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The latest postgraduate study news from the UK
New build, new vision at DMU
Building on Leicester Business School’s recent top 10 ranking in the Sunday Times Good University Guide, a brand new £35 million building for the Faculty of Business and Law at De Montfort University (DMU) is due to open in September 2009. It will help realise our aim to be the ... More
Postgraduate Open Days at the University of Sussex
Management and Finance Interested in a career in the dynamic world of management and finance? If so, the University of Sussex offers a range of outstanding masters programmes that will help you fulfil your potential. To find out more and to book a place at the Open Day on 11 ... More
Crime under the microscope at Portsmouth
A forensic house which can be used to re-enact crimes including domestic violence and murder as well as cyber crimes such as identity theft is being used by hundreds of students at the University of Portsmouth. The house gives students from a wide range of courses – from computing and ... More
Essex receives £1m grant to study 60-year of British history
A University of Essex led census data project will create an unparalleled historical research resource that will transform the understanding of a Britain between the years of 1851-1911. The £1.06m project, a collaboration between the Essex History Department and the UK Data Archive (UKDA), will compile more than 200 million ... More
Liverpool to research possibility for national lung cancer screening programme
In a Liverpool Daily Post article dated 9 January, the possible development of a future national lung cancer screening programme is acknowledged. Researchers at the University of Liverpool will begin a study to assess the feasibility of implementing a broad-based, national screening trial for lung cancer. The study has been ... More
Gloucestershire graduates enjoy 97 percent employability
According to a recently released report by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) the University of Gloucestershire finds itself ranked 8th out of 160 Higher Education institutions in percentage of recent graduates employed. This substantial ranking marks the University of Gloucestershire as one of the leading universities in terms of graduate ... More
Aberdeen offers scholarship for American MA applicants
The Scotland USA Graduate Scholarship is aimed at US Nationals applying for full-time MA programmes at the University of Aberdeen. This exciting scholarship opportunity is open to all US Nationals and is aimed at encouraging bright, talented and hard working individuals to live, work and study in Scotland. Awards are ... More
Bangor alumni wins coveted Golden Globe for Best Drama
At the recent Golden Globe Awards Ceremony held in Los Angeles, Bangor University alumni Danny Boyle’s most recent film Slumdog Millionaire received the award for Best Film. Boyle graduated from Bangor University with a degree in English & Drama in 1978 and the staff at the University's College of Arts ... More
University of Bath administrator setting example by pledging to reduce and reuse
A staff member at the University of Bath is starting her second year of abstaining from shopping, in a personal bid to help the environment. Christine Bone, an administrator and student on the School of Management’s MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice, has committed herself to ‘compacting’, a lifestyle movement ... More
Bath Spa University trainee teachers experiment with ‘saturation teaching’
A group of trainee teachers at Bath Spa University are helping one classroom, raising the pupil/teacher ratio to 1.6 to 1, saturating the class with teaching. The trainee teachers have been drafted into the same classroom all at the same time to help 14-year-old children at a comprehensive school in ... More
Indian spacecraft launches Brunel project into orbit
Two academics from the School of Engineering and Design at Brunel University saw their work launched into space recently on the Chandrayaan-1 satellite, India’s first unmanned Moon mission. Dr David Smith and PhD student Jason Gow have been involved in developing the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) lunar science instrument, which ... More
