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- Our Undergraduate Open Days offer you the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current undergraduates and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham.
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- Tuesday 26th February 2013
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- The College of Social Sciences is proud of its extensive links with universities and other strategic partners throughout the world. Through our network of global partnerships, we engage in a wide range of activities including staff and student exchange and collaboration in research and teaching.
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- Thursday 21st February 2013
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- All delegations stayed in the same hotel, so were advised to remain "in-role" throughout the conference. And we found ourselves becoming embroiled in fascinating debates over meals and drinks with some very capable students from universities across America, Canada and Europe. It became evident to me that diplomacy requires a constant engagement in and consideration for major world issues, and that productive discussion can occur anywhere, from the formal debates in the conference, to the less formal encounters in lifts and at the bar!
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- Wednesday 20th February 2013
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- The general aura that surrounded the ongoing debates in the Defense Planning Group was indescribable. While certain delegates were returning to their 2nd/3rd Model NATO conference, others (such as Felix and I) were experiencing our very first. It was an absolute honour to be part of such an invaluable event and to be able to learn from such a diverse variety of students.
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- Wednesday 20th February 2013
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- This exciting degree programme is offered exclusively through the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security (ICCS), comprised of a number of leading scholars in the field of security who regularly produce cutting edge, internationally renowned research.
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- Monday 18th February 2013
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- Dr Tim Haughton Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham talks about Europe's role in the world.
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- Tuesday 12th February 2013
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- To celebrate CREES's 50th anniversary, over the course of the year we will be highlighting 50 faces of distingushed individuals who have contributed to CREES's past and present...
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- Tuesday 5th February 2013
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- Dr Deema Kaneff was invited to present a paper at a conference at CERI-Sciences Po, Paris on the 23rd January 2012.
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- Monday 4th February 2013
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- To celebrate CREES's 50th anniversary, over the course of the year we will be highlighting 50 faces of distingushed individuals who have contributed to CREES's past and present... I entered CREES as a postgraduate student in 1964, quite soon after it had been founded. At that time, Bob Davies was building the Centre up into the intellectual powerhouse it was to become, and the resources still flowing from its special Hayter status were abundant. Looking back, it seems like a golden age.
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- Monday 4th February 2013
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- During the internship Ayesha's role was to create factsheets that would enable head office and the branch managers to better understand the characteristics of the small businesses that they lend to. She analysed data from the client applications as well as their stock information and loan data.
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- Friday 1st February 2013