Liz Cass
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Resolving healthcare challenges through interprofessional education in Indonesia
December 18, 2018
The University of Nottingham has shared expertise in interprofessional education and collaborative working at a high profile healthcare event in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Department for International Trade at the British Embassy and Indonesian Young Health Professionals’ Society, with support from Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education and Ministry of Health worked in collaboration to …
Indonesian Audit Board and Ministry hails UK-Indonesia academic partnership
December 3, 2018
The University welcomed a delegation from the Indonesian Audit Board and the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (RISTEKDIKTI) earlier this month. The visit, led by Mr Achsanul Qosasi, Auditor General of the Audit Board in Indonesia and accompanied by Mr Agus Susilohadi, Deputy Director of Planning and Budgeting for Directorate General of Resources, …
Making the Headlines Review
November 28, 2018
Tools, hints and tips from a conference to help staff engage and use the media to raise the profile of their work have now been shared. On Thursday 22 November more than 150 members of staff joined the Media Relations team and external guests at Nottingham Lakeside Arts for Making the Headlines. The event had …
East Midlands Universities Officers’ Training Corps Remember
November 12, 2018
The impact of the First World War on University College, Nottingham, was profound. By its very nature, an institution concerned with higher education was likely to have a large number of young men on its books, both as students and staff, in the appropriate age range to join the armed forces. In addition, the formation …
University honours inspirational local volunteers
October 26, 2018
The University of Nottingham has recognised the outstanding voluntary efforts of a number of local alumni and residents at its annual Supporter Reception. From increasing awareness about the impacts of slavery at local heritage sites to raising thousands of pounds for the University’s breast cancer research programme, the activities the volunteers support are wide-ranging. Over …
Making a difference to adult education
October 24, 2018
As the Civic University Commission publishes its first progress report which focusses on the civic purpose of universities in providing adult education, we explore the experiences of two of our mature students. Tracy Young is 44 and lives in Arnold, Nottingham. She is in her final year of a Midwifery degree. She was inspired to …
Memorial event at University Park
October 17, 2018
A minute’s silence was held across University Park at 11am on Friday November 9 in memory of those who have died in war. East Midlands Officers’ Training Corps (OTC) led the Act of Remembrance from about 10.45am with a wreath laying in the Trent Building at University Park. This year was particularly significant as it …
Nottingham in the War: A conscientious objector
Robert Acheson Sheldon is the only known conscientious objector among the staff of the University College’s during the First World War. Aged 36 he was living in Arboretum Street and working as a lecturer in Electrical Engineering in Nottingham when conscription was introduced in 1916. Being ‘of age’ Sheldon was required to join the army …
Nottingham in the War: Registrar to Registrar
Registrar Dr Paul Greatrix pays tribute to Thomas Porteous Black, Registrar of University College Nottingham in 1911, the most senior figure to be killed in World War I. There have been only nine Registrars of the University of Nottingham since its founding as University College Nottingham back in 1881. The most remarkable of all of …
Nottingham in the War: A tribute to Dr Thomas Black
In the summer of 1915 the Registrar of the University College, later to become the University of Nottingham, died in battle. He was one of at least 23 members of staff from the College to see frontline military action as part of the First World War and the most senior to be killed. As part …
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