A leading research-intensive university, the University of Birmingham is a vibrant, global community and an internationally-renowned institution, in the top 20 in the UK and 100 globally. With approximately 28,000 students and 6,000 members of staff, its work brings people from more than 150 countries to Birmingham.
The University of Birmingham has been challenging and developing great minds for more than a century. Characterised by a tradition of innovation, research at Birmingham has broken new ground, pushed forward the boundaries of knowledge and made an impact on people’s lives.
We continue this tradition today and have ambitions for a future that will embed our work and recognition of the Birmingham name on the international stage.
Universities are never complete. They develop as new challenges and opportunities occur. At the University of Birmingham we innovate, we push the frontiers of understanding; we ask new research questions, we turn theory through experiment into practice – because that’s what great universities do.
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are entering the last week of campaigning.
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Resolving the shortfall in university funding would require increasing tuition fees, government grants or international students, or reducing student places.
Labour leader Keir Starmer’s spending plans rely on economic growth.
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Growth has been elusive for UK governments for decades, and with Brexit challenges now part of the mix, Labour will have its work cut out to deliver on its pledges.
Craig Williams leaving 10 Downing Street in March.
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The UK Supreme Court has shown that misusing inside information to deliberately gain an objectively improper advantage, when gambling, constitutes cheating.
Long-term care dominates but we’re also spending more on self-funding care such as physios.
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A lack of dopamine seems to directly cause social problems.
A rise in people making the dangerous journey to the UK across the English Channel in small boats prompted a plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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Nando Sigona and Michaela Benson argue Britain’s Rwanda plan was brought about as a result of a Brexit-made policy failure. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Cleo Watson, a former aide to ex British prime minister Boris Johnson, launching her previous novel.
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Cleo Watson, former co-deputy chief of staff to Boris Johnson, was fined in the infamous “PartyGate” scandal involving gatherings held at government buildings while the United Kingdom was under a pandemic…
Volodymyr Zelensky and his friends in the west are failing to get support from the rest of the world for their demand that Russia completely withdraw from Ukraine.
By adulthood around 95% of people are infected with Epstein-Barr virus.
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Some government reforms to initial teacher training appear to have actually suppressed the number of people who can be trained.
A Canadian woman suffered for two years with episodes of dizziness and slurred speech, which doctors chalked up to drunkenness.
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A camp for displaced persons in Burkina Faso, May 2024.
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The European parliament is committed to a two-state solution, but many European countries are following the US lead and denying Palestinian statehood for now.
Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham