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NURSERY BUILDING WINS DESIGN AWARD
The building that is home to the Northumbria University Nursery has won a design award to add to the growing collection in recognition of its new premises. The £1.5m nursery building
has won the 2013 Lord Mayor’s Design Award in the Small Scale Development category. The bi-annual awards
aim to encourage, promote and publicise excellence in architecture and environmental design. Awards are given to outstanding projects in the fields of landscape design, architecture, conservation, refurbishment, housing and sustainability. The nursery building,
which opened in 2012, allows access for parents and carers by bio-metric fingerprint. Its design incorporates ‘green’ features including sensor and dimmer light technologies to enhance natural light use and reduce unnecessary energy use, and the roof has been planted with sedum to encourage wildlife and fited
Slam dunk at Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire New University basketball players are looking to play their way to academic success as well as score points on the court, thanks to a partnership set up by the University and Surrey United Basketball Club. Surrey United play in the British
Basketball League and 12 of its players are studying three-year BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science degrees at Bucks New University in High Wycombe as well as turning out to play for the side in matches around the country.
The students, from countries around
Europe, started the course in September and spend 17 hours per week training and playing for Surrey United, in addition to studying and competing for Bucks New University’s basketball team. Paul Morgan, head of sport at
Bucks New University, said: “This is a fantastic programme involving students from Lithuania, Poland, and Portugal, as well as the UK. The students are serious about their academic study, and they are inspired by training and competing in the British Basketball League.
ABOVE: The Buckinghamshire New University team in action University recognised by equality index
with photovoltaic cells to help reduce energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions. Damon Kent, Director
of Campus Services at Northumbria University, said: “This is an excellent achievement for the Nursery, the University and the design team from Ryder Architecture. The nursery is the latest project in our continued improvement of the campus which has seen the University invest over £100m in the last six years.”
The University of Sheffield has been recognised for its outstanding support for staff after being ranked in the top 100 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index. Sheffield was placed
82nd out of almost 400 organisations across the UK in the nationally recognised league table, which benchmarks organisations according to their support provisions for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) staff. This year the University
rose 24 places and was highlighted as a fully inclusive community to work in with staff and
students endorsing the institution as a supportive working environment. Andrew Dodman,
director of human resources at the University of Sheffield, said: “Our vision is to create a remarkable place to work and LGBT equality is a key aspect of this. Being in the Top 100 serves to both acknowledge our efforts, and provides a strong platform for us to continue with this really important work." The University of
Sheffield aims to support people, regardless of their sexual orientation or any other equality
characteristic, to work together to create and be part of an all-encompassing university community. Over the past 12
months an innovative collaboration of staff across the University, including the LGBT staff and student networks, have launched a number of pioneering initiatives such as Storying LGBT@TUoS. The project began as a partnership between the LGBT Staff Network and the LGBT Student Commitee to create a film documenting the experiences of LGBT
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