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Birmingham In Local Lockdown
Birmingham City is back in a local lockdown, as rising figures of COVID-19 cases sweep the city.
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COVID-19 Outbreak at UNC-Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has seen a cluster of COVID cases following its reopening last month
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University Applications Hit Record High Despite Pandemic
Despite the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic, UCAS figures suggest that a record high of 40.5% of all school leavers in Britain have applied to begin degree courses in September
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UoB Reduces Module Choices for Students
News Reporter Lauren Novelli writes about the student reaction to the University of Birmingham reducing the number of modules available
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Second Wave of COVID-19 ‘likely’ in West Midlands
News Reporter Adam Toms looks at the likelihood of a winter wave of the coronavirus in the West Midlands
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Revealed: How UoB Let Down its Student Workforce During Lockdown
The University of Birmingham (UoB) has not furloughed many of its student workers in addition to cutting many jobs normally filled by postgraduate students, News Writer John Wimperis reports
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Government Arts Package: What does this mean for Birmingham Theatres?
News Reporter Lauren Novelli analyses what the government arts package will mean for Birmingham theatres
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Accommodation Company Refuses to Terminate Contracts During Lockdown
News Reporter Ellen Knight looks at how accommodation companies have dealt with tenants during coronavirus
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LSE Campaign to Encourage Students to Study Humanities
A new campaign called Shape, led by the London School of Economics (LSE), aims to encourage more students to choose arts, humanities and social science subjects. The campaign is backed by LSE, and by the British Academy and Arts Council England (ACE)
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UoB Refuse to Disclose Number of NDAs Issued
The University of Birmingham has signed up to five different non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) since 2016, according to a Freedom of Information request obtained by Redbrick
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UoB students launch company to reduce teacher workload
University of Birmingham (UoB) postgraduate students Manjinder Kainth, Robert Stanyon, and George Bartlett have launched 6 Bit Education, an AI-based marking system that ‘learns how maths, physics and statistics teachers give feedback,’ meaning that they don’t have to mark the same answer twice, thus reducing teacher workload.
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Corbyn Supports NUS Tuition Fee Refund Campaign
Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour Party leader, has supported the National Union of Students’ (NUS) #StudentSafetyNet campaign for mass complaint action