Immortalising researchers and advancing the human race - UK higher education’s scientific research programmes
The evolution and progress of mankind has above all else been fuelled by scientific research. One of the biggest contributors to this research is the UK’s higher education system. Over the many decades of the existence of the UK’s higher education system, driven by their scientific research programmes numerous discoveries and inventions have come to light. A handful of these innumerable discoveries and inventions are the contraceptive pill, MRI scanning, the world’s first animal cloned from a cell taken from an adult animal, usable LCD technology and the birth of the first usable computer. The list is endless and constantly in the process of being made longer.
Taking a more in-depth look at one of the more recent contributions and impacts to society that scientific research done by the UK’s education system has led to are the advances in the treatment of childhood autism. Scientists and other specialists world over are of the opinion that children identified as being autistic find interacting with other people challenging and frightening. It was discovered that people with autism were much happier interacting with computers, as they found them safe and predictable compared to human beings.
Having begun their research in the early 1990s a group of university based scientists developed a robot which was introduced to autistic children in 2005. This robot has helped give its creators and the children that are exposed to it, the ability to focus on abilities of the autism rather than the disabilities of the individuals. In trials conducted it was discovered that autistic children suddenly started to do things that they were not normally known or expected to do.
This robot that has become a breakthrough in terms of therapy for children with autism is now being further developed to make it more accessible to families. This UK university based research is to make the already cheap robot even more accessible to families that do not have high incomes.
Students who become the researchers and developers of such advanced scientific breakthroughs such as the aforementioned robot, greatly impact society and the world. These students are forever immortalised by their ground-breaking scientific research which opens the doors to a world of opportunity to them. Furthermore, they have been known to become some of the world’s most influential and inspirational characters some even winning Nobel Peace prizes for the scientific research conducted in the UK.
Students aspiring to continue their higher education in the UK come from every corner of the world not only to be a part of the ground-breaking scientific research programmes but for so much more. They come in search of experiencing the diversity of the multicultural lifestyle that it offers, new lifestyles, the beauty of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and so much more. These experiences and factors are a mere handful of the many benefits that act as the ultimate temptation to students during their decision to come to the UK to pursue their dreams.
For more information on how you can begin your higher education in the UK, please call the British Council on + 94 (0) 11 4 521 521 or visit britishcouncil. lk/study-uk.