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5+ mon, 3+ week ago (123+ words) A trade union says vice chancellor's pay rise could have saved multiple university staff jobs. The proposed archive service cuts are part of the university's cost-saving plans which risk 78 jobs. The vice-chancellor says the university needs to make "5.3m worth of savings. The contribution will enable the start of creating the Albert Gubay Business School, the university said. Cardiff University's boss says redundancy numbers are uncertain as Bangor also seeks job cuts. Thousands of shipwrecks lie on the UK seabed, many forgotten and many still mysteries. The North Wales Medical School, based at Bangor University, will initially train 80 students to become doctors. Campaigners say it can be tough for student unions to try to put on events without alcohol....
Arts - Programmes - From Wales To Timbuktu: turban - BBC
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (114+ words) Clip of a turban being tied during the 2009 BBC Wales/Indus programme From Wales To Timbuktu, on the BBC Wales Arts website. From Wales To Timbuktu: turban In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Michael Eccles from the Jump4Timbuktu organisation finds out how a turban is tied in Timbuktu, Mali. - Notebooks kept by Elly, Emma, Laura and Oli TV & Radio Programmes - 25 Nov 2013 18:3019:00 BBC Radio Foyle Arts Extra - 25 Nov 2013 18:3019:00 BBC Radio Ulster Arts Extra - 25 Nov 2013 19:0019:30 BBC One The One Show...
University of Sheffield - BBC News
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (144+ words) March walk-outs could still go ahead but many affected staff have accepted settlements, say union. The isolation felt by many in the pandemic culminated in an unexpected career change for Yu Wang. A total of 36 staff at the University of Sheffield International College are at risk of redundancy. University of Sheffield experts say promotion of the Drink Less app could save the NHS "500m. New report says bringing airport back into use cannot be justified during climate crisis. Helen Shelton, from Sheffield, is part of a medical trial it is hoped will help stroke survivors. Overall survival rates were 25% higher among patients who received durvalumab, trial shows. The University of Sheffield building, as well as a "pocket park", will be built on Leavygreave Road. Sir James Fraser Stoddart, a former University of Sheffield lecturer, has died at the age of 82....
BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | In the Studio: Kwaku Bediako
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (152+ words) How Ghanaian fashion innovator Kwaku Bediako is redefining luxury In the Studio: Kwaku Bediako Available for over a year Ghanaian fashion innovator Kwaku Bediako is redefining luxury with sustainability at its heart. We step inside his world as he transforms second-hand garments into bold, high-fashion pieces, worn by global stars such as Stevie Wonder and Ian Wright. It was when he noticed how much material was being thrown away, that he decided to create a new brand, Cacao, where discarded fabrics can become the material for garments worn to red carpet events across the world. Kwaku has been commissioned by music producer GuiltyBeatz to make him a bespoke outfit ahead of this year's Grammy awards in LA and Daniel Dadzie goes with Kwaku as he hunts for second hand clothes at Kantamanto, Accra's largest thrift market. It's a place where…...
BBC Audio | In Touch | The Return to University
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (203+ words) AI Macular Degeneration Detection; New Money For Blind Sport Banks and ATMs; Assistive Tech for Work It's our 60th Birthday! It's All About The Music! Touch Screen Card Machines; Your Emails National Clinical Director for Eye Care; Two Mayors, Same Household Accessibility at Further Education Colleges; Guide Dog Retirement Age In Touch at Christmas Former British Army Soldier; then and now. The Lives of Youngsters Drag Queens and Kings Retinal Vein Occlusion; Reading the Room Highway Code Changes; Young Animator Tactile Paving Updates; Accessible Lateral Flow Tests Book Share; Winter Paralympics 2022 Visually Impaired in Ukraine European Blind Union on Ukraine, what3words Ukrainian Stories from Poland Elections Bill - The Final Decision; Accessible Opera Guide Dog Refusals at Indoor Establishments; NaviLens September marks the start of the new university term. We hear from some visually impaired students who are returning to their studies. They…...
Put your questions to Tom English & Andy Burke
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (185+ words) Despite a scare, Scotland eventually proved too strong for Italy in their Six Nations opener at Murrayfield. With a bonus-point win secured and a game against old foes Ireland next on the cards, do you have any questions for our rugby writers Tom English and Andy Burke? Send them in via this link, external and they will be answered on this page later in the week. Transfer deadline day: Spurs agree deal for Tel, plus updates on Gonzalez, Guehi and more Premier League: Build-up as Potter returns to Chelsea with West Ham Crystal Palace reject Tottenham's "70m bid for Guehi Keeley Hawes stars in a new Austen period drama Will Cassandra expose the private details of her life, or send her sister Jane's legacy up in flames? Atmospheric crime drama set in Norway Norwegian detective Wisting tackles grisly cold cases and…...
BBC Audio | Woman's Hour | Weekend Woman’s Hour: Ms Tina Knowles, Tennis at Queens, Dr Grace Spence Green, Bernardine Evaristo
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (168+ words) Julianne Moore, Forced adoption in China, Nurses vote on pay deal Ultrarunner Stephanie Case, Alice Figueiredo, Women's Super League, Cycle tracking apps Abortion, Spending Review, Lara Pulver, Yael van der Wouden Race Across the World, Women's Prize winners, Ute Lemper, Measles at Glasto Weekend Woman's Hour: Julianne Moore, Women's Prize for Fiction winner Yael van der Wouden, ultrarunner Stephanie Case Child sex abuse gangs, Older surrogacy, Ranking friends Comedian Rosie Jones, Grooming gangs, Playing outside Abortion vote, Crime writer Karin Slaughter, Co-sleeping with older children, Racing driver Abbi Pulling Trisha Goddard, HIV prevention, Family favourites, Air pollution Natalie Fleet MP, a spike of botulism cases and Kethiwe Ngcobo on her mother Lauretta Model Hailey Bieber has sold her make-up company Rhode in a deal worth up to $1 billion. She joins a list of other celebrities earning millions from their cosmetic…...
BBC Audio | Arts & Ideas | Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (300+ words) The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature. David Bailey, Don McCullin Is British Culture Getting Wierder? The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Women, relationships and the law past and present The Council Estate in Culture Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri Childhood faces and fears Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais? Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture A city is not a park but should it be? Anxiety and the Teenage Brain The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go Shopping Around the Baby Market 'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get? Healthy Eating Edwardian Style Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in…...
BBC Audio | Arts & Ideas | New Thinking: Stitching Stories
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (286+ words) Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress Muses and women's creativity Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation Sleep justice and sleeplessness Free speech, censorship and modern China From algorithms to oceans Gas, oil and the Essex blues The Legacy of the Laundries New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners New Thinking: East West artistic connections New Thinking: Light and Darkness What does feminist art mean? Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey New Thinking: Exploring the local Recycling Victorian clothes, the history of costume design, the messages conveyed in art made from textiles and the stories encoded in ancient embroidery are explored by Shahidha Bari and her guests Isabella Rosner, Rianna Norbert-David, Jade Halbert and Danielle Dove. They also look at exhibitions at the Barbican Gallery in London and the Museum…...
BBC Audio | Arts & Ideas | New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (125+ words) Queen Charlotte, fashion and music Sound, conflict and central heating Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science Rocky Horror and camp Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright Linda Grant and Jewish history Sneezing, smells and noses The Troubles in Northern Ireland Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday Life, art and drama in the kitchen The Sorrows of Young Werther From unboxing and influencers to circular fashion and a new artwork unveiled for Earth Day: New Generation Thinker Xine Yao from University College London hosts a conversation about sustainable fashion ideas. This New Thinking episode of the Arts & Ideas podcast was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI...