University of Essex in the press...

March 2008

Monday 31

A new face takes helm at St Helena hospice
Christopher Pertwee is the new face at St Helena Hospice's board of trustees.  Mr Pertwee will be building on the links he made with the north Essex charity as chairman of the Colchester Catalyst Charity (CCC), a post he held until two years ago.  Mr Pertwee will now head up a board of trustees, which includes representatives from many parts of the local community , including universities, churches and health services, as well as members of the community who have been supporters over many years. 
Gazette

So how fit are you?
For many people, the path to a healthier lifestyle is a minefield. What should be tackled first? Diet, exercice, or both? This Friday, Essex University in Colchester together with the Physiological Society, is offering the public the chance to explore what a healthy lifestyle is, and how it can be achieved. The event, called Fit for Life, is suitable for those aged 12 and over and it runs from 10am to 4pm. to register your interest, visit www.fit4lifeday.org.uk.
Evening Gazette

Major Indian Company eyes Basildon base
THE leader of Essex County Council is hoping to persuade one of India's biggest companies to open a new base in Basildon. Tory Lord Hanningfield spoke of his hopes following a four-day trade mission to Mumbai and Pune in India last month.
During the trip, Lord Hanningfield held discussions with Tata, one of the biggest multinational companies in the world, which has just bought Land Rover and Jaguar, about the firm setting up its European base in Basildon.
Another coup was convincing Indian IT firm Zensar to set up links with the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, at the Southend campus of the University of Essex.
Lord Hanningfield said: "This will be fantastic for our students. The Indians are so far ahead of us when it comes to new technology and they have a lot to teach our young people." Read the entire article here.
Echo

New findings from University of Essex in the area of heart disease described
In this recent report, researchers in Colchester, the United Kingdom conducted a study to examine differences in the effect of coronary heart disease (CHD) on health functioning according to socioeconomic position. Research on social inequality in health has tended to concentrate on differences in disease prevalence and mortality rather than on the impact of disease on functioning. The researchers concluded CHD has a more detrimental effect on physical and mental health functioning among those in more disadvantaged socioeconomic positions.
Professor Amanda Sacker and colleagues published their study in Psychosomatic Medicine (Impact of coronary heart disease on health functioning in an aging population Are there differences according to socioeconomic position? Psychosomatic Medicine, 2008.
Mental Health Weekly Digest
Science Letter

1st Auditions for Major UK Acting School
East 15, one of the UK's most innovative and well respected acting schools, is visiting Korea to audition or meet prospective students.
It is the first time East 15, part of the University of Essex and based in London, has visited the country to audition students. Director of the School and well-known theatre director, Leon Rubin will hold these auditions.  There is no audition fee for these open auditions. All candidates for acting courses must prepare at least one audition speech (preferably two) up to a maximum of three minutes long, in English. Candidates for theatre directing and technical theatre will not be auditioned but will be interviewed in English. Auditions take place in Korea at Kim Seok Acting Research Institute, 612-3 Yeoksam-dong, Kangnam-Gu on Tuesday 1 April 2008, from 6pm to 9pm. Read the whole article here.
The Seoul Times

Sunday 30

RIBA shortlist for East announced
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the 13 buildings shortlisted for its East of England awards in 2008 and the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall is one of those shortlisted.  The shortlisted buildings include five in Cambridgeshire, three in Essex, three in Suffolk, one in Bedfordshire and one in Hertfordshire. The 13 buildings, picked from 29 entries, include work on the historic Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. A winning scheme will be announced on 29 May. The shortlisted schemes will be visited by an awards jury on 1 and 2 April. Read the whole story here.
BBC News

Men in their forties panic as time passes
A new study has found that men in their forties are panicked by a sense of time running out.
Researchers at the University of Essex conducted a survey of men and women aged between 39 and 59 and found that men in particular are increasingly working out with 'manic' vigour in a bid to stop the clock ticking. They also discovered that many men 'engaged in almost manic exercise regimes, changed their diets and went for frequent health checks in order to ensure not only a longer life, but also a healthy period ahead in which to fulfil their remaining ambitions'. But, this manic phase fizzled out within 10 years, with men over 50 being more settled and resigned, according to the findings.
The survey showed that middle-aged women tended to be 'more verbal about their fears of being 'over the hill.' Read the entire article here.
The Daily Telegraph
New Kerala.com
Hindustan Times
WebIndia123

Horse Sense
In the early 1900s, a horse called Clever Hans caused amazement by seemingly performing complex arithmetic. However, it was later found that he was simply responding to movements of his owner, who was really doing the maths. But now, 100 years on, researchers from the University of Essex have discovered evidence that horses actually CAN count. Chimpanzees and other primates have been shown to be able to count. But until now, there was no proof that the skill was shared by other species. Using buckets containing different amounts of apples, Dr Claudia Uller and Jennifer Lewis found that horses, like humans, nearly always choose more when they have an option. This result suggests that horses, too, and not only primates, are able to spontaneously discriminate between two small numbers, Dr Uller said.
Sunday Mirror - Oldham

Saturday 29

Biofuels: can they really save the planet?
Among green innovations, powering buses with old chicken legs is one of the more inventive. The use of 100% sustainable biodiesel made from tallow (rendered animal fat) and used cooking oil has certainly caught the imagination of passengers on Stagecoach's Stewarton-Darvel service. "We've seen an increase in the number of passengers travelling on the route," says Stagecoach spokesman Steven Stewart. The six-month trial has had another green spin-off: in the first two months, 5000 containers for used cooking oil were issued to households along the route, which could then be taken to an East Ayrshire Council recycling centre in return for money-off bus vouchers. Eight tonnes of oil were collected, giving the whole enterprise a pleasingly self-sustaining nature. Read the comments made by Professor Christine Raines, Professor of plant biology at Essex University here.
The Herald

Friday 28

Group looks at creating over 14,000 new jobs
Work to create higher value jobs in Colchester and attract more people into the town has been praised by councillors.  But when Colchester Councils' strategic overview and scrutiny panel met up at Essex University last night, they expressed disappointment because one of its major partners in the scheme - Essex University - did not send a representative along.  Chairman Tim Young suggested they write to the university to "express our disappointment".  Statistics show that only 13 per cent of university graduates are staying in jobs in the area once their studies have been completed.  Jackie Maclean (Con, Copford and West Stanway) said the emphasis had to be on training skilled people.  Mr Anderson said the creation of a new engineering centre at the college's Sheepen Road campus in September had been brought about to do exactly that.  Mr Young praised the report and it was agreed that the committee would write to the university, which the meeting heard is one of the major employers in the town.
Gazette 

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Irish gay probe wins £82k grant
Researchers are Essex University are set to use an £82,000 grant to research the experiences of Irish homosexuals living in London. A spokesman for the Taxpayers' Alliance said: "It sounds like it's come straight out of a political correctness joke book. I'm lost for words". But a university spokesman hit out at criticism saying: The university's to-ranking social science departments regularly conduct research which looks at different aspects of society and we are surprised, in this day and age, to find such a reaction to an important study of people who migrate for a variety of reasons, including a search for greater tolerance and understanding of their lifestyle".
Evening Gazette

New help with 'toughest job'
"There are no bad children, only bad parents."
The old saying provides the title for a new book by author Jane Teverson.
A trained counsellor and a mother, Jane is passionate about parenting. She wrote the book with the hope she could help parents. "It is the most important job of our lives and we receive no training at all," she said.
Twenty years on, studying for a degree in philosophy at Essex University, and later training as a counsellor, Jane found that the views she had had as a young mother were backed up by experts. "What we do to our children stays with them forever," said Jane. Read the whole article here.
Suffolk Free Press

Find My Past Partners with FamilyLink.com, Inc.: UK Censuses to be Online at WorldVitalRecords.com
Find My Past, a family history and genealogy website based in London, England, containing over 550 million family history records recently announced its partnership with FamilyLink.com, Inc. to bring UK Censuses online at WorldVitalRecords.com (a service of FamilyLink.com, Inc.). The UK census records comprise WorldVitalRecords.com’s largest database in the World Collection. As part of this agreement, WorldVitalRecords has already added the 1861, 1881 and 1891 censuses to its collection. These records are the official civil registration records for England and Wales from 1837 to the present (2008). More census records will be periodically posted county by county throughout the year. These censuses include images, and also a key-word searchable index. “We have worked with UK data archives — the academic offshoot of University of Essex — to enhance our data and to make sure it is the most accurate and searchable product that is available on the market. We are constantly improving it as well,” Collins said. Read the whole article here.
PR.com

Cameron looks the victor as the crunch bites
Read an article by Professor Anthony King from the Government Department at the University of Essex
Telegraph-Online
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'PC joke book' Irish gay project gets pounds 82,000
Read an article about the Taxpayers' Alliance attack on a Irish gay research project being carried out by the Sociology department at the University of Essex. 
Birmingham Post (This article also appears in the Irish Times, The Daily Mirror, Echo Online and Channel 4 News online)

University's study of gay Irish under fire
Essex University had to defend itself yesterday after being criticised for launching a project on the experience of Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual people who have moved to London.  Pressure group the Taxpayers' Alliance criticised an £82,000 grant given to fund the study, which is to be run by researchers from the sociology department.  However Emeritus Professor Ken Plummer, a former head of the sociology department, said he was disappointed at the negative response from the alliance and some parts of the media.  "In terms of size, compared to other studies, this is a miniscule grant", he said.  "There is a big social science research centre at the university that last year secured £6 million in funding and which looks at all sorts of social structures in Britain and how they fit together".   Professor Plummer went on to say "There are thousands of studies done.  But when singled out and looked at on their own, many examples of academic work can appear extremely trivial.  It seems to me the attitude shown here is not only slightly homophobic, but contains other elements of prejudice".  Anybody who wants to meet the criteria for the Essex University project and would be prepared to be interviewed for the study can call 01206 873551, email: iqd@essex.ac.uk or see www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/irishmigration/
East Anglian Daily Times

Don't risk lives, students warned
Pedestrians have been climbing over fences put up along the A133 Clingoe Hill by Essex County Council.  The fences were put there as a safety measure after 2 students were killed in a year crossing the busy dual carriageway.  Many walkers were choosing this option as opposed to using the subway because of muggings and recent heavy rain flooding the passage.  St Andrew's county councillor Julie Young said the Environment Agency had now been asked to help by dredging the brook that runs beside the underground pathway.  Plans are in the pipeline for a new junction with traffic lights, linking Clingoe Hill to the proposed Essex University research park, which will allow pedestrians to cross safely. 
Essex County Standard

Thursday 27

The end of history
Read an article by Martin Bright about his thoughts on the  fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the Iraq War and the 40th anniversary of the Grosvenor Square anti-Vietnam demonstrations.
New Statesman -Online

Harriet Ridolfo appointed senior lecturer for Kaplan Open Learning Business studies Programme
Harriet Ridolfo has been appointed senior lecturer at Kaplan Open Learning, the affiliated college of the University of Essex that offers online Foundation Degree programmes for working adults in the UK. 
24-7 Press Release.com

Talks due on town park-and-ride plans
A temporary park-and-ride at Colchester's new community stadium will go before planners, despite widespread criticism.  Colchester United's chief executive, Marie Partner, and secretary of the supporters club, Roger Westlake, both attacked the plan when it was brought before the council's strategic overview and scrutiny panel, held at Essex University last night. Marie Partner was concerned that the park-and-ride scheme would cause a clash on match days, when it might not be clear who was a shopper and who was a supporter.  Mr Oxford from The Highwoods Group said the service would only serve to exacerbate traffic problems currently experienced in the area.  The appplication which , if approved, will see a park-and-ride facility offered Monday to Saturday, accessing the site via the bus access on to Boxted Road.  It is hoped the temporary scheme would be in place by late this year or early 2009.
Gazette

Holmwood take early honours
Six under 11s and five under 13s mixed junior teams participated in the first round of the North Essex Junior League, sponsored by Tendring District Council and the North Essex Squash Academy and held at the University of Essex.  All the teams played two matches, with Ardleigh and Frinton both winning their matches against Harwich and Holmwood House respectively.  The second round will be held at Lexden Squash Club in April.
Gazette

Comics vie for title
Former Essex University student Paul Byrne will be one of many wannabe comedians battling it out for the title of North Essex New Comedian of The Year this week.  Nine acts have been selected to take part in the final competition being held at the Bull and the winner will pick up a £150 prize.  The event is being held in the Function Room at The Bull, Crouch Street, Colchester tomorrow night.  Doors open at 8pm, with the show starting at 8.30pm, £3 admission on door.
Gazette

Visit University for a healthy lifestyle
A free one day event is being staged by the University of Essex, together with the Physiological Society, for people to explore what a healthy lifestyle is and how it can be achieved.  The 'Fit 4 Life Day' event is aimed at showing that exercise doesn't have to be strenuous and involve gyms.  The event has been prompted by initial findings from a major research project at the university.  Fit 4 Life takes place on the university's Colchester campus on Friday April 4th, from 10am to 4pm.  The day also links in with the national science curriculum at GCSE and A-level.  For more information go to www.fit4lifeday.org.uk
Essex Chronicle

'Dustbin' wins design award
A new lecture theatre at the University of Essex that came in for criticism from Prince Charles recently has won a Civic Trust Award.  The Civic Trust, of which the Prince is a patron, is a charity dedicated to the promotion of quality design in the built environment.
Times Higher Education

Wednesday 26

Letters Left challenge on NUS reform plan
Read an article about how  the National Union of Students leadership will ask its annual conference to vote on the governance review in the name of "modernisation" and "democracy".
The Guardian, Online

Researchers call for Irish LGBT Londoners
Read an article about Researchers at the University of Essex are looking for participants to take part in a research study which aims to investigate the experiences of Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people living in London.
Huliq.com

The 9 Most Common Kitchen Mistakes even healthy women make
Read an article about how the way you store and prepare food could rob you of their essential ingredients, including findings from the University of Essex.
Shape.com

Tuesday 25

London student unions push to ban military presence on campus
Read an article about a student union which believes that because the British military under the Labour Government is currently engaged in an aggressive war overseas, for the union to use its resources to encourage students to join the military or participate in military recruitment activities at this time would give political and material support to the war.
The Edinburgh Journal

Southend's Palace future still in limbo
Read an article about plans for the Palace Hotel in Southend.
Echo-online

Brown launches local election campaign
Read an article about Brown's local election campaign including comments from Paul Whiteley, Professor of Government at the University of Essex.
The Guardian Online

Researchers from University of Essex, Department of Biological Sciences describe findings
BORIS (for brother of the regulator of imprinted sites), a paralogue of the transcription factor, CTCF, is a novel member of the cancer-testis antigen family. The aims of the present study were as follows: (1) to investigate BORIS expression in breast cells and tumours using immunohistochemical staining, western and real-time RT-PCR analyses and (2) assess potential correlation between BORIS levels in tumours with clinical/pathological parameters." The researchers concluded: "The ability of BORIS to activate promoters of the RP and ER genes points towards possible involvement of BORIS in the establishment, progression and maintenance of breast tumours."
Cancer Weekly

Monday 24

Coming to a Gym Near You the Cooling Shoe, Ear Sensor, and Smart Bra
Click here to read about new gym tools being developed by the University of Essex.
Wired News

Fences no barrier for road crossing
Pedestrians have been risking their lives climbing over fences designed to stop them crossing a dangerous dual carriageway.  The fences on Clingoe Hill in Colchester were put up as a safety measure after two students were killed in a year crossing the busy road.  They are proving unpopular as the subway under has been flooded following the heavy rain.  There are plans for a new junction with traffic lights, linking Clingoe Hill to the proposed Essex University Research Park, which will allow pedestrians to cross safely via a green man crossing. 
Gazette

Balancing act! Conflict between town's heritage and its future
Mr Philip Crummy, director of Colchester Archaeological Trust, is giving a lecture this Wednesday called 'Always Finding Something'.  It is a plea to be sensitive to Colchester's historical heritage and protect it from future developments.  A few days ago Colchester MP Bob Russell told the House of Commons and English Heritage that  much of the town's architectural heritage is "in danger of being demolished" to make way for new developments.  He is mainly concerned about the Victorian shops and flats along St Botolph's Street which are right in the middle of an area planned for the biggest regeneration project Colchester has seen.  Mr Jarvis, the councillor in charge of planning and regeneration on Colchester council insists Colchester's heritage is "safe in our hands".  "We would not go ahead with any of the plans if English Heritage said those plans would destroy the town".
Gazette

Friday 21

Art collection endorsed
The collection of Latin American art at Essex University has received accreditation from the national Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).  The presentation of the award also included the addition of a new piece of work, donated by Marcela Montes, which was created by her husband Fernando in 1977.
Gazette

Thursday 20

It's s-miles all round
Hundreds of people took part in the Colchester Mile as part of this year's BBC Sport Relief event.  The event was hosted at Colchester's Roman chariot track, with up to 800 runners tacking on, three or six miles to raise money.  Among those taking part were the women's football team at Essex University.
Essex County Standard

Who's Who
New entries for the 2008 Who's Who include: Professor Dawn Ades, OBE from the Department of Art History and Theory; His Honour Godfrey Gypps, Visiting Fellow, Department of Law; Sir Nigel Rodley from the Department of Law; Professor John Scott from the Department of Sociology.
Essex Life

Time for Revolution
No such thing as an ill wind as University of Essex gets its own turbine.
Wind turbines are no longer the preserve of windfarms and isolated rural locations. The university of Essex demonstrates how an urban turbine can be beautiful and functional. As part of its commitment to reduci8ng its impact on the environment, the University of Essex is currently evaluation a range of ways in which it can become more environmentally sustainable. Championed by the University's Estate Management Section, a scheme to install a 5m vertical axis wind turbine, the QR5, is the centrepiece of the University's programme for carbon reduction. The turbine will be installed as part of a new Health and Human Sciences (HHS) building to be completed in summer '08.
Innovation East

Southend-on-Sea
The opening of the University of Essex's new campus in the heart of Southend-on-Sea has provided a modern addition to facilities for Essex businesses. The Business Hub, located in the University's Gateway Building, is a specialist resource providing information, training and professional facilities to foster and sustain a successful business culture. Alongside a meeting and conference suite and a Business Incubation Centre for new and growing companies, the jewel in the crown of the Business Hub is the new and improved i-Lab.
Anglia Industry and Business

Nicola's silver leap
Colchester Harriers' Nicola Gaisford represented Essex University and earnt the silver medal in Sheffield with her high jump leap of 1.60 metres.
Essex County Standard

Talk on town finds
Colchester's archaeologist supremo Philip Crummy is to lift the lid on the town's great historic discoveries. He will give an illustrated talk on some of the town's precious finds at Essex University on Wednesday.
Essex County Standard

Tom wins area title
North Essex Squash Academy (NESA) students featured in all of the four final events at the North Essex Area Boys and Girls under 15/17 championships at Essex University.
Essex County Standard

Wednesday 19

Students walk down catwalk for hospice
A catwalk show is being organised by students in aid of Fair Havens Help our Hospice Appeal.  The South East Essex College students read about the Hospice's plea for support in the Echo and decided to plan a fashion show to help.  The show will take place at Saks, in Clifftown Road, Southend from 7pm.  Tickets cost £3.50 each if brought in advance and are available direct from Saks and the Havens Hospice shop, which is in Alexandra Street.
Echo

Trainees hear news sense
Trainee Journalists at South East Essex College got a lesson in dealing with breaking news from Journalist Jonathan Brown, who started working for the Independent newspaper, on September 11, 2001, which turned out to be busiest news day ever. 
Echo

Big expansion of online activity puts web skills in huge demand
Fifteen years ago the web was barely a ripple on the sea of international business. Today the internet and the web are an integral part of global commerce. In this new online business world, it is the computing MSc students creating new applications and technologies that allow us to use the internet for shopping, social networking, information provision and a host of other activities, who help to define the world in which we live.  At the University of Essex, Simon Lucas teaches the MSc in advanced web application programming. He says: “We expect our students to have graduated in a numerate discipline. They must have done computing and be competent programmers when they arrive. Usually they have a computer sciences background, or have done a science with some computing.”  Read the whole article here.
Times online and The Times

Essex team funded for 3 year study
A major research project in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex has secured funding of more than £470,000 for a three-year study of free radicals that could provide crucial information in the fight against major debilitating diseases. Free radicals are key players in many chemical and biological processes, often necessary to sustain life. Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Professors Mike Wilson and Chris Cooper with Drs Dima Svistunenko and Brandon Reeder will lead research within the newly formed Centre for Radicals and Oxidative Stress (CROSS) that hopes to produce a way to eliminate them.
“Ultimately we aim to identify the rules that govern free radical movement,” said Prof Wilson.  Read the whole article here.
Business Weekly

Researchers from University of Essex, Department of Psychology describe findings
Fresh data on multiple sclerosis are presented in the report 'Spectral filters can improve reading and visual search in patients with multiple sclerosis.' Newman and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Neurology (Spectral filters can improve reading and visual search in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology, 2007;254(12):1729-35).  For additional information, contact B. Newman Wright, University of Essex, Dept. of Psychology, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK.
Immunotherapy Weekly

Tuesday 18

Harriers pair stay in touch
Read an article about Colchester Harrier's top male and female runners who took part in the Hastings half marathon, including Nicola Gaisford who was representing Essex University.
Evening Gazette

Scientists uncover a novel mechanism that regulates carbon dioxide fixation in plants
A team of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded scientists at the University of Essex has discovered a new mechanism that slows the process of carbon dioxide fixation in plants.
Life Science Weekly

New findings from University of Essex, Department of Biological Sciences describe
A new study, 'Iron chelators can protect against oxidative stress through ferryl heme reduction,' is now available (see also ). According to a study from Colchester, the United Kingdom, "Iron chelators such as desferrioxamine have been shown to ameliorate oxidative damage in vivo. The mechanism of this therapeutic action under non-iron-overload conditions is, however, complex, as desferrioxamine has properties that can impact on oxidative damage independent of its capacity to act as an iron chelator."
Science Letter

Art gallery position advertised
A position as commercial director for Colchester's new art gallery is being advertised with a salary of between £40,000 and £45,000 per year.  Firstsite director Kath Wood said the appointment would help Firstsite, who work with the new Community Stadium and Essex University, fill a gap in the market for conferencing in Colchester. 
Gazette

University taking shape
The University Campus Suffolk (UCS), which is being built on the Waterfront in Ipswich, Suffolk, is well on it's way to becoming a reality and will be the hub of higher education delivery in Suffolk. The UCS organisation has been created through a partnership between the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex, and includes county-wide provision of higher education through colleges at Bury St Edmunds, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Otley and at Suffolk New College in Ipswich.  Its overall drive is to drive economic and social development and to encourage the county's finest students to stay in the area when they continue their education after leaving school.
Evening Star

Shoppers on the ball at charity cash collection
Essex University's American football team, the Essex Blades, collected more than £200 for charity when they stood outside Tesco in Greenstead Road.  The event was in aid of Leonard Chesire Disability which supports 21,000 people with disabilities across the UK.  The money will go to the charity's care home in Great Bromley, which is home to 28 disabled adults.
Gazette

UEA lose Derby Day to Essex
Another academic year is drawing to a close and once again the university varsity against Essex University (aka Derby Day) has been and gone. Wednesday 5th March saw the majority of UEA’s sports teams boarding the coaches to Essex for the eighth annual Derby Day, with the mindset of repeating last year’s thrashing of Essex, which took place here at UEA. However, what followed was a tense day of matches with teams barely edging each other out in an overall very close competition. In the end, Essex just pipped UEA to the post, with the final score being 21–18. Read the whole article here.
Concrete online.

Wishy-washy and not much to offer women
Small businesses in south Essex have given Chancellor Alistair Darling's budget a lukewarm reception. There will be a capital fund of £12.5 million to encourage more women entrepreneurs.  But Alex Kaye, owner of Chilton House Hotel said "I don't think this budget offers much for a young woman wanting to get into business." But Simon Swords, 25, who runs Atlas Computer Services from the Business Incubation Unit at the Southend Campus of Essex University thinks women should seize what the budget offers.
Echo

Ten-Storey flats approval for college's former site
Plans for a ten-storey block of flats on the former South East Essex College site in London Road, Southend , have been recommended for approval. 
Echo

Monday 17

International student wins top award
A University of Essex student from Cyprus, who helps budding entrepreneurs set up their own businesses, has been named the East of England International Student of the Year. Panayiotis Stylianou will now go on to challenge for the national title of overall International Student of the Year 2008 in a prestigious British Council competition.
Mr Stylianou, a 23-year-old computing and management student, is one of 12 regional winners who will be treated to an all-expenses-paid trip to London in April, where they will meet a final judging panel before going on to have their extraordinary achievements honoured in a national awards ceremony. He was one of more than 1,500 students, representing 127 nationalities, to enter the sixth annual International Student Awards.
Mr Stylianou founded the Essex Entrepreneurship Society to provide consultancy services to enterprising international students who are keen to start their own businesses. Students are given business advice and help in acquiring work permits and national insurance numbers.  Mr Stylianou has also set up an Internship Finding Programme, which has successfully linked university students with local businesses.
He also takes part in a range of other extra-curricular activities, from organising regular Greek parties to captaining the university's water polo team.
Press Association
Milton Keynes Citizen
Scarborough Evening News

Using science to find future Olympians
Pupils from schools across Colchester enlisted the aid of science to find out whether they could represent their country at the London 2012 Olympics. More than 80 year nine pupils from the Gilberd, Philip Morant, St Benedict's, St Helena, Stanway and Thomas Lord Audley schools attended the annual Colchester Junior Lecture at Essex University.
Evening Gazette

MP joins students' protest
Members of Essex University's Stop The War Coalition (STWC) were joined by Colchester MP Bob Russell in showing their solidarity with the Palestinian people. On Friday afternoon, student supporters built a cardboard wall across part of their campus the symbolise the wall built by the Israeli Government that divides Gaza fromthe rest of Palestine. Hundreds of students signed messages of support for the Palestinians.
Evening Gazette

Saturday 15

NESA students take the title
The University hosted the North Essex Squash Championships (NESA). Several students from the North Essex Squash Academy, based at the University were successful. Read the whole article here.
Evening Gazette

Friday 14

Watching the detectives
Click here for article by Prem Sikka about company auditors.
Guardian Unlimited

How to stay healthy in a sick economy
Following the budget last week, studies are linking recession to ill-health, particularly depression, suicide, anxiety, cardiac disease and other medical maladies. Dr Mark Taylor from the University comments on how the psychological impact of housing repayment problems is well above that caused by general financial hardship. Read the full article here.
The Times

Book lights up sporting use
The controversial subject of drug use in sports is the subject of a new book published this month by scientific experts at Essex University. Editors Professors Chris Cooper and Ralph Beneke from the Centre for Sports and Exercise Science have focused on the science of improving sports performance by legal and illegal means. The book, entitled Drugs and Ergogenic Aids to Improve Sports Performance, is aimed at final year undergraduate and post-graduated.
Essex County Standard

Thursday 13

Campus probe into vote rigging
Student Leaders have been rocked by a hi-tech vote-rigging scandal at Essex University. A probe was launched following reports of alleged voting fraud during last month's student union elections. Voting was carried out online and hackers are believed to have cast 180 illegal votes from four separate internet addresses. The university and students' union are now trying to find out who  rigged the original vote.
Evening Gazette

Prince's dustbin wins design prize
The flagship Essex University lecture hall has scooped a prestigious design prize - less than a month after Prince Charles described it as looking like a "dustbin". Last night the £4.5 million Sir Ivor Crewe Lecture Theatre was among 30 winners from across the country announced at a major ceremony for the Civic Trust Awards in Newcastle.
Evening Gazette

University of Essex: Raising expectations on the east coast
Ministers want 20 new campuses to be built over the next six years. A new university building at Southend aims to lead the way – and boost the local economy too. Lucy Hodges takes a sneak preview
Once upon a time, Southend was a magnet for day trippers from the East End of London, luring them in with the biggest fairground in the south of England. But since the 1960s it has become just another shabby seaside resort, attracting first teddy boys and mods and then new romantics and ravers to its famous beaches.
Now parts of the town centre are so deprived that they attract European Union funding. The result is that suddenly money has started to flow in to the Essex seaside resort: new shops have sprouted on the high street; the station has been refurbished; an enormous further education college has gone up on what used to be a car park; and, wonder of wonders, a university campus opened last week to add some gravitas to the facelift. The Southend campus of the University of Essex is a large £26.2m building flashing plate glass in all directions, with amazing views of the Thames Estuary on one side and a derelict Prudential block on the other. Its aim is to revive the town's flagging economy. "It will help to restore the physical fabric of the town centre," says Professor Colin Riordan, Essex's vice-chancellor. "But, more important, it will be a magnet, attracting outsiders to the place and making it more vibrant." Read the whole article here.
The Independent

Commission appointment
An Essex University law specialist has been appointed to the Legal Services Commission.  In her new role, Professor Carolyn Hamilton, director of the university-based Children's Legal Centre, will contribute to the Government's reform programme for the justice system, including the creation of a new-look legal aid scheme.
Evening Gazette

University clinch division two title
University had good wins against Fingringhoe, Stanway C, Wix and Colchester B to clinch the men's division two title of the Colchester and East Essex Badminton Federation.
Evening Gazette

Capturing Colombia
Gallery likes travelling.  We're in Colombia this week as typified by the work of Juan Manuel Echavarría, showing two parrots forced to share a perch, constantly arguing; one trained to say 'peace', the other 'war'.  Once more, With feeling, a major international exhibition of contemporary photography and video from Colombia, is at the University of Essex Gallery until March 22.
Go! (Essex Chronicle)

'Dustbin' building wins top award
Prince Charles likened it to a "dustbin" but last night a modern building at Essex University scooped a highly-respected award. It was one of 30 winners picked from 400 entries from projects judged to make an "outstanding contribution to the quality and appearance of the environment". Ironically, Prince Charles is the patron of the trust which also judged that the lecture theatre spaces were well-designed. They concluded: "...elegant and simple, the lozenge-shaped building provides a focal point for the university campus".
East Anglian Daily Times
Press Asssociation

Sir Martin Harris, the head of the Office for Fair Access, has been elected president of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Sir Martin a former Vice-Chancellor of the universities of Essex and Manchester and a former chairman of the CVCP (now Universities UK) will take up post in October.
THE

Wednesday 12

Tragic end for the un-PC police chief who targeted real criminals and enjoyed being back on the beat
Read an article about Former Essex Officer Mr Michael Todd.
Daily Mail - Online
The Guardian
The Daily Telegraph
The Independent
Evening Gazette

Women fill up charity run
A Colchester charity run has been filed just five weeks after it was opened. Around 2,000 women have signed up for the Castle Park Cancer Research Race for Life which will take place on May 11. but around 345 places are still available for the Essex University Race for Life taking place on July 27.
Evening Gazette

Patients flock to free dental clinic at uni
A free dental service has been a roaring success since it opened earlier this year.
Southend Health and Dental Care Centre, based in the University of Essex's Southend town centre complex and staffed by dental students, has already treated more than 1,100 patients. The clinic, which operates under the St Barts and London NHS Trust, was launched in January and is to be officially opened by the Princess Royal on Tuesday, April 22.  Patient Dennis Ward, 75, of Arnold Avenue, Southend, is delighted with the service he received at the clinic, in Elmer Approach. He said: "It's brilliant. Nothing is too much trouble for them from the moment you walk in the door. "It doesn't feel like a normal dentist's. They are really concerned about you and take their time. All the equipment is bang up to date and they are prepared to put you at ease and offer all the help they can." Read the entire article here.
Southend Echo

He's hauling in the visitors by livening up the events
He doesn't wear Gucci loafers. He doesn't smoke cigars. His last name is neither Bialystock nor Bloom. Yet when titles were being assigned at the newly established Rubin Museum of Art three and a half years ago, Tim McHenry was designated producer. An anomaly in the museum world, the title suits Essex Graduate Mr. McHenry, who is in charge of public programming at the museum. Founded by Donald and Shelley Rubin to show their collection as well as travelling exhibitions, the Rubin is in a 70,000-square-foot space, formerly part of Barneys department store, in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. Devoted to the art and culture of the Himalayan region, the collection covers a geographical expanse that stretches roughly from Myanmar, formerly Burma, to Afghanistan. Since the Rubin opened in October 2004, attendance has reached 100,000 visitors a year, many of them regulars, and Mr. McHenry can rattle off the numbers event by event. 
New York Times

IMM Student from UK prefers India Job
Jann Gabriel wants to stay on in India. A student of Essex University, she had come to India to study at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. With that being over, she's decided to take up a job offer in India rather than go back. Jann's decision is probably owing to the effect of the recession in the US and European markets that has led to massive job cuts. But there has been an 11 per cent hike in the number of placements in Asia Pacific region for IIM Ahmedabad graduates this year.And Jann says she's taken the right decision. ''Business environment here is very different than what I have seen in Europe. I think it is the right moment to be in India,'' said Jann Gabriel, IIM Graduate. Read the entire article here.
NDTV.com

India business insight
Zensar Centre for Business Innovation (ZCBI) has collaborated with the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex. The centre intends to launch programmes in Pune and London. The programmes intend to help in developing a managerial workforce. ZCBI will use its Solution BluePrint framework to enable software automation and create reusable components. Students are expected to spend nine months at the Zensar campus in Pune and may opt for three months at the University of Essex.
The Financial Times

Acclaimed police chief found dead
The body of Former Essex officer Mr Michael Todd, 50, was found yesterday afternoon at the bottom of a cliff near Bwlch Glas in Snowdonia, Wales.  Suicide is one line of enquiry being investigated, according to sources, and there were reports that letters addressed to the family have been found.  Mr Todd leaves a wife and three children.  He had been tipped as a future commissioner of the Metropolitan Police - the UK's highest policing position.  Association of Chief Police Officers president Ken Jones said Mr Todd had made "an enormous contribution to policing in Manchester and nationally throughout his distinguished career" and that news of his death was "a tragedy".
East Anglian Daily Times

'Taxes should rise'
Professor Abhinay Muthoo from the Department of Economics,  University of Essex has argued that there should be tax rises in today's Budget to ensure the health of the UK economy.  'Given the current state of the economy and public finances, the budget should, overall, introduce substantial tax rises and a freeze, perhaps even cuts, in public expenditure in some areas and/or in some public investments, ' Prof Muthoo said.  But he also thinks there should be positive changes to earnings at the lower end of the scale saying, 'The threshold of the 40% rate should be increased.  A large number of ordinary people are in this bracket, along with the really rich'.  He also argued for an increase in taxation on air travel to raise revenue to help with carbon reduction and calls for a freeze on public sector pay.
East Anglian Daily Times

Tuesday 11

Pushing the envelope
Thurrock, along with Peterborough, Harlow, Grimsby and Blackpool, among others is not what you'd call a higher education hotspot.  It is, in fact, rather cold. The proportion of young people going into higher education is a paltry 12% and there is no local university. The council already has plans to change that, with £60m-£80m from the Learning and Skills Council for a new building and to finance up to 3,000 further education and higher education students. The universities secretary, John Denham, is calling on towns and cities to bid for university campuses or higher education centres - 20 in total, over the next six years - to improve access to HE in places where it is in short supply. Thurrock has partnered South East Essex College with Anglia Ruskin University and the universities of East London and Essex to build the "Thurrock learning campus" in Grays that will focus on courses in social services and teaching. Read the whole article here.
The Guardian

Malays join others in moving away from racial politics
In the 1999 election, Malay voters swung against the Barisan Nasional (BN) especially Umno, amid the reformasi movement following the sacking of former deputy premier Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Their protest votes, however, were not translated into massive seats for the opposition parties. The Chinese and Indians in that election threw their weight behind BN. Wong Chin Huat, who is completing his PhD in University of Essex on the electoral system and party politics in Malaysia concurred: 'Economy, crime and the loss of legitimacy in the (BN) government over such matters as the electoral process, judiciary and corruption are the pull and push factors of the Malay support for the Opposition". Read the whole article here.
Sun2surf

Monday 10

Zensar Centre ties up with Essex varsity
Zensar Centre for Business Innovation has announced its collaboration with the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex for creating global entrepreneurs. New programs and initiatives are envisaged simultaneously in Pune and London. The tie-up with the University of Essex would address the shortage of managerial skills and also help in developing an entrepreneurial workforce. An Extension Centre would be created in the University of Essex using Zensar's Solution BluePrint (SBP) and students would spend nine months in Pune at the Zensar campus and could opt to spent three months at the University of Essex.
Business Line

Friday 7

Human guinea pigs sought
Researchers are appealing for migraine sufferers to act as human guinea pigs in a bid to find a cure. A team at Essex University are launching a two-year research project into treatment for the attacks.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard

Young 'will catch the Olympic bug'
The sight of Olympic athletes training in Colchester will inspire young people to take part in sport, it is claimed. Essex University was chosen as a potential training camp for basketball and football. David Williams, director of sport said: "This is great news for the university and Colchester, which will help to inspire young people to take part in sport. We offer excellent sports facilities, accommodation and sports science support and, we will be working with our partners to promote Colchester to Olympic athletes".
Essex County Standard

Colchester: Stay vigilant
Revellers were today urged to be vigilant amid fears a gang of "steamers" is at work in Colchester. Police are probing evidence that a gang of seven men swarmed across the dancefloor at a town nightclub, stealing as they went. They are also investigating an assault on a woman in the early hours and claims that a clubber's drink was spiked. The steaming incident is thought to have happened earlier this week at Essex University's Sub Zero club. Sarah Mills, from the University, said: "It is rare for crimes to occur on campus, and the university works closely with the police to ensure that the campus remains a safe environment".
Evening Gazette

University keep premier top spot
Junior Football
University of Essex thirds remained on top of the premier division after beating Colchester Hotspurs 4-2.
University of Essex fourths beat Ardleigh and University fifths has a 3-0 win over New Field.
Essex County Standard

Thursday 6

Huge award for science
Scientists have scooped almost £500,000 to investigate how free radicals work in the human body. The compounds are believed to cause cell damage that can lead to conditions such as arthritis and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at Essex University have been given £470,000 to study why they make things go wrong. They hope it could lead to a major breakthrough.
Evening Gazette

Olympic stars train here
Chelmsford is set to become the Olympic capital of Essex as the county prepares to host the world's top athletes. In all, 20 training venues are earmarked across the county, which Olympic chiefs say could provide a boost of almost £140 million to the local economy. Cambridge, Essex, Hertfordshire, Anglia Ruskin and Bedfordshire universities are all included, offering world class facilities and, in many cases, sports science and sports medicine support.
Essex Chronicle

Where the grass is greener
The University of Essex comes fifth in a quality-of-life ranking that has been designed as a tool for academics, particularly those looking for jobs. Categories include price of housing, local crime rates, quality of local schools and traffic congestion.
THE

Single parents' plight
Campaigners called today for more help for children in long parent families as new research from Essex showed mothers still suffer a "significant" drop in income after splitting from a partner. But the fall has reduced over the past decade, the study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the university found, from an average 30 per cent drop between 1990 and 1997 to an average 12 per cent in the period 1998 to 2004. The research by ISER director Professor Stephen Jenkins also found that while women's incomes do recover, they do not return to their previous levels.
Evening Gazette

Focus on photographers
Contemporary photography from Colombia is the subject of a new exhibition talking place at the Essex University art gallery. Once more, with feeling is a major international exhibition of photography and video work bringing together the work of five Colombian artists whose photography references themes such as humour, identity and memory.
Evening Gazette

Success for school speaking teams
Four public speaking teams from a Chelmsford school have achieved success in competitions. The Year 10 team from St John Payne RC School won the heat for the English speaking union public speaking competition hosted by the University of Essex in Colchester. The team will now on on to the East Regional final on March 15.
Essex Chronicle

Psychologist eyes speed record
An academic is hoping to win a place in history as one of the world's fastest motorcyclists. University of Essex sports psychologist Murray Griffin will try to break the land speed record in August.
THE

Wow! Is that a college building?
The FE sector not known for good architecture is creating landmarks for learning.
Colleges seeing the benefits of investing in new buildings and facilities. Four years after South East Essex College moved into a £52m flagship building in the centre of Southend, applications are up 42 per cent. With the University of Essex having recently opened a second building next door, the college sees the campus as a one-stop education shop within a few minutes' walk of the town's two railway stations. Jan Hodges, SEEC's Principal says "A lot of people's experiences of education is of fairly run-down uninspiring buildings. When they come here, there is a wow factor".
The Independent

Wednesday 5

Marital splits are still costly for mothers
Mothers who separate from their partners are recovering faster from the collapse in income that many women experience after a marital split, research reveals. The Institute for Social and Economic Research at Essex University found the financial effects of separation used to be catastrophic for mothers and children.  But the mothers are recovering faster from financial meltdown as they are more likely to get a job and are more likely to qualify for support from the state to make the job worth doing.
The Guardian

Tuesday 4

Fourth generation biofuels mooted by UK researchers
A team of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded scientists at the University of Essex, UK, has discovered a new mechanism that slows the process of carbon dioxide fixation in plants. The research, published today (4th March) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, increases our understanding of this process, which may ultimately lead to crop improvement and ‘fourth generation’ biofuels. Read the article here.
Biofuel Review

New study shows way to fourth-generation biofuels
In a finding that paves the way for fourth-generation biofuels and dramatic crop improvements, scientists have got a fix on how plants regulate the amount of carbon dioxide they use after taking it in from the air.
For instance, when there is not enough sunlight, plants put the brakes on the amount of carbon dioxide they use to make food. But as sunlight increases, the brakes are rapidly released, in a process called the Calvin cycle.In a new study, researchers at the University of Essex have found that this variable speed control mechanism works thanks to a special relationship between two enzymes involved in the Calvin cycle. Read the whole article here.
Malaysia Sun
Innovations Report - read the article here
Hindustan Times
NetIndia123 - read the article here
New Kerala - read the article here
Yahoo India - read the article here
Life Science Weekly

Home Office and Treasury now owned offshore
Billions of pounds of private finance initiative projects approved by Gordon Brown, including the refurbished Treasury headquarters in Whitehall and the new Home Office, have been moved offshore by their City owners to avoid paying tax on their profits. Prem Sikka, Professor of accounting at Essex University, said yesterday that the latest revelations should be the subject of an inquiry at Westminster. Read his full comments here.
The Guardian

Scheme to save taxpayers money that became tax avoidance scheme
City investors in private finance initiative schemes have found a more sophisticated way of avoiding tax, after the highly controversial transfer of the Inland Revenue's estate to Bermuda five years ago. This led to the Treasury banning departments from signing deals with companies using offshore tax havens.
"The way these contracts are being handled ought to be investigated by the Commons Treasury committee," Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting at Essex University, said yesterday. "The taxpayer is losing out. They are having to pay rent for these projects but the tax base is declining." Read the whole article here.
The Guardian

Fair dues
Corporate tax dodging places a greater burden on those least able to pay. It's time we made the multinationals play by new rules
Corporations are engaged in a relentless race-to-the-bottom. Companies boost their profits and executive remuneration by diluting or abandoning employee pension schemes and tax contributions. Read Professor Prem Sikka's full article here.
Comment is free - The Guardian

PFI projects ‘offshored’
Equity stakes in more than 50 private finance initiative projects have been shifted offshore to avoid tax, according to national press reports.
The Guardian says billions of pounds-worth of PFI projects, including the refurbished Treasury and the new Home Office buildings, are being moved offshore so that investors can avoid paying tax on their profits.
Prem Sikka, professor of accounting at Essex University, told the newspaper that the issue “ought to be investigated by the Commons Treasury committee”.
Public:Private Finance

Treasury project goes offshore to avoid tax
More than 50 private finance initiative projects worth billions of pounds and including the refurbishment of the Treasury headquarters in Whitehall and the building of the new Home Office have been moved offshore to avoid taxes.  Prem Sikka, a Professor of Accounting at Essex University, said the Commons Treasury committee should investigate the contracts’ handling. “The Government should put clauses into PFI contracts preventing them being transferred offshore for a set period. The only reason to move to the Channel Islands is to avoid taxes or to take advantage of less transparent auditing. The taxpayer is losing out.”
The Times

Spotlight on census
The history of the UK census will be the focus of a series of workshops for sixth-formers, hosted by Essex University. The events are being staged as part of the national Festival of Social Sciences.
Evening Gazette

Migraines? Maybe you can help Uni
A team at the University are launching a two-year research project into treatment for migraine attacks and are appealing to migraine sufferers to act as human guinea pigs in a bid to find a cure.
Colchester Gazette

Four bid to share games spotlight
Colchester has scooped gold in the race for Olympic glory. Four sports venues, including the Colchester Campus, have made it onto the shortlist of approved training facilities for athletes competing in the London games in 2012.
Evening Gazette

Olympic boost
Olympic teams could be training at as many as 15 venues in north Essex for the 2012 games - part of an expected £140million boost to the local economy. Colchester's application to be included as a potential training camp was put together by the Colchester Partnership for London 2012, which includes the borough council, Essex University and the Army. David Williams, director of Sport at Essex University, said: 'This is great news for the university and Colchester which will help to encourage young people to take part in sport. We offer excellent facilities, accommodation and sports science support and will be working with our partners to promote Colchester to Olympic athletes.
East Anglian Daily Times

Scientists discover mechanism that regulates carbon dioxide fixation in plants
A team of scientists has discovered a new mechanism that slows the process of carbon dioxide (CO2) fixation in plants, which may ultimately lead to crop improvement. Discovered by scientists at the University of Essex, the mechanism helps to regulate the way in which plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into sugars. It acts by putting the brakes on sugar production when there is not enough energy from sunlight available. As sunlight increases, the brakes are rapidly released and carbon dioxide fixation speeds away. Plants are dependent on sunlight to capture carbon dioxide, which is turned into important sugars via a process called the Calvin cycle. As a result, the amount of sunlight varies during the day. Read the whole article here.
Yahoo News India
CheckBio Tech

MP praises innovative iPads in Colchester
Bob Russell, MP for Colchester, and local councillors gathered recently to mark the launch of the first iPads at Colne View, the new development by Barratt Eastern Counties in Colchester. Barratt is building 69 iPads at Colne View – the first iPads in Essex. Guests were invited to view the show home to see for themselves that good design doesn’t have to come at a high price.
Colne View, is next door to the University of Essex. First time investors benefit from both the low price of an iPad and a ready-made market of students seeking a home close to the university. Read the whole article here.
Easier Property

Monday 3

Colchester Olympic Training Sites Shortlist Announced
Several Sports facilities in Colchester have made it on to the short list of training facilities for athletes competing at the 2012 Games, including the University of Essex. Experts say the Olympics could generate £139 million for Essex, both from athletes based in the county and increased tourism.

Colchester to be a potential pre-games training camp
LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) has confirmed today that Colchester's application to be included in their directory of potential training camp venues has been successful. This is excellent news for the Borough and ensures that Colchester will be promoted to all Olympic and Paralympic Committees throughout the world as a suitable place to train ahead of the Games in 2012.
As an endorsed location, it also means that competing nations will be able to apply for a grant from LOCOG to train in Colchester. Colchester's application to be included as a potential training camp was put together by the Colchester Partnership for London 2012, which includes key partners in the Borough such as Colchester Borough Council, the University of Essex and the Army. Read the whole article here.
24 dash.com

Workshop
Read article - IBS Mumbai Venture Academy and School of Entrepreneurship and Business University of Essex, UK have organised a launch workshop for Venture Funds and Entrepreneurs to take place on March 7, at IBS Mumbai.
Mumbai Mirror

Conference on teenage troubles
A one-day conference focusing on the emotional and mental health challenges facing today's teenagers is to be held in Essex later this month.  The event is dedicated to the memory of Adam Talbot, a young medical student who took his own life in 1992, and aims to highlight the need for specialist emotional and mental health support for young people as well as discuss what it's like to be a teenager in Britain today.
East Anglian Daily Times

Saturday 1

Prozac goes to the dogs
Read an article about reports claiming the anti-depressant 'Prozac' does not work when given to dogs and that exercise is key. Furthermore a study by University of Essex has proved exercise in a natural environment such as a country park is more effective in relieving depression than a walk in a shopping centre.
Sydney Morning Herald

First pictures inside new arts centre
Read an article about the interior of Colchester's new contemporary building which will house galleries for a full range of contemporary arts, including a showcase section for Essex University's Latin American collection, a working studio space and large conference areas.
East Anglian Daily Times

Move to keep foreign students
The Government is to encourage overseas students from graduating from British universities to stay in the country as part of an initiative to attract more skilled and professional people into the workforce.
East Anglian Daily Times

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