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BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

With around 25,000 students from 80 different countries, Birmingham City University is one of the largest universities in the UK and our popularity has grown significantly in recent years. Between 2008 and 2010, we had the highest rise in UCAS applications of any university in the Midlands.
Situated in Birmingham, the UK’s second city, we are proud of our strong links and close collaboration with the region, which dates back to 1843. The University puts more than £270 million into the regional economy and supports thousands of jobs in the city and surrounding area.
Our six academic faculties offer over 350 courses, from foundation level, through undergraduate degree programmes, to taught Master’s courses and research doctorates. About a third of our students study part-time, combining employment with our professionally relevant courses, improving their career prospects.

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY

We are proud of our traditions and accomplishments and excited by our potential. Our academic, business and student services are geared to the professions and supported by a passionate commitment to high-quality academic endeavour and achievement.
We enjoy a reputation for excellence through education, research, enterprise and professional practice. And whilst we remain committed to our region, we have an outlook that is truly global.
We value creativity, innovation, partnership and enterprise with an attitude that is friendly, professional, inclusive and supportive. We are large enough to offer our students diversity, yet small enough for them to be part of a friendly and thriving cosmopolitan community.
Our programmes are designed and delivered to give our graduates every opportunity to pursue employment and career enhancement and we consistently achieve high rates of graduate-level employment.

BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY (BAS)

Who We Are

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, it has, for over 60 years, undertaken the majority of Britain’s scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent. It now shares that continent with scientists from over thirty countries.
BAS employs over 400 staff, and supports three stations in the Antarctic, at Rothera, Halley and Signy, and two stations on South Georgia, at King Edward Point and Bird Island. The Antarctic operations and science programmes are executed and managed from Cambridge, and rely on a wide-ranging team of professional staff.
Ice-strengthened ships sustain the Antarctic operations. RRS James Clark Ross has advanced facilities for oceanographic research. RRS Ernest Shackleton is primarily a logistics ship used for the re-supply of stations. Four Twin Otter aircraft fitted with wheels and skis are operated from Rothera and Halley, while a wheels-only Dash-7 aircraft provides the inter-continental air-link from Rothera to the Falkland Islands, and flies inland to blue ice runways.
The current BAS science research strategy is called Polar Science for Planet Earth (PSPE). The strategy was based on proposals from staff and consists of 6 integrated programmes. In addition the competitive Antarctic Funding Initiative (AFI) provides access to Antarctica for BAS and NERC staff and the UK university community.
The total BAS budget for 2012-2013 is £48.8 million. Of this, £13.5 milllion is spent on the science programme, and £35.3 million spent on supporting the science, which includes the costs of running the ships, aircraft and research stations. The high costs involved highlight the challenges BAS faces in operating within a harsh and remote environment.