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Veterans who leave service due to injuries or physical conditions face inconsistent support

School of Health and Society

New research has shed light on the inconsistent experiences of personnel who leave the military due to a physical injury or condition acquired in service.

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New partnership aims to transform town

º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Business School

A new partnership agreement between the º£½ÇÂÒÂ× and Leigh Means Business aims to boost support in the Lancashire town.

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Supercharge higher technical education to kickstart a skills revolution, says new report

University Campus

A new report has found that higher technical education is in decline in the UK and that the government should take immediate steps to reverse this trend in order to meet its levelling up ambitions.

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Musk buys Twitter: Science fiction meets reality

º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Business School

Dr Gordon Fletcher, technology and retail expert at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Business School comments as Elon Musk buys Twitter.

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Student Networking Day success at Royal Television Society North West

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

The Royal Television Society North West Student Networking Day was held on 30 March at Dock10, MediaCityUK and was supported by the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×’s School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology.

Seated panel on a stage at Royal Television Society North West
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The º£½ÇÂÒÂ× names Lucy Meacock as next Chancellor

University Campus

She has been a familiar face in the living rooms of households across the North West for decades and now award-winning Granada Reports presenter Lucy Meacock is set to become the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×’s seventh Chancellor.

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º£½ÇÂÒÂ× students meet with US Embassy as they ‘Invent to Protect’

School of Health and Society

Four students from the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×’s Professional Policing degree met with representatives from the US Embassy as part of ‘Invent2Protect: Countering Hate & Intolerance’ – a programme designed to counter extremism, hate and violence.

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Coles-Medlock Foundation pledges further support for Centre for Doctoral Training

School of Health and Society

The Coles-Medlock Foundation has pledged to fund the inaugural Professorial Chair for the º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Prosthetics and Orthotics.

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Enhancing music listening for those with hearing loss: º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Acoustics collaborating on new £1.6 million grant

School of Science, Engineering and Environment

How can we process and remix music so it sounds best for those with a hearing loss? The new Cadenza project aims to better define what music personalised for someone with a hearing loss should sound like and exploit the latest in machine learning to...

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Fine Art Student nominated for Freelands Painting Prize

School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

A Fine Art student has been nominated for the Freelands Painting Prize 2022.

Rhiana Hibbert Fine Art
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