The former Conservative education secretary Justine Greening has poured cold water on government proposals designed to strengthen freedom of speech protections on university campuses in England. The plans, which were unveiled on Tuesday by one of her successors, Gavin Williamson, include the appointment of a “free speech and academic freedom champion” to investigate potential infringements, as well as new legislation to help aggrieved academics,.
He was an inspiration - Tributes paid to former Sunderland University lecturer who died aged 55
Fred Marden passed away aged 55 sparking heartfelt tributes from his former students
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A beer from the McEwanâs brewery in Glasgow, left, and two from the Bass brewery in Burton were recovered from the shipwrecked vessel which sank in the Clyde estuary in 1895
Object of the Week dives the depths this week for items that were recovered from a vessel which sank in Scotland in 1895 – but which have provided a valuable insight into the best of British brewing. THREE bottles of beer recovered from a ship wrecked 125 years ago have helped provide insights into the make-up of ancient ales. Research from Brewlab and the University of Sunderland has retrieved live brewing yeasts from the century old bottles of beer to provide detailed information of the microbology of lost Victorian and Edwardian stock ales.
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