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Saturday 1st October 2011

Impact Journalist Shortlisted for Mind Media Awards

Mind, one of the UK’s leading mental health charities, has long been recognising the media’s contribution towards raising awareness for mental distress and mental health issues.  Previous winners of Mind Media Awards include cricketer Marcus Trescothick, soaps such as Eastenders, and documentaries from a variety of television channels.…

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Saturday 1st October 2011

And in other news… DIY atom-splitting

A Swedish man spent six months attempting to build a nuclear reactor — in his kitchen. Richard Handl wrote about his experiments on a blog, updating readers about incidents such as minor meltdowns on his stove. Authorities were only alerted months later when Handl began to question whether…

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Saturday 1st October 2011

Nottingham ‘Unileaked’

Documents and photographs suggesting that the University of Nottingham has monitored students through covert filming have been leaked to the website Unileaks by supporters of the suspended lecturer Dr. Rod Thornton. In May of this year, Dr. Thornton was suspended from the University after he published an article…

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Friday 30th September 2011

News In Brief – September ’11

Nottingham student nurses lose placements Nursing students at the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston were removed from their training places without warning. 52 of the approximately 100 student nurses affected were from courses at the University of Nottingham. The students were withdrawn in July with immediate effect, after the…

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Wednesday 28th September 2011

The End of the 2:1?

According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), 46% of students in Britain graduate with a 2:1 — which is perhaps why seven top universities in this country, including the University of Nottingham, are thinking about scrapping honours classifications in favour of the American Grade Point Average (GPA).…

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Tuesday 27th September 2011

Good News, Bad News. September ’11

Good news for… Gay couples in NY July 24th was a busy day for the state of New York as hundreds of same-sex couples legally tied the knot for the first time in its history. Often cited as one of the most liberal states in the US, New…

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Monday 26th September 2011

Why Journalists should learn from the events in Norway

On the day of the attacks in Norway, the name Anders Behring Breivik was not yet known worldwide. But in the immediate aftermath of the bomb blast in Oslo and the shootings in Utøya, the absence of a culprit caused a frenzy — not amongst Norwegians, but amongst…

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Saturday 24th September 2011

Troy Davis: A Deserved Execution?

It is nearly half a century since the last person was executed in the UK.  Since then this move has generally been seen as a positive step, if only due to it being a failsafe against grave miscarriages of justice. The case of Troy Davis, recently executed by…

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Friday 16th September 2011

Compensation for student accused of terror offences

A Nottingham University student who was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences in 2008 has been paid £20,000 in compensation. Rizwaan Sabir, who was a masters student at the University, downloaded a document titled “The Al Qaeda Training Manual” from a US Government website as part of his…

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Thursday 8th September 2011

Remembering 9/11: The mistakes made before, during and after.

From Thursday to Sunday Impact’s ‘Features’ and ‘News’ teams will publish four articles regarding the consequences of 9/11. Four different writers have chosen to discuss separate branches of the impact of the attacks that occurred in 2001. We look at the political, social and emotional cost of the…

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