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The latest peer-reviewed findings from the third year of the study from Cardiff University suggest that doll play could be a beneficial playtime experience for children with varying social...

Large swathes of scores missing as OfS publishes first results of newly revamped exercise

Nishan Canagarajah says expansion of prestigious UK university grouping to include his institution is long overdue

New research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has found that depression and the risk of depression are linked to different inflammatory proteins in boys and girls.

In response to the ongoing calls for excellence across all sectors in Saudi Arabia, higher education institutions are pressured to rethink their practices. However, with all the governmental strategic, focused planning in Saudi higher education to achieve excellence and compete globally, there is a gap between what is expected and what is happening regarding academic excellence’s pedagogical and practical aspects. Hence, this study is an attempt to bridge that gap. The main purpose of this stu...

UK households are under pressure at a time when charities are needed more than ever but there are still ways to contribute

King’s Business School and the hospitality sector’s Energy and Environment Alliance (EEA) are launching an executive education programme developed with input from the industry’s leaders to help them to embed Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) measures in their businesses. The programme was developed through discussion with over 40 senior hospitality leaders who emphasised the role of COVID and recent energy price spikes, alongside the new IFRS® Sustainability Disclosure Standards,...

Public Release: 6-Sep-2018Computer science and psychology experts suggest discrimination is also a non-human phenomenon that could make autonomous machines susceptibleCardiff UniversityShowing prejudice towards others does not require a high level of cognitive ability and could easily be exhibited by artificially intelligent machines, new research has suggested.Computer science and psychology experts from Cardiff University and MIT…

A shift from individual to institutional performance in the next Research Excellence Framework exercise is welcome, but ignores the realities of academia. A shift from individual to institutional performance in the next Research Excellence Framework exercise is welcome, but ignores the realities of academia.

Study finds submitting an individual to UK research assessment cost institutions £6,000 on average