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Unearthing new skills

10 October 2018

Passion for archaeology sets retired science teacher on new path of discovery

Path to success

3 October 2018

Record number of adult learners progress from ‘pathway’ programme to degree

Great Expectations? The Evolution of Education through Five Generations of Women

20 August 2018

Continuing and Professional Education tutor, Dr Alex Phillips, reflects on the huge social, political, and cultural changes that have impacted upon the lives of women over the last hundred years.

Academic excellence for mum who juggled studies with raising a young family

22 July 2018

Academic excellence for mum who juggled studies with raising a young family

Dr Emma Yhnell, from the University’s Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, has been chosen by the British Science Association (BSA) to deliver one of this year’s prestigious Award Lectures.

Finding a place to belong: a working-class lecturer’s journey

2 May 2018

In the 1990s, I was a working-class kid, from a council estate just outside Oxford, where no one went to sixth form, let alone university. I remember having a massive silver sports bag, a huge purple puffy coat, and a perm.