A team of renowned scientific experts has joined forces from across the world to help fight the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, which hold the key to beating the deadly pandemic and releasing countries from debilitating lockdown restrictions. Together they have created a unique online guide, published today and […]
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Alumnus Steven Li is the founding member of Ride for Children, a bike ride in China which aims to donate resources to children in need as well as raise awareness and spread positive energy. On behalf of Newcastle University, Jessie Su, the in-country Regional Recruitment Manager for China, used her […]
Sheffield Hallam has won a prestigious Guardian University Award for a project which captures honest conversations between friends studying at the university in order to build a picture of students’ lives and learn how to improve. The Guardian University award winners were announced online today (Wednesday 25 November), with Hallam winning the […]
The findings on how infants explore their environment using touch may represent a potential target for early intervention. New findings from researchers at Birkbeck, the University of East Anglia and the University of Cambridge show that the way babies’ brains respond to repeated touch predicts later behavioural features of autism […]
Harvard Law School’s innovative online course, ‘Zero-L’, will be offered free to undergraduates at Goldsmiths, University of London studying the LLB Law programme. Zero-L, taught by 18 leading Harvard Law faculty members, introduces foundational legal concepts, legal methodology, career orientation as well as subject-specific knowledge. Over the summer Harvard Law […]
A COURSE delivered by the University of Huddersfield that teaches healthcare professionals involved in wound management and infection prevention about antimicrobial resistance has been honoured for its achievements in helping to tackle one of the biggest threats facing modern day medicine. Entitled ‘Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management’, the course was highly […]
Students from a range of artistic disciplines shared their ideas for a new monument for Aldgate, exploring important questions about what we commemorate, why, and who gets to decide. Students from the Public Art & Performance MA at London Met’s School of Art, Architecture & Design came together this week to share […]
The declaration recognises the considerable impact the University has on the environment and the need to take decisive action in response to climate change. The University is asking staff and students to help develop a Climate Action Plan. A consultation, to be launched in January, will ask all sections of the […]
A Kingston University graduate, whose children’s books champion inclusivity and have helped young people deal with trauma, has been included in the BBC’s list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020. Syrian children’s author and illustrator Nadine Kaadan, who graduated with an MA in Communication […]
Thousands of jobs will be created and the region’s economy given a £1bn boost now the ground-breaking North Wales Growth Deal has been signed. Both the Welsh and UK Governments and the North Wales Economic Ambition Board today (Thursday) formally approved the five programmes that make up the Deal, a […]
