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Dyson provides money for Imperial engineering scholarships

£1 million scholarship scheme to fund postgraduate design and engineering students at four universities, including Imperial

The James Dyson Foundation has set up a £1 million scholarship scheme for postgraduate design and engineering students. The Dyson vacuum cleaner creator said that engineering needed to be promoted to help the UK’s economic recovery.The donation will be used to fund four postgraduate bursaries of £25,000 per year for students at Imperial, Bath, Bristol and Corpus Christi Cambridge, awarded on the basis of “passion” for engineering, academic ability and financial need.

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Supreme Court rules “ragebait” is valid legal defence

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Supreme Court rules “ragebait” is valid legal defence

The UK’s highest court sided with Imperial students in two out of three crucial test cases focusing on crimes that involved “ragebaiting”. The decision reversed earlier court rulings that denied the possibility of ragebaiting as a plausible and honest reason for harmful and destructive acts. Previously, these offences only

By NegaFelix and Juby Roy