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(The UWI), Press Release Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Thursday, April 29, 2021— The University of the West Indies (UWI) and WhiteBoard Labs (WBL) of India will sign a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as a commitment to advancing a mutually beneficial goal to improve access to tertiary education and training for the people of India and the West Indies through a Virtual Centre of Excellence.   The signing will take place on Monday, May 3, 2021 at 6:00 pm EC/5:00 pm...

Ellie Neuro, physiotherapist at the Neuro Therapy Centre running a live exercise class. A CHARITY is set to mark its one-year anniversary of providing virtual services next week. The Neuro Therapy Centre located in Saltney, helps people with neurological conditions, started offering its Virtual Centre through telephone and online means when it was forced to close due to the pandemic, but quickly turned its services around to continue to offer its life-changing support. Celebrations are se...

One way to do that is develop what is known as a resilience action plan, or RAP. A RAP is a way for communities (be they school-based, profession-based, or neighbourhood-based) to collectively assess their strengths and weaknesses ahead of coming disasters, identify priorities and build an implementation strategy. Recent work with Tarnagulla — a small town that sits in a bushfire and heatwave-prone part of rural Victoria — offers an example. The community got together, applied for funding ...

Chirping of birds at the press of a button at Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur zoo The information about the birds is given in a room sub-divided into three rooms. There is a box on which the names of the birds are written and in which the pre-recorded chirping of the birds can be heard. Kanpur: If you live in the city and have been deprived of hearing the chirping of birds, come and visit the Kanpur zoo in Uttar Pradesh and listen to the birds in the Virtual Centre built here. The zoo premises res...