links for 2010-11-17

Students at Edge Hill will have seen a strange sight on campus yesterday – a tricycle equipped with hi-tech cameras taking photos for Google!

Stupid Flash website but has an article about Where's Wally.

"It follows the rise in student flats in and around Ormskirk due to increased numbers attending Edge Hill University, which currently boasts 25,000 students."

Slightly misleading – a lot of our students live with parents, family or study at other campuses. But we'll not let details get in the way of the Addy.

EDGE Hill University students are travelling to London to protest against cuts in Higher Education.
The students’ union has organised a coachload of its members to go down to the demonstration next Wednesday (November 10) organised by the National Union of Students.

TRAINEE teachers at Ormskirk’s Edge Hill University have put on their own version of TV show The Apprentice.

The students turned their classroom into a mock boardroom to deliver teaching sessions to 17 and 18-year-olds studying A-Levels at Saints Peter and Paul’s Catholic College in Widnes.

The aim was to give students a taste of higher education and boost the trainees’ skills.

Edge Hill University’s corporate communications team are taking a step Back to the Future for a sponsored walk to mark the institution’s 125th anniversary. They will walk the 15 miles from the original university site in Edge Hill, Liverpool, back to the Ormskirk campus. The event will raise money for the Alumni Fund.

“Development of Edge Hill University brings jobs and money to the area, as well as status, which can, among other things, help and support the town market. Parking needs to be improved, both in the town and the University, even at the expense of some green belt, which I and most people would not object to as a solution. Some is likely to be lost in any case to future development.

ACCLAIMED Australian singer-songwriter, Chloe Hall, will be showcasing her dulcet tones at Edge Hill University’s Rose Theatre this Friday (November 19).

A UNIVERSITY official turned his hand to poetry to help his recovery from a quintuple cardiac bypass operation.

And the resulting poems from Roy Bayfield, who works at Ormskirk’s Edge Hill University, have been published in the book, Bypass Pilgrim.

MASS violence and the Holocaust will be in the spotlight at a special lecture at Ormskirk’s Edge Hill university on Wednesday.

Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus, from the University of Manchester, will from 2pm deliver the talk, which will include a look at compensation paid to victims of Nazi crimes, memorials and exhumations of corpses.

The talk, which will be held in room H204, in the Faculty of Health, will look at international agreements.

Based in the north-west of England, Edge Hill University offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a variety of different areas. The university’s Media Technology department has recently purchased three GY-HM790E camcorders alongside corresponding RM-HP250DE for use in their HD studio.

RT @EwanToo: Asda selling commemorative Will and Kate cup for £5, all in the best of taste I'm sure http://bit.ly/cqqT6A