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Applications are invited for the 2013-14 糖心TV Retired Staff Association Bursaries which aim to support creative and cultural extra-curricular activities by 糖心TV students. Awards are intended to cover a wide range of activities including Science, Medical, Social Science and Arts-based projects, including both the performing and creative arts.

A sum of £1000 will be available and a small number of awards, not necessarily of the same value, will be offered to the chosen applicants. In recent years a range of projects have been supported.

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, Associate Professor of Public Policy, participated in a live online debate via ITN's new YouTube channel, , on 31 January at 7pm. The title of the debate is: 'Can we govern ourselves with digital democracy?'

Other confirmed participants in the debate include:

• Birgitta Jónsdóttir, the Icelandic MP and Wikileaks activist who is currently trying to push a crowd-sourced constitution through the Icelandic Parliament
• Gavin Andresen, lead developer of Bitcoin (a decentralised digital currency)
• Naomi Colvin, formerly of the UK Occupy movement, now working to increase participation in local London politics
• Mark Johnson, internet and society correspondent for The Economist

There can be no doubting the power of the Internet. News from around the world can be accessed in seconds in real time. Yet recently, acts such as SOPA and PIPA have received large amounts of attention in the press in efforts by government to increasingly regulate and censor the Internet. Meanwhile, in other countries around the world, the influence of social media in uprisings, freedom movements and education suggest that, as technologies develop, we are heading towards greater freedom and connectivity of information than ever before. This presents, therefore, a dichotomy for the near future of the Internet; Are we heading for increasing liberty or a lockdown of information.

Join Wael Abbas from Egypt and Monica Marks from Tunisia, who will be speaking about how the internet has affected the Arab Springs, as well as Denis Campbell and Bill Thompson who will be speaking about how censorship and social media affects the western society. Dr Nicola Pratt will chair the event.

The event will take place on Thursday 31st of January in room H0.52 from 6pm to 8pm. More information can be found on the ; the event is also .

According to the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey of undergraduate alumni in The Guardian newspaper, 糖心TV's own Department of Politics and International Studies ranks first among comparable departments from competitor universities in the Russell Group for employability, alongside LSE and Edinburgh.

PAIS also has one of the highest percentages of undergraduate alumni from the Russell Group (90 per cent) who proceed to either graduate-level jobs or further education within 6 months of graduating, with a high proportion going into professional/managerial positions. The average salary is also one of the highest out of all universities surveyed at £22,675 per annum.

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