Category: cumbria

News, posts and releases on Cumbria in the North West of England.

North West Regional TV Campaign to include all regions

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THE NEED FOR REGIONAL TV INFORMING ENGLISH NORTHWEST COMMUNITIES, KEEPING FOLK INFORMED OF EVENTS LOCALLY, NOT JUST IN GREATER MANCHESTER AND MERSEYSIDE. For all Those living in the two-thirds of the English North West North of Preston. The main purposes of Regional Television are to inform communities of what is happening in their areas and …

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University of Cumbria STEM facility extension taking shape

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Extended laboratory facilities to support science, technology, engineering and maths disciplines at the University of Cumbria are rapidly taking shape. Thanks in part to a £784,000 investment from Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership, the county’s strategic economic body, the first modules of the university’s new STEM labs at the Fusehill Campus in Carlisle have been lifted …

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Happiness in the workplace

Ask most managers what their top priorities are for their direct reports and I would be hugely surprised if the word ‘happiness’ appeared anywhere on a list littered with words like ‘productivity’, ‘creativity’ ‘target-orientated’, ‘efficient’ etc. But we are now interested in the idea of happiness at work (and in society) and there is a …

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