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1. Apprenticeships and Student Governance policy updates

   The new Apprenticeships Policy has received Academic Board approval and 20 Student Governance policies, guidance and pro forma have recently been reviewed, and have received minor amendments.

2. Professorship conferred on Vice-Chancellor

   Mark Power, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Liverpool John Moores University, has been conferred as a Professor of Higher Education Leadership.

3. How do we create better opportunities for young people?

   Social mobility, levelling up and what employers want from graduates are among the topics at a high profile event being hosted by Liverpool John Moores University.

4. New 'low carbon' cement idea wins international engineering prize

   Civil engineers who developed a new type of cement which creates 80% fewer carbon emissions have won a prestigious international prize.

5. The Conversation: Most humans haven’t evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates – here’s why

   Evolutionary biologists Dr Laura Buck and Dr Kyoko Yamaguchi write in The Conversation on how human species (hominins) have coped with cold climates over the millennia.

6. LJMU graduate Paulo to join Amorim at Man Utd

   PhD in Sport Science Paulo Barreira part of Sporting boss's backroom team

7. Searching for Kuwaiti War dead

   LJMU's Forensic team add knowhow to nation's search for last resting places of soldiers

8. Memory offers new clues to onset of dementia

   People dying with Alzheimer's 11% down on memory tests taken years earlier

9. New website course search function

   This week marks the launch of an exciting new development to our website. A project group have been working with an external agency (Sagittarius) to improve the course search function.

10. Public Health institute (PHI) host the European Federation of Environmental Health (EFEH)

    Public Health institute (PHI) host the European Federation of Environmental Health (EFEH) a regional branch of the International Federation of Environmental Health, which seeks to a provide means for exchanging information and experience on environmental health works to promote co-operation between countries