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Over 40,000 staff and students at The University of Manchester have been nominated for The Earthshot Prize for their practical action on climate change. ...

The Masood Entrepreneurship Centre’s annual student ideas competition is now open!Bright Ideas is a competition is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students new to enterprise and entrepreneurship who are interested in learning more about spott...

The University of Manchester has been ranked at number 38 in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which ranks the world’s leading higher education institutions. ...

Two University of Manchester academics have been named 2022 National Teaching Fellows (NTFs) by Advance HE for their outstanding contributions to teaching....

The University of Manchester has celebrated two weeks of summer graduations, as students who have just completed their courses join our community of more than 500,000 alumni – one of the largest of any university in the world. ...

A student with a terminal condition has shown incredible strength and triumphed over adversity by graduating from her degree at The University of Manchester....

The Department for Education has announced that the model piloted in the GM will be rolled out across the country...

The funding provided to PhD students is often not enough to cover the completion of a doctorate, the leaders of Europe’s top doctoral association have claimed at a conference hosted by The University of Manchester....

A medical student at the University of Manchester has gained a top prize in the prestigious 2022 Dr Falk-Pharma/Guts UK Charity national awards. Mr Oluwatobi Adegboye won the Medical Student Prize for his research project, which investigated the link...

Last week (6 May) saw a student-led walkathon take place with the aim of raising awareness of the global degradation of one of the Earth’s most essential life-giving attributes – soil....

The University of Manchester has remained a leader for impact towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals once again this year...

A student from Ethiopia who was able to study at The University of Manchester after being awarded an Equity and Merit Scholarship is already using his skills to make a difference in his home country....

Young people across Greater Manchester have places to spend their free time and feel they belong at their school, according to the results of a survey released today....

As the world’s eyes fell on Ukraine following the Russian invasion of its borders, staff from The University of Manchester’s International Programmes Office (IPO) had to focus their gaze on getting our students back to the UK.At the time of the initi...

Today, (Monday, 14 March) the University has published its initial findings into historic links with slavery, involving a number of early benefactors to its predecessor institutions, which went on to become The University of Manchester....

The University of Manchester is developing a new software engineering course that will help fill a skills gap in the IT sector whilst encouraging lifelong, flexible learning for those already in work....

The Russian government’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is of ever-increasing concern as the conflict and human tragedy escalates. Like everyone, l am appalled and deeply distressed. Such aggression and human suffering are never acceptable and are co...

Announced today, the ID Manchester project has taken another important step forward, with completion of the £1.5 billion joint venture between The University of Manchester and Bruntwood SciTech...

The University has announced the appointment of Carol Prokopyszyn as its new Chief Financial Officer. Carol will be starting in June and joins from the University of Dundee....

Congratulations to all of our alumni and supporters who have been recognised with a New Year Honour. ...

Student exchanges, joint research projects and mutual bids to work with some of the world’s biggest businesses and funders will be part of a new post-COVID alliance between the Universities of Manchester, Melbourne and Toronto. ...

As part of the North West Sexual Violence Awareness Week, The University is hosting wo events on the topics of harassment and sexual misconduct. These are a Photography Exhibition and Keynote and Panel Q&A Event on Wednesday 10 November 7-8:30pm  ...

England international footballer Marcus Rashford MBE received his honorary doctorate from The University of Manchester today (Thursday 7 October), at a special ceremony which took place at Old Trafford. ...

Renowned journalist, broadcaster and University of Manchester alumnus, David Aaronovitch, delivered the 2021 Foundation Day lecture as staff, students and dignitaries returned to the University’s grand Whitworth Hall to celebrate Foundation Day. ...

The University of Manchester, the University of Salford and Manchester Metropolitan University, working with CriticalArc, have created the Manchester SafeZone Alliance. A global first, the initiative enables the three security control rooms to extend...

The University of Manchester’s collaboration with Association of Commonwealth Universities means Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholars can drive progress on Sustainable Development Goals ...

Following this morning’s flooding incident on Oxford Road we are pleased to report that the flow of water has been stopped and a clean-up operation is now well underway.We are now in a position to reopen most of the buildings that were previously clo...

The University of Manchester is one of 18 institutional members of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) receiving significant funding to drive uptake of open research practices across the sector, furthering the UK’s position at the forefront of rigo...

The University of Manchester is ranked as a top-50 global institution, according to Times Higher Education (THE), it’s been announced today (Thursday, 2 September). ...

After a two year hiatus, the much-loved bluedot festival is set to return to Jodrell Bank on 21-24 July 2022 and the team have today announced an unmissable Björk performance as the Sunday night headline act. ...