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IS line up for excellence award

Tue, Mar 31, 2009

The University of Portsmouth’s Information Services team has been short-listed in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards for being at the cutting edge of technology nationally.....more

Law students raise the bar for University of Portsmouth

Tue, Mar 10, 2009

Law students at the University of Portsmouth have beaten other students from across the south to the final of a national negotiation competition.....more

£700K cash injection for city’s culture plans

Wed, Mar 25, 2009

Ambitious plans to develop Portsmouth as a centre of creativity and culture received a major boost this week. ....more

Three new sea-serpents waiting to be discovered

Tue, Mar 24, 2009

Three new large marine mammals, so-called sea-serpents, are extremely likely to be discovered according to researchers.....more

New boost for health researchers in the South

Wed, Mar 18, 2009

A free service has been launched in the South to help those working in health and social services to apply for research funding. It will help people with research ideas and aspirations become more successful in obtaining money from funding bodies. ....more

Gender bending shrimps help researchers to find sex genes

Mon, Mar 16, 2009

A scientist at the University of Portsmouth has won a half a million pound grant to further his research on the mysterious ability of some shrimp to change sex.....more

Hard hitting film scoops first prize

Fri, Mar 13, 2009

A University of Portsmouth student filmmaker has won first prize for his film which portrays students finding out the hard way about the dangers of getting drunk.....more

University sees 13% increase in research funding

Thu, Mar 5, 2009

The University of Portsmouth has received a 13 per cent increase in research funding following its success in last year’s Research Assessment Exercise, the national survey of research quality in UK universities which determines the allocation of public money for research.....more

Unemployed need better protection

Wed, Mar 4, 2009

The rising number of long-term unemployed referred to private contractors paid £1,500 per person to find them work need better protection from bad practice and unfair sanctions, according to a special adviser to the government.....more

Library joins forces with University for creative experiment

Tue, Mar 3, 2009

It’s not often that libraries encourage their customers to do anything with the books they borrow other than read them. But a unique artistic experiment which places forty five blank books in Portsmouth Central Library is about to change all that. ....more