The University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is committed to providing a truly international education, inspiring students, producing world-leading research and benefiting the communities around campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia. The purpose of the University is to improve life for individuals and societies worldwide. By bold innovation and excellence in all that it does, the University makes both knowledge and discoveries matter.
The University of Nottingham has 42,000 students at award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and Malaysia. It was ‘one of the first to embrace a truly international approach to higher education’, according to the Sunday Times University Guide 2013. It is also one of the most popular universities among graduate employers, one of the world’s greenest universities, and winner of the Times Higher Education Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development’. It is ranked in the UK’s Top 10 and the World’s Top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong and the QS World Rankings.
More than 90 per cent of research at The University of Nottingham is of international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. The University aims to be recognised around the world for its signature contributions, especially in global food security, energy & sustainability, and health. It won a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its research into global food security.
More info: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

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Discover better ways to support people with dementia. Explore signs and symptoms, interventions, support networks and more. Gain expert knowledge and skills to care for individuals living with dementia. Dementia is becoming more common worldwide. On this course, you will learn to understand people with dementia and to care [...]

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Learn what it takes to become a vet and explore the challenges of the vet profession to decide if it's the right career for you. Get virtual vet work experience before embarking on a veterinary degree. The COVID-19 pandemic means that many potential vet students cannot undertake animal handling [...]

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Get an introduction to image acquisition and analysis for biologists – from basic techniques to the future of image analysis. Improve your image analysis knowledge and ability to analyse your images. The use of automatic image analysis in the biological sciences has increased significantly in recent years, especially with [...]

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