University of Liverpool spin out company secures £300k to develop indoor air pollution technology CageCapture, a new spin out company at the University of Liverpool has secured a total of £298,754 funding from Innovate UK […]
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University of Exeter: Former member of IT department jailed for selling drugs to students A member of the IT department at the University of Exeter has been sentenced to prison for selling drugs to students […]
Exhibition Celebrates 150 Years of Female Students at Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is opening an exhibition commemorating 150 years since women were first allowed to study at the University. Women were first admitted into the University’s Girton College back in 1869, but it […]
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University of Glasgow: University Owns Up to Slavery Wealth The ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow Report’, published last month, has revealed that the University of Glasgow received as much as £200 million […]
Oxbridge Accused of “Social Apartheid”
Oxford and Cambridge University, often perceived as the most prestigous academic institutions in the country, are being accused of ‘social apartheid’ after failing to admit a single black student to a number of their colleges. One […]
Elite Universities Lobby Others to Bear Brunt of Cuts
After discussion within the government regarding university funding, some Russell Group universities have suggested that more modern establishments should drop their fees, as they can afford to be on the receiving end of cuts as […]
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University of Oxford: Oxford College bans Christian Union from Fresher’s Fair Balliol Christian Union was told it was not allowed representatives at a fresher’s fair because the college’s student body (JCR) wanted the fair to […]
Tories Cut Ties With University Groups
The Conservative Party are cutting their ties with all university groups after a number of incidents caused negative backlash towards their party. It follows a recommendation from an internal report and suggests the party is […]
Campus Watch: Cambridge students warned not to wear college gowns over fears they may be face attack
Dr Paul Hartle, an English fellow at St Catherine’s college, expressed his concerns following an assault of a Cambridge student cycling across the city centre wearing college attire. Students were urged to refrain from wearing […]
Campus Watch: Cambridge women overtake men in successful applications for the first time
UCAS figures show that despite fewer female students applying this year a higher proportion of women received offers over men. Almost 900 fewer women than men applied to the University of Cambridge compared to the […]
Campus Watch: Cambridge University accused of covering up anti-Semitic attacks
At the end of October in the graduate student union at Cambridge University, three Jewish students wearing kippahs were verbally and physically abused as they were leaving the private party for the sporting societies of […]
Campus Watch: Cambridge students slammed for holding drinking initiation on remembrance Sunday
We often hear the phrase, ‘there’s a time and a place’ and, evidently, a sombre square opposite a church on Remembrance Sunday is not the time nor the place to hold a noisy, boozy sports […]