Institute collaborates with global education providers to bring the best degrees to UAE Video Credit: Supplied
Westford University College is an award-winning educational institute, delivering quality programmes for over a decade. It has an international reputation for excellence. With students coming from more than 116 countries, its student body is one of the most diverse in the region. Westford prides itself on providing a lifelong learning experience to a global community of learners.
Westford University College’s vision is to be a global institution that offers affordable quality education to all learning aspirants. It aims to help students aspire, innovate and master the fundamentals of management education and carve a niche in a variety of disciplines through constant research, experiential learning, and impactful teaching. The institution strongly advocates in intensifying the knowledge contribution by linking the knowledge gained in academia to the industry.
Furness College The head of Furness College is urging businesses across Cumbria to start the New Year by taking on an apprentice and taking advantage of incentives of up to £2,000 before the 31st March deadline. Principal and Chief Executive Professor Andrew Wren says the Government’s pledge to reward employers shows its commitment to apprenticeships and offers the chance to bring fresh-thinking into an organisation. “Due to the pandemic, we have had to transform the way we work and the businesses that have succeeded are more often than not those that embrace change. “Taking on an apprentice is a chance to look to the future and bring new skills into the workplace, skills that will help to future proof firms across the county.”
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As Covid-19 continues to put pressure on healthcare providers around the world, engineers at the University of Bath have published a mathematical model that could help clinicians to safely allow two people to share a single ventilator.
Members of Bath s Centre for Therapeutic Innovation and Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control have published a first-of-its-kind research paper on dual-patient ventilation (DPV), following work which began during the first wave of the virus in March 2020.
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Dramatic changes were seen in the delivery of radiotherapy treatments for cancer during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in England.
Much shorter radiotherapy courses were delivered, treatments were delayed where it was safe to do so and some increases were seen in order to compensate for reduced surgical capacity.
Experts believe the changes reflect an impressive adaption of services by the NHS, and that the overall impact on cancer outcomes is likely to be modest.
The new research, led by the University of Leeds, with Public Health England and the Royal College of Radiologists, reveals that there was a decrease in radiotherapy treatment courses of 19.9% in April, 6.2% in May, and 11.6% in June 2020, compared with the same months the previous year.
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Research from the University of Kent has demonstrated a decline in son preference by women of childbearing age in Bangladesh. However, the study also shows that fertility decisions are still influenced according to son preference.
The paper, Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh? , surveyed a nationally representative sample of Bangladeshi women of childbearing age, born between 1975 and 1994, to assess how son preference is evolving.
The term son preference refers to any situation where parents value sons over daughters and make resulting choices accordingly, which can have a strong economic and demographic impact.
The study finds that among women of childbearing age in Bangladesh, son preference is giving way to a desire for gender balance, a consequence of increased female education and employment. However, in contrast to these stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son preference.