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The University of Birmingham welcomes new KPMG class

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Birmingham Business School welcomes a new cohort of accountancy students this term as part of a prestigious partnership with KPMG's ground-breaking school leavers' programme. This offers a complete package of University degree, professional accountancy qualification and relevant work experience.
Date:
Wednesday 3rd October 2012
Categories:
Social Sciences, Students

University of Birmingham sees impressive league table rise

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The University of Birmingham has been shortlisted as University of the Year in The Sunday Times University Guide 2013 and ranked at 13th overall in the UK, a rise of 12 places
Date:
Friday 28th September 2012
Categories:
Alumni, Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund Launched

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Two leading Midlands universities, the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham, are building on their recent landmark collaboration by launching a £400,000 fund to support new joint projects. The money will help to deliver new scientific breakthroughs and innovations as well as supporting a range of other initiatives, such as developing new approaches to teaching at the two universities.
Date:
Thursday 27th September 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

Adrift in a foreign land: major study highlights failings when older people are transferred between health and social care services

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A major study of the experiences of older people moving between health and care services published today highlights significant problems in the quality of the service they received.
Date:
Thursday 20th September 2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Research grants success at Birmingham: Awards up by 55%

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The University of Birmingham's research awards have risen from £93 million in 2010/11 to £145 million this year, a jump of over 55%.
Date:
Thursday 16th August 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Vice Chancellor

Today's leading sporting nations draw heavily on the former East German model

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Most successful modern sporting nations exhibit key characteristics of the system that allowed East Germany to rack up a string of sporting successes from the late 1960s up until the Seoul Olympics of 1988, a year before the state's demise.
Date:
Friday 27th July 2012
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

University of Birmingham welcomes South Korean Ambassador

University of Birmingham welcomes South Korean Ambassador
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The University of Birmingham hosts Choo Kyu-Ho, the Republic of Korea's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, this week at its Edgbaston campus.
Date:
Wednesday 18th July 2012
Categories:
International, Social Sciences, Students, Vice Chancellor

Government backs University of Birmingham plans to open secondary school and sixth form

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The University of Birmingham is delighted that the Government has approved its pioneering plans to found the University of Birmingham School and Sixth Form. This initiative enables the University to extend its excellent academic education to 11-18 year olds in Birmingham and continue to provide outstanding teacher training to the next generation of inspiring teachers. This will be the UK's first University Training school outside London and one of the first university proposals approved by the Department for Education.
Date:
Friday 13th July 2012
Categories:
Social Sciences, Teaching
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