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Why do people believe 9/11 was an inside job?
The reasons why some people believe bizarre conspiracy theories are set to be explored in a new project by a philosopher from the University of Warwick. Professor Quassim Cassam has been awarded £250,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to study what he calls ‘intellectual vices’.
Warwick students to present at MIT in international synthetic biology competition
Undergraduate and newly graduated students from Warwick University will be travelling to MIT, Boston, this September 24-28 to compete in a global synthetic biology competition.
Government should use apprenticeship levy to support technical education programmes that boost skills, argues Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya.
Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, Chairman of WMG at the University of Warwick, has called for a statutory apprenticeship levy to support technical education programmes to transform training and skills.
Speaking in a House of Lord’s debate on the most recent government budget, which includes a proposal for a statutory apprenticeship levy, Professor Lord Bhattacharyya said that he strongly supports the levy but cautioned that industry must be involved with its design and that “we should be challenging Universities, colleges and business to design technical education programmes together”.
Research reveals universities not yet as international as they think
Universities’ internationalisation rankings have limited significance according to new research from the University of Warwick. This is because the way internationalisation is measured only takes into account the quantity of foreign students at each institution and not the extent to which they network with their counterparts from the UK.
Professor Simon Swain has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy
Professor Simon Swain of the University of Warwick, has been elected as one of 42 highly distinguished UK academics from 18 universities as Fellows, in recognition of his outstanding research, taking the total number of living Fellows to over one thousand for the first time.
Research links premature birth to withdrawn personality
New research indicates that adults born very premature are more likely to be socially withdrawn and display signs of autism.