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• Department for Children, Schools and Families ad banned by ASA

  BNET - 2009-10-28

  A radio ad and national press ad promoted the Diploma for 14- to 19-year-olds as being ‘accepted by all universities'. However, it was ruled by the Advertising Standards Authority ASA that Cambridge University did not accept three out of four of Diplomas. The qualifications were launched in September 2008. The...

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• Clean Sweep 65

  BNET - 2009-08-10

  A round-up of recent news in clean technology and cleantech investment.DealsCambridge solar tech start-up Enecsys has raised a £6m first round led by Wellington Partners. Denmark's BankInvest New Energy Solutions also joined the round.A spin-out from the University of Cambridge, Enecsys is commercialising a micro-inverter for solar PV modules. By...

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• Condoms safety fear

  - 2008-10-20

  STUDENTS were uraed not to use free STUDENTS were urged not to use free condoms handed out at a Cambridge University freshers' fair over safety fears. The Cambridge University Student Union CUSU said the contraceptives did not have a BSI Kitemark - a symbol showing the product has been independently...

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• Cambridge University Press to Deliver Copyright Permissions Online with Rightslink®

  - 2008-10-14

  DANVERS, Mass. -- Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press, has selected Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink([R]), the most widely used online content licensing service, to provide its readers a fast and easy way to obtain copyright permissions to share and distribute published materials directly from content pages online. ...

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• World Tonight: Bad behaviour

  - 2008-10-01

  ANTI-social behaviour may be a form of mental illness, research suggested today. Scientists at Cambridge University believe the hormone cortisol could be linked to adolescents becoming unruly. They said cortisol usually increases when people undergo the anxiety of stress. The research showed disruptive male youths did not produce the same...

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• Convergence Technologies Group Incorporated Secures Support Contract with Cambridge University Press

  - 2008-09-02

  STAFFORD, England -- Convergence Technologies Group Inc (Pink Sheets:CNVG) UK subsidiary Voice 2 Voice Limited secures Support/Maintenance Contract with Cambridge University Press worth $30,000 per Annum. Cambridge University Press publishes the finest academic and educational writing from around the world. As a department of the University of Cambridge, its...

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• Cambridge University tries to soft soap elitist image

  - 2008-09-02

  LONDON AFP — Cambridge University is trying to shake off its elitist image by courting the scriptwriters of Britain's favourite soap operas, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday. The university's PR department has suggested appropriate plotlines to story editors at "EastEnders", which chronicles life in a modest east London square, and...

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• Theophrastus and his world

  - 2008-08-01

  Theophrastus and his world. Millett, Paul. Cambridge Philological Society 2007 188 pages $90.00 Hardcover Cambridge classical journal. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society; supplementary; v.33 PA6304 Theophrastus' Characters written in Athens in the fourth century B.C. has been translated, imitated and...

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• John Grote, Cambridge University, and the development of Victorian thought

  - 2008-08-01

  John Grote, Cambridge University, and the development of Victorian thought. Gibbins, John Richard. Imprint Academic 2007 526 pages $80.00 Hardcover B1589 Everyone who cares knows that the idealist movement began at Oxford University after 1870, so why on earth, asked Gibbins (philosophy...

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• Image and imagination; a global prehistory of figurative representation

  - 2008-08-01

  Image and imagination; a global prehistory of figurative representation. Ed. by Colin Renfrew & Iain Morley. McDonald Inst./Archaeol. Res. 2007 346 pages $60.00 Hardcover McDonald Institute monographs N5310 While intended for professionals in art and archeology, this book will interest anyone...

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