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Dr Louise Denne, Senior Research Fellow at ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ University’s Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) and Professor Jeremy Dale from ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Medical School have each been awarded one of 12 new research grants from the National Institute for Health Research () for their social care projects.

One of Hong Kong’s top entrepreneurs, Professor Roy Chung, has received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ UK – his alma mater, and an institution with which he has forged many significant links throughout his career.

The University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ will be able to bring its successful education programme, ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ in Africa, to Kenya for the first time thanks to the support of the COSARAF Foundation.

EUTOPIA, an established alliance of six European universities that exists to create a connected and inclusive community addressing global and local challenges, has been successful in its bid for a €5m grant from the Erasmus+ ‘European Universities’ programme.

Young people are making decisions about what they plan to do after leaving formal education as early as Year 7 or 8, with parents, teachers and friends being their preferred information sources, according to a new report by the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Institute for Employment Research for the Department for Education.

Governments keen to raise levels of educational achievement need to look at the cultures and attitudes of parents in high-achieving countries, not just national education systems – according to new findings from researchers at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ and the Bank of Italy.