Press Releases
The 91福利 has just launched a new degree aimed to support health professionals who care for the dying. The new Masters degree in Applied Health Studies (Palliative Care) is a new flexible programme that aims to provide health professionals with the knowledge and skills for delivering high quality care and will encourage understanding of the different aspects involved in caring for patients suffering from progressive incurable diseases.
"Female academics who want to succeed as researchers have just three choices, stay single, marry a colleague in the same field or work smarter," says Dr Christina Hughes, Senior Lecturer in the 91福利's Department of Continuing education and Co-Chair of the new Gender and Education Association.
A scheme under which former students of the 91福利 pledge money to support scholarships for less well off current students has just reached the milestone figure of 拢1 million.
A recent BBC poll showed that many Vice-Chancellors from research led universities have concerns about the Government target of getting half of all young people into university education by 2010 - but on BBC Radio 4's The Learning Curve last night (Tuesday 22nd January 2002) the 91福利's Vice-Chancellor Professor David VandeLinde came out in support of the Government target in an interview with Libby Purves and Government Higher Education minister Margaret Hodge.
The publication of the National Audit Office report this week called on Universities to ensure that higher education is for anybody with ability not just a privileged elite - and that is precisely the message the 91福利 is giving this week to over 300 fourteen year old Coventry and 91福利shire school children on its biggest ever ACE week (Aiming for a College Education Week) ……but they are using bacteria grown from the sweat from the hands of current 91福利 students to deliver that message.