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My Guide to starting your own business -Part 11 Starting Up

Written by: R L (Bob) Hall (BSc, PhD; University of Nottingham) Owner and MD of Top and Jeffries Limited; Co – owner & Chairman of Fuel Additive Science Technologies Limited, Shropshire, UK There is no doubt the power of a strong brand to create additional margin and profits across a broad cross section of products …

May Fest 2014 – Our most popular alumni event

Last Saturday saw the annual May Fest celebrations take place across the University Park campus. With a jam packed programme of events there was surely something for everyone. The event is an opportunity for the University to open its doors to the local community and alumni,  to showcase what we do and promote higher education. …

International round-up, the story so far…

Written by Hannah Curnock, International Alumni Manager (Russian and Slavonic Studies, 2004) 2014 has been a busy year to date with six alumni events already in the bag and another two coming up. We’ve been in Bangkok, Delhi, Bangladesh, New York, Saudi and Shanghai and here’s a flavour of what we’ve been doing: In February …

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My Guide to starting your own business – Part 10

Support Written by: R L (Bob) Hall (BSc, PhD; University of Nottingham) Owner and MD of Top and Jeffries Limited; Co – owner & Chairman of Fuel Additive Science Technologies Limited, Shropshire, UK Business support professionals such as accountants and lawyers are critical to support a business of any size including start-ups. They can only …

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My time at Nottingham

By Zoe Ashton (BA Hons English Language and Literature, 2013) As a child, I came to University Park campus with my Grandma, who lived in Beeston, and feed the squirrels. After spending three years at the same campus in a more academic fashion, studying English, my love for the green campus didn’t dwindle. Right up …

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Think for the Future

First year student and managing Director of Think for the Future, Oliver Bream McIntosh tells us how his project is benefitting from funding from alumni and friends of The University of Nottingham through the Cascade fund. Tell us a bit about the Think for the Future project and how this came about? The project has …

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Falling in love at Nottingham…

As we celebrate Valentine’s day today, I got to thinking about the  couples who found love while studying here. As well as gaining a world class degree many also found their partners for life…. Like Pat and Dickie Bond from Devon who met at the University ‘hop’ in Christmas 1954. They were never an item …

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Why did you choose The University of Nottingham?

Cast your minds back to when you were applying to University, what were the main factors which affected your decisions? Why did you choose to come to Nottingham? Making the decision to continue onto further education is arguably more complicated than ever before, with a multitude of factors playing a role in which institutions to …

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Alumni celebrate at Varsity Ice Hockey

Written by Tom Barnes (International Security and Terrorism 2013) Monday 27th January saw the opening event of the 10th annual varsity series between the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent. Whilst other university rivalries include boat races along the Thames and rugby union at Twickenham, Nottingham’s offering is a high octane and brutal clash at …

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A new alumni network in Romania

The inaugural meeting of Nottingham’s new Romanian alumni network was held at a restaurant in Bucharest on 18th December 2013. A group of enthusiastic Nottingham alumni, now living and working in Romania or still based in the UK but returning home for Christmas, enjoyed an informal dinner and shared their experiences and good memories of the …

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