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New Centre will develop Business School research projects
23rd November 2016A NEW research centre was launched at Edinburgh Napier University today. The International Centre for Management and Governance Research (ICMGR) aims to bring together academic and professional knowledge on international management and governance.
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CONTRIBUTE TO QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY’S SUCCESS – APPOINTMENT OF LAY COURT MEMBERS
22nd November 2016Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh, is in an exciting phase of its strategic development. In support of that development, the University Court is seeking to appoint to vacancies in its lay membership.
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ScotRail Alliance winter roadshows help keep customers informed
22nd November 2016As temperatures drop, ScotRail Alliance teams will be out at key stations meeting customers and helping them to prepare for their winter travel. In a series of winter roadshows taking place at busy stations across the country, customers can find out more about how the train operator will keep them informed about service disruption, including the ScotRail App, text alerts and station announcements. In particular focus this year is the commitment to update them by 4pm on the day before services are going to change or be cancelled due to adverse weather.
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Diabetes UK and The East India Tea Company are holding a T for D event to raise awareness of Diabetes UK
22nd November 2016Diabetes UK in conjunction with The East India Tea Company are holding a T for D event to raise awareness of Diabetes UK.
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Travel advice ahead of Scotland v Georgia match
21st November 2016Rugby Park plays host to Scotland’s third and final Autumn International in Kilmarnock on Saturday 26 November, and ScotRail is reminding customers travelling to the game by train that services will be busier than normal, following last week’s emphatic win over Argentina. ScotRail will be adding carriages to services…
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Budding designer wins jewellery challenge
21st November 2016Orcadian student wins Scotland-wide competition, marking Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design An Orcadian student is set to have her winning competition designs brought to life after wowing judges with her range of contemporary jewellery, inspired by one of Scotland’s Neolithic sites. Historic Environment Scotland partnered with…
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Edinburgh to host Eurocities conference In 2018
21st November 2016One of the most prestigious conferences in Europe, EUROCITIES, is to be held at the EICC in Edinburgh in 2018. The announcement was made this morning at this year’s conference and AGM being hosted in Milan.
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Killer Flu is Hiding in Your Dirty Desks
21st November 2016Unbelievably, the 1918 flu pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, and flu still contributes to tens of thousands of deaths each year. Estimates suggest that flu recently resulted in up to 49,000 deaths in the US (CDC).
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Balancing the pros and cons of incorporating a charity
21st November 2016The tenth anniversary of OSCR, Scotland’s charity regulator, has seen a number of changes to the way it regulates charities. One significant development affects any existing charity thinking about becoming incorporated and it comes into effect this month (November 2016).
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Iron Age settlers in Easter Ross revealed as intellectual leaders
21st November 2016A new publication makes a compelling argument that the Picts of Northern Scotland offered a sequence of highly sophisticated responses to the politics of the rest of Britain and continental Europe. The project uncovered evidence that between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries, the little fishing village of Portmahomack was reinvented respectively as an elite settlement, a monastery, a Viking trading place, and a medieval township.”
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