of Warwick next month. MORE
[27 OCT 00] WARWICK
LEADS FURTHER EDUCATION REsearch
The University of
Warwick and Tile Hill college in Coventry are to be two of the
partners in the largest ever nationally funded research
project into Further Education. MORE
[12 OCT 00] WARWICK
BEATS IVORY TOWERS DOWN LIST
The University of
Warwick has been ranked the most productive research
university in the country. MORE
[10 OCT 00] £2M
RESEARCH INTO GPS, DENTISTS AND OPTICIANS
A £1.9 million
programme is being launched by the University of Warwick to
look at ways to improve the quality of NHS primary care
services. MORE
[27 SEP 00] CRICKET
TO THE CREASE AT WARWICK CONFERENCE
Cricket-lovers will be
able romp through four centuries in six hours at a unique
conference dedicated to the history of the game at the
University of Warwick. MORE
[20 SEP 00] SUBMARINE
ATTACKER CLEARED OF ONE CHARGE
A former University of
Warwick student has been cleared of a charge of criminal
damage after attacking a submarine, but could still face a
retrial over a second allegation. MORE
[05 SEP 00] FIRMS URGED TO LOOK TO
FUTURE WITH ROBOTS
Businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire
have so far proved immune to the lure of robots, and risk
missing out on an insight into the automated world.
MORE
[08 AUG 00] PROFESSOR SEES WORK HEAD
OFF INTO SPACE
A Warwick university professor is going to watch 10 years
of her work take off into the skies tomorrow. MORE
[29 JUN 00] e-BUSINESS IDEAS TO BE
ALLOWED TO GROW
A new programme to help students develop
e-business plans was today being launched by the government
minister responsible for the electronic revolution.
MORE
[28 JUN 00] UNIVERSITY IN £5m PLASTIC
RESEARCH DEAL
Warwick University has linked up with a
leading plastics company in a £5 million research programme.
MORE
[13 JUN 00] NEW PROGRAMME TO MASTER
E-COMMERCE
A new masters degree programme in
e-commerce is being launched by Warwick University in a $1
million link with industry. MORE
[24 MAY 00] FIRMS READY TO GAIN ON THE
INTERNET
Businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire
can advertise their services for free a when a a special
networking website
for the region is launched this week. MORE
[18 MAY 00] LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ALL
AS JACKIE CELEBRATES
Warwick University will be having a
double celebration of adult learning this weekend.
MORE
[10 MAY 00] ROBOT WARS END AS MACHINES
SEEK LOVE
Unloved robots are moving to Coventry to
try and find someone who will give them a chance of taking a
place on the world stage. MORE
[27 APR 00] WOMAN CHARGED AFTER GREER
HELD
Warwick University professor Germaine
Greer is recovering after allegedly being held against her
will at her home in Essex. MORE
[04 APR 00] WARWICK BUSINESS GRADUATES
IN GREAT DEMAND
- The University of Warwick's status
among employers has risen further, according to a recent
survey. MORE
[28 MAR 00] CW2000
PROJECT OPEN FOR BUSINESS
- A new initiative to allow small and medium sized
businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire exploit the internet
is now signing up members. MORE
[27 MAR 00]
WARWICK GRADUATES ASKED TO DONATE
Rich Warwick graduates are being offered the chance to have
professorial chairs named after them if they support poor
students. MORE
[21 MAR 00] WARWICK
PROFESSOR SLAMS BUDGET
A University of Warwick economics expert has criticised the
Chancellor’s budget as "not very exciting or
interesting". MORE
[16 MAR 00]
WARWICK STUDENTS STAGE FEES PROTEST
Over 400 students occupied the main administrative building
at the University of Warwick yesterday. MORE
[04 FEB 00] LESSONS
TO BE LEARNT FROM MILLENNIUM BUG
Organisations that handled the Millennium Bug well could
use the same sort of strategies to make other wide-ranging
changes happen more smoothly. MORE
[27 JUL 99]
SCIENCE PARK COMPANY OFFERS FAST DIAGNOSES
Micropathology Ltd, one of the latest companies to join the
University of Warwick Science Park, is providing a 24 hour
clinical advice service for medical colleagues on all aspects
of infectious disease. MORE
[30 JUN 99]
WARWICK BUSINESS SCHOOL ANNOUNCES NEW DEAN
Warwick Business School has announced that its new Dean is
to be Professor Howard Thomas, currently Dean of the College
of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. MORE
[24 JUN 99] NEW
MEDICAL SCHOOL, BUT WHERE?
Coventry has won a medical school from the Government but
no one knows where it can be built because of the local
squabbles over where a new super hospital is to be
sited. MORE
[22
JUN 99] MEDICAL
SCHOOL FOR WARWICK UNIVERSITY
Healthcare in Coventry and Warwickshire has been given a
massive boost today after the announcement that Warwick
University will be the site for a major new medical
school. MORE
[18 JUN 99]
NEW
EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES DEGREE
Tile Hill College are delighted to announce the launch of a
BA Degree in Early Childhood Studies. MORE
[10 JUN 99] RESEARCH
TEAM TACKLES 5000 ROYAL BOOKS
We are all familiar with the
mountains of commemorative literature and merchandise that
seem to mark Royal events today from weddings to funerals, but
this is by no means a new idea. MORE
[09 JUN 99] SCHEME
FOR CHILDREN TO DESIGN THE FUTURE
Senior figures from schools,
business and higher education, will gather at Warwick
Manufacturing Group, at the University of Warwick, on Monday
14 June to launch a scheme to equip schoolchildren to be the
design engineers of the future. MORE
[03 JUN 99] DOUBLE
TERRY PRATCHETT WEEK AT WARWICK UNI
Immensely popular UK top ten
selling author Terry Pratchett is going to be seeing a lot of
the University of Warwick in the next few weeks. MORE
[25 MAY 99] NEW
RESEARCH INTO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
Digital technology is driving
terrestrial, satellite, cable TV and the Internet to converge
- but new research published this month suggests we should be
paying more attention to attempts by governments and
regulators in Britain, Europe and the US to cope with this
convergence. MORE
[13 MAY 99] NEW
RESEARCH ON CREATIVE ACCOUNTING
Creative accounting was one of
the key themes in corporate finance and corporate governance
in the 1980s. Controlling it is a key issue today. New
research published this week explores how successful attempts
to regulate creative accounting have been and how companies
can still resist the regulation. MORE
[12 MAY 99] REPORT
INTO THE LOCATION OF POWER STATIONS
False incentives generated by
the the regulatory regime for the UK gas and electricity
industries have caused many gas-fired power stations built in
the 1990s to be located in socially undesirable
locations. MORE
[27 APR 99] ACORN
AWARD FOR CONFERENCE MANAGER
Wendy Roberts, Accommodation
Services Manager at the University of Warwick, has been named
as one of the UK's 30 top leaders aged under 30 in the
hospitality and conference industry. MORE
[23 APR 99] UNI
HOSTS COMPETITION FOR CONFERENCE CHEFS
The cream of the UK's
conference centre chefs came to the University of Warwick at
the weekend in the first ever competition to find the UK's
best conference centre chef. The event organised by Conference
Centres of Excellence a consortium 24 of the UK's leading
independent conference centres, was won by Lee Gaskins, Sous
Chef, Woodside Conference Centre, in Kenilworth. MORE
[22 APR 99] RESEARCHERS
BEAT CERAMIC FIBRE HEALTH RISK
Researchers at the Warwick
Process Technology Group have devised a manufacturing
technique for spun-fibre based ceramics that allows
manufacturers to produce high tech ceramic fibres without the
creation of very small diameter fibres that can be a health
risk. Fine ceramic fibres have been about for many years. They
are used because fineness is a desirable property in a range
of applications. MORE
[16 APR 99] UNIVERSITIES
WIN £3 MILLION
A proposal from the
universities of Birmingham and Warwick has been awarded £3
million under the government's "University
Challenge" initiative. The money will be used to set up a
fund to invest in new high-technology companies that use
research developments from the region's universities. MORE
[08 APR 99] WARWICK
UNI AWARDS 14 HONORARY DEGREES
The University of Warwick has
announced the names of those to be awarded honorary degrees at
its Summer degree congregations from 13-16th July and its
Winter degree congregations in January 2000. Included in the
list are best selling author Terry Pratchett OBE, Royal
Shakespeare Company actor Alex Jennings and Jaguar's current
Chairman and Chief Executive Nicholas (Nick) Scheele.
MORE
[31 MAR 99] PRATCHETT
TO RECEIVE HONOURARY DEGREE
The University of Warwick has
announced today that best selling author Terry Pratchett is to
be awarded an honorary degree An Honorary Doctor of Letters
(Hon DLitt) at one of its Summer degree congregations on 14th
July 1999. Terry Pratchett's first career was as a
journalist. MORE
[29 MAR 99] PROFESSOR
FEARS FOR PART TIME STUDENTS
In his address to the
Association of University Administrators annual conference, on
Monday 29 March, the UK's First Professor of Life Long
Learning, will praise the Government's commitment to Life Long
Learning. MORE
[25 MAR 99] UNI
STAFF ESCAPE DEATH PRANK
Three members of staff at the
University of Warwick escaped serious damage to their health
when a prankster added cleaning fluid to milk in a
refrigerator. MORE
[25 MAR 99] STUDENTS
BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL IN UNI LIBRARY
Students at the University of
Warwick are almost literally burning the midnight oil, they
have persuaded the University to keep its library open for
reference and private study from 9.30pm to midnight each
weekday night during term. MORE
[23 MAR 99] £1.6
MILLION SCHEME FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
The European Regional
Development Fund has just announced that they are to fund a
new £1.6 million scheme designed to help small Coventry and
Warwickshire companies who wish to access the research skills
of staff and students at the University of Warwick. MORE
[22 MAR 99] UV
LIGHT MAKES 'IMPOSSIBLE' SHAPES
Researchers at the Warwick
Manufacturing Group, part of the University of Warwick, have
developed a way of creating composite materials with shapes
that have previously been impossible. The research enables
materials reinforced with glass fibre to find new uses in cars
and construction - it could even pave the way for making
composites in space. MORE
[12 MAR 99] WARWICK
BIDS FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL
The University of Warwick has
put in a bid to be the provider of 1,000 new doctors, which
the Government says are urgently needed. A university
spokesman said: "We have submitted a 200 page document
detailing our case and we feel we have a very good chance of
being selected." MORE
[12 MAR 99] UNIVERSITIES
WIN £3MILLION
A proposal from the
universities of Birmingham and Warwick has been awarded £3
million under the government's "University
Challenge" initiative. The money will be used to set up a
fund to invest in new high-technology companies that use
research developments from the region's
universities. MORE
[08 MAR 99] NEW
RESEARCH INTO JOB SATISFACTION
Most UK workers are remarkably
satisfied with their jobs (particularly so if they are a 55
year old woman in a small company) according to new research
by Professor Andrew Oswald and Mr Jonathan Gardner of the
Economics Department at the University of Warwick.
MORE
[16 FEB 99] CHILDREN
LEFT IN THE DARK IN CARE PROCEEDINGS
A new report published today
raises serious concerns about the extent to which children in
care proceedings are kept in the dark about the legal
processes happening around them. The research by the
University of Warwick's School of Law and The National Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is published
today in a book entitled Out of Hearing: Representing Children
in Care Proceedings. MORE
[04 FEB 99] PET
OWNERS MAY BE HEALTHIER
Recent research has shown that
people with pets have lowers risk factors for cardiovascular
disease, lower incidence of minor ailments and better
psychological well being. But now the question for experts is
does owning a pet actually cause pet owners to be more
healthy? MORE
[02 FEB 99] RESEARCHERS
TACKLE SLEEP DISORDER
Using sophisticated analysis of
heart rate information, researchers at the University of
Warwick have devised a way to diagnose sleep disorders that
replaces the detailed and expensive medical investigations
currently used. MORE
[28 JAN 99] ALMOST
PERFECT RESULTS FOR UNI DEPARTMENT
The University of Warwick's
Biological Sciences Department has received an almost perfect
score, from a national inspection team, for the quality of its
teaching. The department scored 23 points out of a possible
maximum of 24. MORE
[22 JAN 99] INCREASE
IN NUMBER APPLYING TO WARWICK UNI
Early figures for the number of
students applying to UK Universities show that the University
of Warwick has seen a 12% increase in the number of students
applying to study at the University. In fact, the university
has achieved the second highest increase in application
numbers of all 101 UK universities. MORE
[18 JAN 99] PGCE
TEACHING INFORMATION DAY AT WARWICK UNI
Anyone looking for a change of
career to a more challenging job will take great interest in
the fact that there is still a national shortage of well
qualified secondary teachers in Maths, Religious Education,
Science, Information Technology, and even in Modem
Languages. MORE
[07 JAN 99] SOUTH
AFRICA AND UNI PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED
The Prime Minister, the Rt.
Hon. Tony Blair MP announced today in Johannesburg the start
of a new partnership between Warwick University and two South
African Provincial Governments creating two new International
Competitiveness Centres in South Africa's Northern Province,
and KwaZulu-Natal. MORE
[18 DEC 98] NEW
LASER TECHNIQUE FOR BONDING PLASTICS
Any manufacturer trying to
confidently stick two pieces of polypropylene type materials
together is usually faced with using environmentally
unfriendly pre-treatments. Some of these pre-treatments are
chemical, others heat based, but all waste time and cost
money. MORE
[17 DEC 98] TOO
MUCH AIR STICKS PRECIOUS CARBON TOGETHER
Ever since researchers
discovered a form of carbon consisting of a class of
miniature, football-like structures known as fullerenes, they
have been racing to use the unique structures in all kinds of
novel ways from drug delivery to nanotechnology. MORE
[14 DEC 98] PRIME
MINISTER WELCOMES NEW KNOWLEDGE PARTNERSHIP
The Prime Minister has today
personally welcomed the formation of a "New Knowledge
Partnership" between GEC and the Warwick Manufacturing
Group at the University of Warwick. The Prime Minster's full
statement is attached. MORE
[07 DEC 98] BETTY
PATTISON TO RECEIVE HONOURARY DEGREE
Coventry dance instructor Betty
Pattison and BMW Chairman Herr Bernd Pischetsrieder (Hon DSc)
will be just two of the five people to receive honorary
degrees from the University of Warwick at its two winter
degree ceremonies to be held in the University's Butterworth
Hall on 15 January 1999. MORE
[26 NOV 98] PROFESSOR
WINS SMALL BUSINESS RESEARCH AWARD
On Tuesday 1 December Professor
David Storey, Director of The Centre for Small and
Medium Sized Enterprises at Warwick Business School, will
receive a $50,000 award which has never before been won by
anyone outside the US and which is seen as the equivalent of
the Nobel prize for small business. MORE
[16 NOV 98] WHY
DO MOST FIRMS DIE YOUNG
New research from Warwick
Business School exploring why so many small businesses die
young could provide the first detailed "early warning
system" for failure that is particularly tailored to the
operations of small businesses. MORE
[10 NOV 98] ASTROPHYSICS
USE VR TO CHASE EARTH'S TAIL
Astrophysicists at the
University of Warwick are using a 3D virtual reality system to
research the Earth's electromagnetic tail. MORE
[09 NOV 98] SUNDAY
TIMES RANKS WARWICK UNI IN TOP TEN
Another national newspaper has
ranked Warwick among the top ten UK universities. This is the
third national newspaper to do so in the last six months (the
others being The Times and the Financial Times). Yesterday's
Sunday Times ranked Warwick 7th overall, and also ranked it
6th in the UK for research. MORE
[05 NOV 98] RESEARCHERS
TURN EXECUTIVE TOY INTO HI-TECH ENGINEERING TOOL
Researchers at the Warwick
Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick have
transformed an executive "pin art" toy that sat on
many managers desks into a hi-tech industrial moulding tool
that those same managers can now use to create new
products. MORE
[05 NOV 98] COVENTRY
WOMAN WRITES BOOK ON ANCIENT ROMAN GARDENS
Coventry born woman Linda
Farrar has produced the definitive book on the world's ancient
Roman gardens. MORE
[05 NOV 98] WHERE
THERE'S MUCK THERE IS DNA BRASS
[02 NOV 98] SOMALI
WARLORDS PROVIDE MODEL FOR BUSINESSES
[12 OCT 98] WARWICK
UNI OPENS NEW SPORTS PAVILION
[08 OCT 98] WARWICK
MAKES SPACE AGE GLOVES FOR SEAMAN
[06 JUL 98] MARTIN
BELL TO MP TO LAUNCH NEW MINE CLEARING MACHINE
[18 MAY 98] INTERNATIONAL
EVENT TO SUPPORT LITERATURE
[30 APR 98] COVENTRY
MATURE STUDENTS FIND THAT 2+2 = 500
[27 APR 98] DEVICENET
TECHNOLOGY SET TO REVOLUTIONISE MANUFACTURING
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